Art in the Post-Periphery
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ARTMargins is a new triannual publication that invites researchers and practitioners who operate under the conditions of neoliberal capitalism to critically reflect on what we call the “thickened global margin,” encompassing historical, geographical, as well as philosophical or theoretical post-peripheries. A far cry from the emphatic claims to homogeneity and universalism that characterized postmodern globalism, such an agenda implies a shift in the definition of what it means to speak to, or from, the margins: away from the binary center/margin model (East/West, North/South) that dominated modernism and postmodernism alike to one that conceives of the periphery as a zone of contact in which the possibilities for a different future may be explored. Marginality, we submit, is less a condition or geographical given than a tactic that intervenes in dominant theoretical, historical, and interpretative models and methodologies. The margin, we argue, interferes surgically in a core text the way in which words scribbled into the margins of a written or printed page may intervene in a central scripture. It is in this spirit, and not with a view to correcting history, that ARTMargins hopes to offer a forum to those who are currently trying to pry open and reclaim the archives, historical legacies, and artistic and political traditions that for decades have been kept, or continue to be kept, under official lock and key.
Editors: Sven Spieker; Octavian Eʂanu, Angela Harutyunyan, Karen Benezra
Forthcoming in August 2012: Special Issue on Artists’ Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Content
- “Something Unnameable in Common”: Translocal Collaboration at the Beau Geste Press by Zanna Gilbert
- Artistic Networks: From Effect to Affect and Its Translation by Paulina Varas Alarcón
- NET, Dialogue, Responsibility, and the Third Circle: Jarosław Kozłowski in Conversation with Klara Kemp-Welch
- International Hungary! György Galántai’s Networking Strategies by Jasmina Tumbas
- A Window and a Basement: Negotiating Hospitality in La Galerie des Locataires and Podroom—The Working Community of Artists by Ivana Bago
- Mail Art: A Bridge to Freedom by Clemente Padín
- The Invisible Artists, or The Net Without a Fisherman … (My Life in Mail Art) by Graciela G. Gutiérrez Marx
Other content
Article: Media Art in Argentina: Ideology and Critique “Después del Pop” by Karen Benezra
Review Article: In the Wake of “In the Wake of the Global Turn” by Aruna D’Souza
Document: From Visible and Invisible (1953) by Dolfi Trost (Introduction: Catherine Hansen)
Project: Black Sea by Aras Özgün
Subscription info
Individual one-year subscriptions, including online access, are only 50 USD. ARTMargins offers discounted subscriptions for customers in certain global regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, and North Africa.
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