September 2010 / Issue No. 79
in cooperation with Sven Lütticken
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This issue of “Texte zur Kunst” bears the programmatic title “Life at Work”. Admittedly, this means to take up quite a bit, for at issue is nothing less than revaluating a theoretical and historical relation that has determined the history of modern and contemporary art like almost no other: Since “around 1800″, the forms of art have been ascribed a quasi-organic life of their own. An important trend in modern aesthetics sought to evoke liveliness, with the aim of offering resistance to the commodified world of capitalism itself. But how does this problematic pose itself today? Is a critical reference to “life” in art and beyond at all possible after theories of biopolitics have insistently argued that capitalism has permeated all areas of life?
Plus reviews from Berlin, Madrid, Zurich, Basel, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Barcelona, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Leverkusen, and Kraichtal
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Louise Lawler, Thomas Scheibitz
ENGLISH CONTENT
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
ACTS IN THE AGE OF VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCE
BRANDEN W. JOSEPH
LEE LOZANO’S DREAM OF LIFE
ERIC C. H. DE BRUYN
INTERMITTENT CONVERSATIONS ON LEAVING THE FACTORY
PATENTED IDEALISM
A Conversation between Sven Lütticken and Hito Steyerl
SABETH BUCHMANN
LIFE AS ALLEGORY
On Joseph Beuys’s “La revoluzione siamo Noi”
RACHEL HAIDU
PERFORMANCE LIFE
PAUL CHAN
MIRACLES, FORCES, ATTRACTIONS, RECONSIDERED
REVIEWS
ALEXANDER ALBERRO
THE SILVER LINING OF GLOBALIZATION
On “The Potosí Principle” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
MICHAEL SANCHEZ
A DOSE OF FEELING
On Michael Krebber at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
ARTISTS’ EDITIONS
LOUISE LAWLER
“DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE”, 2010
THOMAS SCHEIBITZ
“MASTERPLAN”, 2010
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