December 2010 / Issue No. 80
in cooperation with Helmut Draxler
Out now
“POLITICAL ART?”With this 80th issue, Texte zur Kunst celebrates its 20th anniversary. However, the correspondingly “grand” topic of the anniversary issue is not immediately revealed on the cover. Only gradually do the words “Politische Kunst?” (“Political Art?”) emerge from the golden stripes. Already this visual effect, but even more so the question mark in the title highlights the innumerable layers of meaning in this pair of concepts, which can hardly be reduced to a common denominator. For political art seems to be omnipresent today. In addition to the Kunstvereine, biennials and other large-scale events have meanwhile established themselves as venues predominantly presenting political art. Yet it cannot be grasped as a fixed category. What does apply, though, is that a certain form of commitment and a fixed positioning of political art must by all means be considered in the framework of their differentiation. But what is the political of political art in the first place, and in what relation do art and politics stand? How do the claims, modes of reception and the effects of political art relate to each other?
Plus reviews from Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, Antwerp, London, Montréal, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Basel
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
John Baldessari, Zoe Leonard and Christopher Williams
ENGLISH CONTENT
PREFACE
HELMUT DRAXLER
THE CURSE OF THE GOOD DEED
The claim to autonomy and the suspicion of ideology in political art
WHEN ART MEETS POLITICS
A roundtable conversation about political art with ALICE CREISCHER, HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY, TIM EITEL UND CONSTANZE RUHM, moderated by SVEN BECKSTETTE
SIMON SHEIKH
THE POLITICS OF ART AND THE PROCESS OF BIENNALIZATION
MARIA MUHLE
POLITICAL ART AS AESTHETIC REALISM OR PASSION OF THE REAL?
BETWEEN CIVIC TRAINING AND POLTICAL ART!
A SURVEY ABOUT POLITICAL ART:
CLEMENS KRÜMMEL
POLTICAL ART!
HANS HAACKE
HANS HAACKE RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS FROM TEXTE ZUR KUNST
DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
SPEAKING OF POLITICAL ART
CLAIRE BISHOP
ART AND POLITICS
TOM HOLERT
CRITIQUE OR GESTURE: IS THAT THE ALTERNATIVE?
OTTO-KARL WERCKMEISTER
MARX´S THEORY DOES NOT PRESCRIBE AN ART OF THE LEFT
TANIA BRUGUERA
POLITICAL ART TRANSFORMS THE AUDIENCE INTO CITIZENS
REVIEWS
DEVIN FORE
HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY HAPPEN?
On Peter Geimer’s “Bilder aus Versehen. Eine Geschichte fotografischer Erscheinungen”
LAURENCE A. RICKELS
ASSEMBLY LINE
On Eva Hesse at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
DAVID REISMAN
LIFE AT WORK
On David Lieske at Alex Zachary, New York
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
A MUSEUM OF MONOLOGUES IN THE VICINITY OF ART
On Falke Pisano at Extra City, Antwerpen
LIZ KOTZ
FOREST OF SIGNS
On “How many Billboards?” in the city of Los Angeles
DAVID BUSSEL
FORWARD, NOT FORGETTING
On Chto delat? at Institute of Contemporary Art, London
ARTISTS’ EDITIONS
ZOE LEONARD
“Untitled, East Jerusalem”, 1999/2010
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
“C”, 2010
JOHN BALDESSARI
“Sediment: Throat, Nose and Spider”, 2010
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