On the occasion of its 20th anniversary Texte zur Kunst organized an international symposium at Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) in Berlin on December 11, 2010. Under the programmatic title, “Where do you stand, colleague?”, lectures and panels addressed the fundamental question of the relationship between art criticism and social critique. Issue #81, the first of the third decade of Texte zur Kunst, compiles all seventeen lectures and statements, slightly altered for print. The symposium “Where do you stand, colleague?” and accordingly this issue as well was divided into three sections, each with a thematic focus discussing approaches and methods important to Texte zur Kunst in view of their relevance to the present. Plus reviews from Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, Cambridge, Stockholm, Vienna, Geneva, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Munich, and Madrid Exclusive new artists’ editions: Carsten Höller and Jutta Koether ENGLISH CONTENT PREFACE INTRODUCTION ISABELLE GRAW ANDRÉ ROTTMANN DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN NEW SPIRIT OF CRITICISM? THE BIOPOLITICAL TURN IN PERSPECTIVE MARTIN SAAR: INTRODUCTION SABETH BUCHMANN: THE DOUBLE-LIFE OF KUNSTKRITIK LUC BOLTANSKI: ART WITHOUT CRITIQUE? FRANCO BERARDI: EUROP`INSURRECTION: SEVEN POINTS ANDRÉ ROTTMANN: NETWORKS, TECHNIQUES, INSTITUTIONS: ART HISTORY IN OPEN CIRCUITS BETWEEN SPECIFITY AND CONTEXT. SOCIAL ART HISTORY REVISITED SUSANNE LEEB: INTRODUCTION BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH: QUE FAIRE? ISABELLE GRAW: SOCIAL ART HISTORY AND THE RISE OF THE SOCIAL ANDREA FRASER: SPEAKING OF THE SOCIAL WORLD… FROM THE ANTI-AESTHETIC TO AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE? CHRISTOPH MENKE: INTRODUCTION JUTTA KOETHER: THE THIRST FOR AESTHETICS OR IT`S A CRUEL CARE OR ICH GLAUB’AN GAR NICHTS (I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANYTHING) T.J. CLARK: THE END OF ANTI-AESTHETIC JULIANE REBENTISCH: ON THE ALLICANCE BETWEEN THE ANTI-AESTHETIC AND THE AESTHETIC OF EXPERIENCE HELMUT DRAXLER: WHERE DO YOU STAND, COLLEAGUE? REVIEWS MICHAEL SANCHEZ LUXURY DUMP On Rob Pruitt at Gavin Brown`s Enterprise and Maccarone, New York PETRA LANGE-BERNDT TEST SITE BOHEMIA On “Mildred´s Lane” by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion, Pennsylvania ANDREW STEFAN WEINER QUESTIONABLE IMAGES On “The Image in Question: War – Media – Art” at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge LIZ KOTZ PALERMO IN LOS ANGELES On “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977″ at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CAROLINE BUSTA LEAP INTO THE CURATORIAL VOID On “Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective” at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ARTISTS’ EDITIONS CARSTEN HÖLLER “Somagabel (Soma Fork)”, 2011 JUTTA KOETHER “BERLINER SCHLÜSSEL #17″, 2010/2011 For additional information, orders or subscriptions please contact TEXTE ZUR KUNST STRAUSBERGER PLATZ 19 10243 BERLIN Germany TEL +49 (0)30 – 30 10 453 45 FAX +49 (0)30 – 30 10 453 44 editionen@textezurkunst.de www.textezurkunst.de