Issue #06 What Will the Next Revolution Be Like?

What Will the Next Revolution Be Like?

Zdenka Badovinac

843d3f26d2046f9fab7a15f85f54c820.jpg
Issue #06
May 2009










Notes
1

About this there are many, contradictory theories in circulation. The American urban sociologist Richard Florida writes about a "new creative class" on which the future society of knowledge and creative economy will be based. The Slovenian author Lenart J. Kučić, on the other hand, points out what he refers to as a "minor oversight" on the part of Florida, namely, that a vast majority of creative workers live far below the standards of an elite creative-class lifestyle. Here, Kučić refers to critical sociologists and researchers such as Richard Sennett, Ulrich Beck, and Naomi Klein. The artists and projects I refer to in my text see a certain critical distance and social awareness as inseparably associated with creativity.

2

Boris Groys, "Back from the Future," in Arteast 2000+: The Art of Eastern Europe: A Selection of Works for the International and National Collections of Moderna galerija Ljubljana, ed. Zdenka Badovinac and Peter Weibel (Bolzano and Vienna: Folio Verlag, 2001.

3

Inke Arns, Avantgarda v vzvratnem ogedalu: Sprememba paradigem receprije avant-garde v (nekdanji) Jugoslaviji in Rusiji od 80. let do danes [The avant-garde in the rear-view mirror: Changing the paradigms of the reception of the avant-garde in the (former) Yugoslavia and Russia from the '80s to today] (Ljubljana: Maska, 2006), 102.

4

Søren Kierkegaard, "Repetition," in The Kierkegaard Reader, ed. Jane Chamberlain and Jonathan Rée (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), 115.

5

Boris Groys, "O novem / On the New," M'Ars: Časopis Moderne galerije (2001): 35.

6

Walter Benjamin is a well-known philosopher and theoretician of art history and originality and reproduction. Many years after his tragic death he reappeared, in 1986 with the lecture "Mondrian '63-'96," organized by the Marxist Centre and the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana, and the next year in the "TV Gallery" exhibition in Belgrade. He subsequently published the theses "On Copy" (2003), gave an interview ("My Dear This is Not What it Seems to Be," 2005), the exhibition "What is Modern Art?" (Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2006).

7

Walter Benjamin, "Mondrian '63-'96" (manuscript of lecture at Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, 1986, organized by the ŠKUC Gallery).

8

Bertolt Brecht, "On the Threepenny Opera," in The Threepenny Opera, tr. and ed. Ralph Manheim and John Willett (London: Penguin Books, 2008), 92; quoted by WHW in their concept statement, "What Keeps Mankind Alive?."

9

Ignacija J. Fridl, "Raztrgani svet in premikanje pogledov," Dnevnik, October 18, 2007, Pop/Kultura, .

10

David Riff and Dimitry Vilensky, "Prekinjene zgodovine / Interrupted Histories," Arteast Razstava / Arteast Exhibition, Moderna galerija / Museum of Moderna Art, Ljubljana, 2006.

11

Dolar, "Automatism of Repetition."

Translated from the Slovene by Rawley Grau.

本文的中文版发表在《当代艺术与投资》第七期上.