December 2008 / Issue No. 72
“DESIGN”
In cooperation with Tom Holert
Out Now
The new issue of “Texte zur Kunst” is dedicated to the topic of “design”. All contributions agree on the diagnosis that this concept is currently being reevaluated in the fields of visual arts, aesthetics, architecture, urbanism, and product design. Contrary to popular diagnoses and narratives of decline the current issue seeks to provide arguments for an understanding of design as a relevant practice for solving social crises. Thus grasped, design may also be regarded as a crucial point of reference for current artistic practices, operating with a reconstruction or an actualization of the formal languages of modern design and its critical, if not emancipatory potential.
Plus reviews from New York, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Cologne, Kassel, Nürnberg, Bremen, Stuttgart, Braunschweig and Gwangju
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Maria Lassnig, Tobias Rehberger
ENGLISH CONTENT
PREFACE
TOM HOLERT
DESIGN AND NERVOUSNESS
PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY
An interview with Tomás Maldonado by Jesko Fezer
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
UNDER THE SIGN OF DESIGN
RUTH SONDEREGGER
TRANSGRESSION REQUIRED
A Comment on Jacques Rancière
HELMUT DRAXLER
AMBIVALENCE AND ACTUALIZATION
Exhibition Design as Artistic Practice
REGINA BITTNER
DESIGN CITY – CITY WITHOUT MANUAL?
JASON SMITH
TO HAVE DONE WITH CRITIQUE
On Alain Badiou’s Affirmative Inaesthetics
REVIEWS
YATES MCKEE
NEOLIBERAL GOTHIC
On Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
BEN CARLSON
THE MUMMY RETURNS
On Daniel McDonald at Broadway 1602, New York
ADAM SZYMCZYK
RESTLESS ARCHIVE
On Tadeusz Kantor at the Migros Museum, Zurich
MATT SAUNDERS
WORKING THE ROOMS
On Matt Mullican at Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
ARTISTS’ EDITION issue 72:
MARIA LASSNIG
“Erwachen”, 2007/2008
SPECIAL ARTISTS’ EDITION ISSUE 72
TOBIAS REHBERGER
“Gabbing Londi Ceramic Object I-LX”, 2008
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