Magic
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Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, this publication illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture’s tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in(...)
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Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, this publication illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture’s tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care.
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Art writing in crisis
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Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art, which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism,(...)
Art writing in crisis
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Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art, which in turn helps us to understand such crises. But art writing itself is in crisis. Newspapers and magazines offer fewer channels than ever for independent art criticism, persistent institutional biases exclude the positions of many, and a proliferation of platforms presents opportunities and challenges in equal measure. This volume presents writing by established and emerging writers who address the social and political dimensions of art and art writing in the contemporary context and the ways in which new art writing and publishing practices promote critical engagement among readerships as never before.
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Exhibition-ism
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In "Exhibition-ism," theorist and artist Mieke Bal develops the idea that exhibiting is a significant form of the contemporary. In an exhibition, visitors are in the actual company of artworks that can perform. This book considers recent shows of Bal’s own video work, and is framed by observations on contemporary sculpture’s response to classics of the form. Looking at(...)
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In "Exhibition-ism," theorist and artist Mieke Bal develops the idea that exhibiting is a significant form of the contemporary. In an exhibition, visitors are in the actual company of artworks that can perform. This book considers recent shows of Bal’s own video work, and is framed by observations on contemporary sculpture’s response to classics of the form. Looking at art as process, Bal makes the case that the being-together-in-time of an exhibition visit encourages and, if the curation is well-thought-out, can heighten the sense of the contemporaneity–art being more capable of this than anything else.
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Politics and Passions
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In 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe, ''Politics and passions: The stakes of democracy'' (2002). In the essay, Mouffe critiqued the then-dominant ‘beyond left and right’ politics of neoliberalism and warned of its dangers – the rise of right-wing populist parties. Fascinated by(...)
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Politics and Passions
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In 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe, ''Politics and passions: The stakes of democracy'' (2002). In the essay, Mouffe critiqued the then-dominant ‘beyond left and right’ politics of neoliberalism and warned of its dangers – the rise of right-wing populist parties. Fascinated by Mouffe’s strikingly prophetic ideas, as well as her bold call to fight the status quo in order to radicalise democracy and to prevent violence, Ostoya returned to the booklet in 2019. She composed for it a series of portraits based on sketches of people on the New York City subway and on reproductions of her paintings and collages from the preceding decade. She also conducted a conversation with Mouffe about the politics of the last forty years, about the contemporary moment and about art, which is included in this publication.
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The essays in this volume chronicle projects and ideas that analyze the nuances of spatial experience: reaching into the cracks of the body, probing the fuzzy borders of atmospheres, extending out across both geographical and epistemological coordinates. Like its predecessor, "Slow Reader", this new publication is intended to inspire both a different velocity of engaging(...)
Slow spatial reader: chronicles of radical affection
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The essays in this volume chronicle projects and ideas that analyze the nuances of spatial experience: reaching into the cracks of the body, probing the fuzzy borders of atmospheres, extending out across both geographical and epistemological coordinates. Like its predecessor, "Slow Reader", this new publication is intended to inspire both a different velocity of engaging the world and critical shifts in consciousness that only slow thinking and practice can provoke.
Théorie de l’art
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The pandemic has once made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how the emotions of loss need to be externalised. The laments are a formal device, used in many cultures to express and contain the(...)
Perfomring mourning: laments in contemporary art
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The pandemic has once made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how the emotions of loss need to be externalised. The laments are a formal device, used in many cultures to express and contain the emotions of grief. In a poetic, meandering, personal way Cools explores cultural habits, traditions, rituals, and artists' performances.
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Fidèle au rendez-vous
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Dans « Fidèle au rendez-vous, » l’écrivain interroge le monde visible et lui demande de révéler ses secrets. L’ouvrage, qui réunit vingt essais publiés en 1991, est l’occasion pour Berger de creuser sa réflexion sur la manière dont l’être humain appréhende et interprète ce qu’il voit. Le point de départ de chaque essai est une rencontre, à la fois intime et révélatrice.(...)
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Dans « Fidèle au rendez-vous, » l’écrivain interroge le monde visible et lui demande de révéler ses secrets. L’ouvrage, qui réunit vingt essais publiés en 1991, est l’occasion pour Berger de creuser sa réflexion sur la manière dont l’être humain appréhende et interprète ce qu’il voit. Le point de départ de chaque essai est une rencontre, à la fois intime et révélatrice. Au fil des chapitres, l’auteur se retrouve face aux peintures de Velásquez, de Goya, de Renoir, mais interroge également celles de Pollock, les sculptures d’Henry Moore ou encore l’extraordinaire palais du facteur Cheval. Toujours attentif à placer les œuvres et les artistes dans leur contexte, l’essayiste aborde à travers ces confrontations des questions aussi complexes que la montée et la chute des idéologies capitalistes et communistes, la sexualité, l’environnement et l’évolution, ou encore la nature du temps. Les textes interpellent, bousculent, questionnent. Ils nous encouragent à porter une attention accrue non seulement à ce qui nous entoure, mais également à la manière dont nous percevons les multiples rendez-vous – intimes, artistiques, imprévus – qui rythment nos vies. Une nouvelle façon, l’espère Berger, de nous faire réaliser la potentialité de chaque instant, et celle qui réside au fond de nous.
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On connaît Guy Debord pour avoir été poète, cinéaste, artiste, théoricien révolutionnaire, directeur de revue et fondateur de mouvements d’avant-garde. Mais il fut surtout stratège. Qu’entend-on par là? Que la poésie, le cinéma, la théorie, et l’avant-garde furent pour lui les moyens employés dans le cadre d’un conflit contre la société de son temps. Un objet en(...)
Le jeu de la guerre de Guy Debord : l'émancipation comme projet
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On connaît Guy Debord pour avoir été poète, cinéaste, artiste, théoricien révolutionnaire, directeur de revue et fondateur de mouvements d’avant-garde. Mais il fut surtout stratège. Qu’entend-on par là? Que la poésie, le cinéma, la théorie, et l’avant-garde furent pour lui les moyens employés dans le cadre d’un conflit contre la société de son temps. Un objet en particulier, Le Jeu de la guerre, dont la vocation était d’aiguiser le sens stratégique et la conscience d’une incessante guerre à mener, répond de cet objectif. Debord conçoit dans le milieu des années 1950 un jeu, qui se présente sous la forme d’un plateau quadrillé et de pions représentant les diverses unités d’une armée, qu’il pratique et cherche à diffuser tout au long de sa vie. En tant que modélisation de la guerre, le jeu permet de retrouver la charge critique des recherches situationnistes sur l’espace, la cartographie, les labyrinthes et le ludique en général. À l’heure où le design – qu’il soit d’objets, de systèmes, d’interfaces ou d’expérience – tend à envahir les discours et englober de plus en plus de champs de l’activité créative, technique, sociale et économique, et où l’art peine à penser les conditions de sa validité émancipatrice, Emmanuel Guy propose à travers cette analyse une relecture de l’œuvre critique de Guy Debord sous l’angle de la stratégie. Tiré de sa thèse de doctorat, ce livre offre un regard nouveau sur la vie de l’un des plus grands intellectuels de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle.
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Following ''Institutions by Artists: Volume One'' and the eponymous convention from which both volumes take their name, this second anthology of texts continues the work of unpacking artists’ relationships to—and creation of—a larger set of structures that increasingly regulate, demarcate, and codify contemporary artistic practice: centres of economic and cultural(...)
Institutions by Artists: Volume 2
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Following ''Institutions by Artists: Volume One'' and the eponymous convention from which both volumes take their name, this second anthology of texts continues the work of unpacking artists’ relationships to—and creation of—a larger set of structures that increasingly regulate, demarcate, and codify contemporary artistic practice: centres of economic and cultural capital; state and private apparatus; and sites of display, storage and production.
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Services Working Group
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This publication presents complete transcripts from the ground-breaking working group on labour relations and institutional governance in the arts organized in 1994 by Helmut Draxler and Andrea Fraser at the Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg.
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This publication presents complete transcripts from the ground-breaking working group on labour relations and institutional governance in the arts organized in 1994 by Helmut Draxler and Andrea Fraser at the Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg.
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