December 2011 / Issue No. 84 out now
conceived by Sabeth Buchmann, Isabelle Graw, and Juliane Rebentisch
“FEMINISM!”
Issue 84 of “Texte zur Kunst” inquires into the current state of feminism. The movement associated with the term has reached a precarious moment in its history. There is the assertion that the demands of feminism have been largely met through establishing gender mainstreaming programs and institutionalizing gender studies in universities. The mood has never been more “post-feminist” or “post-gender” than today. However, this zeitgeist is also the symptom of an ideology purporting to be “post-ideological”, according to which there is no social inequality but only individual failure. Just like it is allegedly up to each person which place they assume in society, it supposedly also lies with the individual women whether they are restricted by their gender or not. In the face of an ideology that obscures this situation, an ideology generously granting individuals liberty precisely to the degree to which the question of the social conditions of liberty is suppressed, one must call to mind feminism’s political stake. Feminism exposes the question of gender inequality as a social question. With issue 84 “Texte zur Kunst” surveys the state of feminism in arts and academics, in media and everyday life.Plus reviews from Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Vienna, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Utrecht, Stuttgart, and Graz
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Alex Hubbard, Douglas Gordon, and R.H. Quaytman
ENGLISH CONTENT
PREFACE
JULIA VOSS
GENTLEMEN’S CLUB OF MODERNITY, OR THE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
PAMELA M. LEE
POST-FEMINISM … POST-GENDER?
SHE IS THE ONE
SURVEY WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN, KERSTIN CMELKA, EVA GEULEN, CHARLOTTE KLONK, GERTRUD KOCH, ZOE LEONARD, MICHAELA MEISE, AMY SILLMAN, CHRISTIANE VOSS
MARIE-LUISE ANGERER
DSK AND THE CRISIS OF CURRENCY/IES
ELAHE HASCHEMI YEKANI
INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER DANGERS ON THE PATH TO EQUALITY
MONIKA RINCK
THE DIVA PRINCIPLE
PICTURE SPREAD
MONIKA BAER
REVIEWS
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
WORLDS IN COLLISION
On “Melancholia” by Lars von Trier
JOHN BEESON
MODE OF PRODUCTION
On Blake Rayne at Capitain Petzel, Berlin
CAROLINE BUSTA
OCCUPATIONS
On Ida Ekblad at Greene Naftali, Nikolas Gambaroff at the Swiss Institute, New York, and Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
JONATHAN GRIFFIN
CALIFORNIA ÜBER ALLES
On “Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981″ at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
ARTISTS’ EDITIONS
ALEX HUBBARD
“Letter Phase 59–60″ and “Letter Phase 66–67″, 2008/2011
DOUGLAS GORDON
“Larger than life”, “Life size”, and “Smaller than life”, 2011
R.H. QUAYTMAN
“Point de Gaze, Chapter 23″, 2011
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