Issue 2/2008
Secret Publics
The public sphere is increasingly organised along fragmentary lines. In the realm of art too a division into partly overlapping and partly diverging partial publics has long taken the place of an all-encompassing public sphere. Frequently involuntary limitations prevent a certain threshold of attention from being crossed, yet frequently too self-selecting circles form and seek their target audience in certain highly specific particular interest groups. The phenomenon of a »secret public« assumes a special status in this context, with a broadly-defined range extending from self-organised participatory fora to forms of clandestine community. »Secret Publics« focuses on the diverse manifestations of these kinds of minority partial and counter-publics, which – of necessity or intentionally – operate beneath the general threshold of perception. ... » read more
Net section
Ecology: here and now!
On media and net projects focusing on the idea of »eco-media art«
Rachel Mader
Redefinition of the »conspire« concept
Alessandro Ludovico
Collective Reception
The »Department of Reading« explores new reading practices
Tim Stüttgen
Optically correct?
Videos on the net
Vera Tollmann
In the shadow of digital dynamisation
Determining the contemporary position of Sound Art
Roland Schöny
Futures & Pasts
The contemporary relevance of »No Wave« and »New York Noise«
Christian Höller
Secret Publics
Positive Disagreement
Interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty
Catherine Halpern
Public secrets – secret publics
On the stability of prison society
Sharon Daniel
Katrina Daschner
Visual contribution
Patricia Grzonka
Mao repackaged
Logically derived resistance against a merciless democratic war
Hans-Christian Dany
Vague Terrain
France\'s dynamism comes from the margins
Jens Emil Sennewald
In the backyards of our neighbours
On artistic appropriation and shifting the functionality of public space
Christina Töpfer
Fake It till You Make It
The role of self-fulfilling prophecies in the art field
Cédric Vincent
Young, Gifted, and almost Black
The Graz exhibition »I am not afraid« on the activities of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg showcases committed photography in the post-apartheid era
Jochen Becker
Patriotism Today?
A New-Russian private foundation shows artistic traces of the »Red Army«
Herwig G. Höller
The Psychopathology of Eurocentricity
On Lisl Ponger’s exhibition in the Landesgalerie Linz
Christian Kravagna
Marc Adrian
1930-2008
Peter Weibel
Artscribe
Manfred Kuttner - »Works from 1961–64«
Naoko Kaltschmidt
Josephine Meckseper
Hans-Christian Dany
»Forms of Resistance. Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present«
Jens Kastner
Paola Pivi
»It’s a Cocktail Party«
Gislind Nabakowski
Heidrun Holzfeind / Katerina Šedá
Nicola Hirner
»Derek Jarman: A Brutal Beauty«
Jörn Ebner
»Les Inquiets«
Jens Emil Sennewald
»Bodypoliticx«
Christa Benzer
Lust am Verrat
Stellungswechsel in Feminismus, Performance and Film
Dietmar Schwärzler
»Wilhelm Reich – Sex! Pol! Energy!«
Judith Fischer
»Peculiar Machines«
Michael Hauffen
Self-organised (auxiliary) showrooms
A walk around Vienna’s »alternative spaces« scene
Christa Benzer
»Orients sans frontières, sur les traces de la Croisière Jaune«
Jens Emil Sennewald
Books
Christian Eigner/Peter Weibel (Hg.):
UN/FAIR TRADE.
Jens Kastner
Carmen Mörsch, Landesverband der Kunstschulen Niedersachsen (Hg.):
Schnittstelle Kunst – Vermittlung
Susanne Lummerding
Marianne Pieper, Thomas Atzert, Serhat Karakayali, Vassilis Tsianos (Hg.):
Empire und die biopolitische Wende
Sebastian Sierra Barra
Günter Amendt:
Die Legende vom LSD
Matthias Dusini
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, aus d. Engl. v. Alexander Joskowicz und Stefan Nowotny:
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Sabine Rohlf
Felicity D. Scott:
Architecture or Techno-utopia.
Martin Beck
Hans Christian Dany:
Speed.
Matthias Dusini