Issue no. 82 out now

June 2011 / Issue No. 82 out now
“ARTISTIC RESEARCH”
in cooperation with Tom Holert

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With artistic research, the June 2011 issue of “Texte zur Kunst” addresses a theme that has been increasingly discussed in the past two decades, particularly at the level of policies on higher education. In university and academic education, there are currently signs of a trend determining art as a field of “research”—artistic research is thus a highly controversial point of reference for initiatives related to educational and research policies, even though the historical and systematic preconditions of this type of “research” are still to a large extent unclear. However, among practitioners—artists, university teachers, curators etc.—the debate on the obvious question of the century-old relationship between art and science has long been abandoned. References to the historical differentiation processes of the two disciplines and their rejection by modern avant-garde movements are not neglected, but it is now much more about—and that is the main focus of this issue—elucidating the specificity of artistic research practice and the conditions of its possibility, rather than again and again spelling out the dialectics (or synthesis) of “art” and “science.”

Plus reviews from Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne, Nuremberg, Duesseldorf, Quimper, Vienna and Madrid

Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Keren Cytter, Sarah Morris and Rosemarie Trockel

ENGLISH CONTENT

PREFACE

TOM HOLERT
ARTISTIC RESEARCH: ANATOMY OF AN ASCENT

LINES OF WANDERING
Statement by Angela Melitopoulos

KATHRIN BUSCH
KNOWLEDGE IN THE ARTS – A PHILOSOPHICAL DAYDREAM

PROJECT FOR A MASQUERADE (HIROSHIMA) – FROM HARD GRAFT TO HAPPY ACCIDENT
Statement by Simon Starling

SEVEN QUESTIONS ON ARTS AS RESEARCH
An E-mail interview with James Elkins

THE HARD WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT
Statement by Stephan Dillemuth

ELKE BIPPUS
AN AESTHETICIZATION OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH

AN OFFICE CHAIR DOWN ON THE STREET, A FEMALE PASSER-BY YELLS AT HER DOG, OR: RESEARCHING THE CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN IMAGES
Statement by Maya Schweizer

ISABELLE GRAW
THE KNOWLEDGE OF PAINTING: NOTES ON THINKING IMAGES AND THE PERSON IN THE PRODUCT

ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Statement by Thomas Locher

O.T., 2011
Statement by Amelie von Wulffen

BASIC RESEARCH
Survey on artistic research
Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / European Artistic Research Network (EARN) / Model House – Mapping Transcultural Modernisms, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / PhD Program, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London / PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Phd Program, Malmö Art Acadamy / Practice-Based PhD in Art and Writing, Goldsmiths University of London / Projektbüro Friedrich von Borries

PICTURE SPREAD
Ulrike Müller

REVIEWS

MARIE MURACCIOLE
IT IS YOUR FIRST MIRAGE, SOPHIE
On Guy de Cointet at Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper

ADAM KLEINMAN
IT’S NOT WHERE YOU START, IT’S WHERE YOU FINISH
On Christian Philipp Müller at Murray Guy, New York

ALEXANDER ALBERRO
THE JOKE OF PAINTING
On David Hammons at L&M Arts, New York

LISA LEE
WHERE SENSIBILITY TRUMPS SENSE
On Kai Althoff at Gladstone Gallery, New York

JONATHAN GRIFFIN
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS SUPERHERO
On Mike Kelley at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

ARTISTS’ EDITIONS

KEREN CYTTER
“video-art: A manual”, 2011

SARAH MORRIS
“Geigy [Clips] “, 2011

ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
“Virgin Islands”, 2011

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