DIAPHANES No. 6/7: Specters of the Avant-Garde [electronic resource].

Diaphanes 2019

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This double issue summons the specters of the avant-garde, dissects its corpse, which was never found, but still radiates the black light of its visions and phantasms. Was the failure of the avant-gardes unavoidable? What remains of their goal of eliminating art in a revolution of life? What can be learned from the tension between a radical urge to form and political action, between bright visions of progress and dull resentments? Avant-garde in the 21st century? Nothing more than borrowed gestures, appropriated knick-knacks? A vintage label for art collectors and leftist veterans, material for the latest turncoats? And what can “transgressive heroism” achieve in the light of an excessive media spectacle that plays by every trick in the artists’ book? Discoteca Flaming Star say Yes and NoBorisNo, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem finds old forms for new situations and talks with a jolly gravedigger. Barbara Basting cures her addiction to an -ism, and Zoran Terzić says merdre! to today’s pervasive decerebration. Paul Edwards investigates the connection between the avant-garde and fascism in the work of Wyndham Lewis. In the special insert, Antoine d’Agata photographs a ghostly France and discovers the emptiness and explosiveness behind the lines. DIAPHANES 6/7 stands in the harsh light of aesthetic mourning, dreaming of a rear-guard of the many, conjugating the past into the future perfect.
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Art and history
Art and literature
Historical Materialism

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Michael Heitz
Hendrik Rohlf
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
Pinar Karabulut
Hayat Erdogan
Tine Milz
Julia Reichert
Discoteca Flaming Star
Philippe Sollers
Maja Bajević
Malte Fabian Rauch
Raphaëlle Milone
Barbara Basting
Jean-Luc Nancy
Zoran Terzić
Wang Qingsong
Antoine D’agata
Sandra Frimmel
Paul Edwards
Damian Christinger
Soham Gupta
Clayton Eshleman
Elena Vogman
Andreas Reihse
Beate Söntgen
Tanya Tagaq
Hun Kyu Kim
Michael Turnbull
Jordan Lee Schnee
Dorothée Fraleux
Marylise Dumont
Laurent Folliot
Catherine Lupton
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