Issue 1/2009
Art on Demand
The art market boom of the last few years triggered a series of pressing questions before the initial signs of the global financial crisis threatened to spill over into this sphere. These interrogations seem to lead us beyond purely economic considerations, not merely in terms of the cult and fetishistic character of artistic commodities, but also taking into account art’s increasingly comprehensive range of functions. How can it be, for example, that nowadays art and the production of culture are viewed as a veritable panacea in many spheres of life and social interaction? How does it come to pass that art not only assumes the role of purportedly being nothing but a disinterested instrument used simply for decorative purposes, in both the private and the public sphere, whilst at the same time its critical potential is also increasingly exp... » read more
Net section
Anna and Paul Shut Up
On the timeliness of cybernetic control metaphors in the cultural industry
Hans-Christian Dany
Topographies of a networked world order
The »Networked Cultures« project in Open Space, Vienna
Franz Thalmair
Unwanted positivism
On the term »post-medium condition« in the work of Rosalind Krauss
Max Hinderer
Futures & Pasts
Bob Dylan’s Films and the Byways of Art-Music Cinema
Christian Höller
Cube-shaped receivers
An exhibition recapitulates milestones in the development of an art of sound
Rahma Khazam
Shopdropping
Violating the Consumer Temples
Alessandro Ludovico
Art on Demand
Die Idee der »schönen« Freiheit
Beti Zerovc
Art with (or without) the market
Alessandro Ludovico
Un-Collectable Art
The Australian network »un-collectable artists« and a critical urban development project in Sydney
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Architectures of spectacle
Facets of the exhibition boom in South Korea and China in the context of the strategy of globalism
Anna Schneider
Mut und Vorstellungskraft
Khwezi Gule
Gatekeeping Africa
Sharlene Khan
Breaking out of isolation
In Libya a cultural springtime will not be long in coming
Christine Wagner
Steine für Amerika
Peter Friedl
Anormale Wirkungsweisen
Lukasz Ronduda
Prekäre Trennlinie, an welcher Visualität steht und fällt
Gislind Nabakowski
Artscribe
Mark Wallinger
Yvonne Volkart
»Artist-Citizen«
Hedwig Saxenhuber
»In the Desert of Modernity –
Colonial Planning and After«
Karin Rebbert
»BOOM-BOOM«
Georg Schöllhammer
Martin Beck
Jörn Ebner
»To Show Is To Preserve – Figures and Demonstrations«
Hans-Christian Dany
Catherine Opie
Ulrike Müller
Carte Blanche à Jeremy Deller
Jens Emil Sennewald
»Blacked Out. George Cup & Steve Elliott. Retrospektive«
Naoko Kaltschmidt
Books
Bill Drummond :
17
Herwig G. Höller
Gerald Raunig:
Tausend Maschinen. Eine kleine Philosophie der Maschine als soziale Bewegung
Hans-Christian Dany
Guy Delisle:
Burma Chronicles
Martin Reiterer
Emmanuel Guibert/Didier Lefèvre/Frédéric Lemercier:
Der Fotograf
Martin Reiterer
Marie-Luise Angerer/Christiane König (Hg.):
Gender Goes Life
Gislind Nabakowski
Paula-Irene Villa (Hg.):
schön normal
Gislind Nabakowski
Hito Steyerl:
Die Farbe der Wahrheit
Kathi Hofer
Gabu Heindl (Hg.):
Arbeit Zeit Raum
Jens Kastner
Michael Ponstingl:
Wien im Bild
Tania Hölzl/Michael Manfé