Issue #01 The Next Documenta Shouldn’t Be in Kassel

The Next Documenta Shouldn’t Be in Kassel

Dieter Lesage

Issue #01
December 2008










Notes
1

The title of this piece is, of course, a reference to the well-known e-flux project, curated by Jens Hoffmann, "The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist." See .

2

Oliver Marchart, Hegemonie im Kunstfeld. Die documenta-Ausstellungen dX, D11, d12 und die Politik der Biennalisierung (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008).

3

See Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985).

4

For my critique of the Rotterdam exhibition of "Die Regierung," see Dieter Lesage, "How To Become Dutch," Afterall. A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 18 (Summer 2008): 17-26.

5

Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel, "Some Afterthoughts on the Migration of Form," Afterall. A Journal of Art, Context, and Enquiry 18 (Summer 2008): 5-15.

6

See Dieter Lesage, "Cultural Resignation Today: On Over-Identification and Overstatement," in Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-Identification, ed. BAVO (Rotterdam: episode publishers, 2007), 88-98.

7

"Auf Afrika fliegen," Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 2008. The statement has been picked up by almost all German media.

8

NBP, .