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Spike has turned ten. We are celebrating with an extra-thick issue revolving around the theme of time.
New York-based artist Piotr Uklanski visits Hermann Nitsch in his castle, where this legendary figure of Austrian art talks about religion, death, and painting. Choreographers Meg Stuart and Adam Linder meet for an interview about the future of dance, while Joanna Fiduccia looks at the importance of the body in the Californian painter Laura Owens‘s recent work. Jon Leon profiles the controversial filmmaker Romain Gavras,whose commercials and music videos antagonize the near-mystical underpinning of consumer behavior; and Chris Kraus explores the renewal of interest in writer and ’70s punk icon Kathy Acker.
“Justin Bieber losing his swag” is the starting point for a reflection about the current “shituation” of art by Bruce Hainley. Spike-editor Timo Feldhaus writes about the desire for proximity and directness in contemporary performance art, and new media theorist Jussi Parikka sees an alternative to the singular forward drive of accelerationism in the multiple temporalities of media archaeology. There is a special focus on the city where Spike has its roots: 12 protagonists of the Vienna art scene including Heimo Zobernig, Peter Pakesch and Hubert Klocker create a collaborative portrait of the city.
In addition, Daniel Baumann remembers David Hammons‘s solo show Blues and the Abstract Truth (1997) at Kunsthalle Bern, and Sarah Rogers writes about the more than 600,000 photographs amassed by the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. Philippe Pirotte, Dean of the Städelschule in Frankfurt, presents his Curator’s Key, while Matias Faldbakken lists his Artist’s Favourites and Adriana Lara stages an intervention in the magazine’s pages. Plus an image portfolio addressing the question of existence by Anne Collier, Šejla Kamerić, Christian Mayer, Torbjørn Rødland and Sue Williams.
The reviews section features Korakrit Arunanondchai at the Mistake Room in Los Angeles; Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum in New York; Yvonne Rainer at Raven Row in London; Camille Henrot at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen; Le Mouvement in the city of Biel; nature after nature at the Fridericianum in Kassel; Pictures, Before and After – An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp at Galerie Buchholz in Berlin; Isa Genzken at Kunsthalle Wien, and much more.
Ten years have gone by, and there is much more to come. October sees the opening of our new editorial office on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, where we will soon start an exciting program of exhibitions and talks.
Spike 41 will be available at newsstands outside of Europe in approximately one week. Feel free to order it directly from us.
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