Issue 4/2012
Living in the Archive
References to archives are a pronounced influence on contemporary artistic production. Such links back to the past come into play in a host of different ways – approaching historical references through the prism of reconstruction or transformation, inscribing these into particular genealogies, or explicitly opting to work on material from previously inaccessible or overlooked archives. It could well be claimed that archive work has become an essential prerequisite for contemporary creation, whilst at the same time constituting the most significant constraint upon such production. For »Living in the Archive«, to cite the title of this edition, is highly ambiguous. This is not merely because the constantly growling conglomerate of archives, for which no-one has an all-encompassing map any longer, is a shifting framework, within which our un... » read more
Net section
Digital world classes
On new interpretations of the »digital divide« and gradually emerging competition for the English language
Vera Tollmann
Media on media
On the topicality of Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s theses
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Post-print work
Post-digital publishing – between paper and pixel
Franz Thalmair
Facebook Art
Barış Acar
A Rat Becomes the Unit of Currency
»Cosmopolis« and the Logic of Late Capitalism
Amir Vodka
»Surveillance Chess«
An Action by the Zurich !Media Group Bitnik
Felix Stalder
Living in the Archive
Between critique and nostalgia
An interview with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez about the rampant »mal d’archive«
J. Emil Sennewald
»How the Work is Done« (2011)
Agnieszka Polska
Theoretically Chinese
On the Speculative Archiving of »Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters«
Simon Sheikh
The history of the panafrican culture festival and the difficulty of its archiving
Cédric Vincent
Art as Proposition
On the issue of the archive in the works of the Peruvian artist Teresa Burga
Nanna Lüth
Realist Socialism
Non-aligned modernism in ex-Yugoslavia is being both archived and activated — or reconciled with the »wild« reality of Belgrade
Jochen Becker
Privilege/Textszenario
Yvonne Rainer/Monika Bernold
Why does bourgeois society have such an urgent need for political art? Why now? And in which form?
A tour of Manifesta 9, dOCUMENTA (13) and the 7th Berlin Biennale
Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann
Artscribe
Christoph Draeger »A drift«
Stefanie Hoch
»Hungry City – Landwirtschaft und Essen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst«
Sabine Rohlf
Margaret Harrison »Preoccupy«
Michael Hauffen
2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Kaucyila Brooke »Do You Want Me To Draw You A Diagram?«
Quinn Latimer
Sergej Bratkow »Chapiteau Moscow«
Herwig G. Höller
»Geschichten im Konflikt«
Kerstin Stakemeier
»When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling (An Exhibition That Thinks About Edification)«
Monika Vykoukal
Morgan Fisher »The Frame and Beyond«
Christian Höller
»Reflecting Fashion – Kunst und Mode seit der Moderne«
Carola Platzek
Simon Starling in Kollaboration mit Superflex »Reprototypen, Triangulationen und Testverfahren«
Su-Ran Sichling
Geometrien des Zufalls – visionäre Bildarchitekturen
Roland Schöny
Books
Maria Theresia Litschauer:
Architekturen des Nationalsozialismus
Nina Schedlmayer
Thomas Flierl (Hg.):
Standardstädte
Matthias Dusini
Martin Beck (Hg.):
The Aspen Complex
Yuki Higashino
Tonto Comics :
Noise
Martin Reiterer
Sandra Bartoli, Ulrike Feser, Silvan Linden, Florian Wüst:
la zona
Michael Hauffen