What Art Can Do
The following conversation took place on January 1, 2017.Hans Ulrich Obrist: It is the beginning of 2017. What will happen?Alexander Kluge: It has been one hundred years since the Russian Revolution....
View ArticleGeontologies: The Concept and Its Territories
Many attribute the crumbling of the self-evident distinction between Life and Nonlife to the challenge that climate change poses in the geological era of the Anthropocene. Since Eugene Stoermer first...
View ArticleThe Great Transition: The Arts and Radical System Change
With the rise of Trumpism, the US finds itself in nothing less than a state of emergency. We face a conflictual and volatile regime of post-liberal plutocracy dedicated to extreme wealth accumulation,...
View ArticleDissenting Voices of the Unwashed, Disobedient, Noncitizens, and Exiles in...
On the morning of December 3, 2008, the Losheng Preservation Movement—ever expanding since it began in 2002—set out to protest a joint proposal made in 1994 by Taiwanese state and local political...
View ArticleAn Inversion
In his 2015 article, “Against the Anthropocene: A Neo-Materialist Perspective,” historian Tim LeCain argues that the term Anthropocene succumbs, however unwittingly, to the hubris of anthropocentrism....
View ArticleAnti-Shows
A long time ago, thousands of young people from all over the world—mainly from socialist countries, but also from sympathetic countries and from capitalist countries sent by leftist parties—were...
View ArticleArt, Technology, and Humanism
In the public imagination, technology is mostly associated with technological revolutions and the acceleration of technological change. But, actually, the goal of technology is completely the...
View ArticleThe Great Accelerator
On September 26, 2014, a blog post on a Ukrainian news website claimed to report on an overheard phone conversation between someone fleeing the war-torn region of Donbas and a friend who had stayed...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Feedback
Today, outside of a few specialized applications, the would-be metascience of cybernetics is remembered, if at all, only as a hazy prelude to modern computing and information technology. But in the...
View ArticleThe Genesis of Technicity
This study postulates that technicity is one of the two fundamental phases of the mode of existence of the whole constituted by man and the world. By phase, we mean not a temporal moment replaced by...
View ArticleTracing Avant-Garde Museology
If you have “avant-garde” and “museology” or “museum exhibitions” in one sentence, especially if that sentence is in English, the first name that comes to mind is El Lissitzy and his collaboration...
View ArticleOn Ketamine and Added Value
Artists like to role-play scenarios in order to max-out concepts to their logical ends. Art is the space where practices that cannot function within generic constraints run up against the walls and...
View ArticleFog or Smoke? Colonial Blindness and the Closure of Representation
Earlier this year, the Juan Rulfo Foundation withdrew from its plan to participate in the 9th annual Book and Rose Fair at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The Foundation objected to...
View ArticleART+ART: The Avant-Garde in the Streets
In March 1977, Koorosh Shishegaran created ART+ART, a poster he mailed to several recipients including major newspapers in Tehran. The bilingual poster asserts that “K. Shishegaran’s works” are...
View ArticleCosmic Catwalk and the Production of Time
A painting by Klee called Angelus Novus depicts an angel moving backwards, away from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched....
View ArticleThe Fourfold Articulation
The current rolling crises of liberal democracy has renewed the significance of formal critique as a critique of forms. This critique careens forward in spasms; sputtering into vision as the governing...
View ArticleLove is the Message, The Plan is Death
Arthur Jafa’s seven-minute short film Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death cuts together footage of Charles Ramsey; Swag Surf, a black variation on the wave at sports games; Fred Hampton’s widow...
View ArticleDmitri Prigov: Haunted Spaces
Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones. —Bertolt Brecht In the 1970s Dmitry Prigov became known in Moscow’s literary and artistic milieus mainly as a poet. However, from the...
View ArticleOn Being Present Where You Wish to Disappear
In 2009 the Centre Pompidou in Paris opened an exhibition called “Voids: A Retrospective.” Through works such as Yves Klein’s The Specialization of Sensibility in Raw Material State into Stabilized...
View ArticleMore Than One Language
I don’t know what “one’s own” means and I’d like to begin with a different question: What is a maternal language? I will then try to understand what happens when you speak more than one language, when...
View ArticleThe Missing Front Line
In the past five years, Chinese art has become triply deficient: lacking a questioning approach, lacking a sense of history, and lacking a view of values. The majority of artworks, art projects, and...
View ArticleHopeful Resilience
From the tailings of large open pit mines and omnipresent data centers to the over-concentration of capital in the hands of the few, we appear to be in an age of accumulation, feeling the weight of...
View ArticleFrom Architecture to Kainotecture
All the architecture that we know of is architecture of the Holocene. Architecture has had to deal with a lot of unpredictable factors, but the climate of the Holocene has always been an assumed...
View ArticleJustification for Inscription
In order to inscribe a site in the World heritage list, the property should have outstanding universal values, defined as “cultural and/or natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend...
View ArticleDescription
The political and social evolution of Dheisheh has been inscribed in its urban form. Dheisheh is no longer made of tents. It is a completely original urban structure that has been assembled and...
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