Issue 4/2006
Tactics/Topographies
A tactic, wrote the French philosopher Michel de Certeau, is »a calculus which cannot count on a ›proper‹, or thus on a border-line distinguishing the other as a visible totality«. Tactics, whether they are seen as an artistic approach or a political procedure, must thus confront what is there, have to make do with the existing conditions of time and space, without there being a clear division between the areas of identity and difference. As a consequence, questions regarding borderlines or their transgression can only become relevant when a tactical calculus is applied to a particular spatio-temporal context. The issue »Tactics/Topographies« takes this idea of de Certeau and attempts to reflect upon it further in political and cultural dimensions. With regard to the first aspect, it comes as no little surprise, for example, that tactica... » read more
Net section
Clips & Tracks
A summer show at Kunstraum Innsbruck featured previews of the »art_clips« compilation coming out this fall
Thomas Edlinger
Military exclusion zones and search art
The Internet platform »Zone*Interdite« by the artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud
Villö Huszai
Naturalis Electronica
The 2006 Italia Interferenze festival
Alessandro Ludovico
Next to, above, over and all tangled up
The »networks behind the Net« were the focus of »paraflows 06,« the new annual convention for digital art and cultures in Vienna
Christa Benzer
The Origin and Meaning of žž
Weblogs particularly popular on the Russian cultural scene
Herwig G. Höller
Who Killed the JAMs!
Adbusting, open content and the recent campaigns by the British artist James Cauty
Benjamin Paul
Lost and Found (XIII)
After 25 years, the Berlin »Geniale Dilletanten« festival has been made accessible in image and sound for the first time
Christian Höller
Tactics/Topographies
Thanatotactics
Eyal Weizman
Topography and Terror
Photographer Heimrad Bäcker rediscovered post-war modernism’s inventory of forms in the traces left by concentration camps
Georg Schöllhammer
Looking towards the Outside
Interview with Walter Benjamin on the reproduction and reproducibility of modernism exhibitions
Beti Zerovc
»Seek the Extremes, That’s Where All the Action Is!«
The rediscovery of the work of Lee Lozano
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Radical Unease
An exhibition on the filmmaker Kurt Kren in Atelier Augarten in Vienna
Dietmar Schwärzler
Dashed Expectations
Lean-Luc Godard’s »Voyage(s) en utopie« and two other »auteur« exhibitions in Paris
Jason Simon
Dziga Vertov – a media artist?
On the contemporary relevance of the Russian avant-garde filmmaker
Christa Blümlinger
Rumor (June 14, 1969)
Bildstrecke
Martin Beck
Black Sun of Renewal
The magazine »Souffles« made an important contribution to modern Moroccan culture in the sixties
Toni Maraini
The New Global Urban Order
Slums and the European city
Jochen Becker
Cadaquez/Spain, Club Mediterrané
Markus Weisbeck
Artscribe
Melik Ohanian
»Somewhere in Time«
Christian Höller
Róza El-Hassan – Retrospective
Dora Hegyi
»The Eighth Square.
Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960«
Yvonne P. Doderer
»EASTinternational 2006«
Monika Vykoukal
»Soleil Noir. Depression and Society«
Monika Vykoukal
Eske Schlüters
Martin Beck/Max Hinderer
Penelope Georgiou, Stefanie Seibold
Christa Benzer
Isa Genzken
Petra Löffler
»Hidden Hi/stories-Remapping Mozart«
Susanne Neuburger
Books
Jean-Luc Nancy:
Evidenz des Films - Abbas Kiarostami
Annett Busch
Laura Mulvey:
Death 24x a Second
Annett Busch
Michael Leicht:
Warum Katie Tingle sich weigerte, ordentlich zu posieren, und Walker Evans darüber nicht grollte.
Jens Kastner
Ingo Giezendanner:
GRR30: urban recordings
Gislind Nabakowski
Sven Lütticken:
Secret Publicity
André Rottmann
Saskia Sassen:
Territory, Authority, Rights
Krystian Woznicki