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Museum Culture : Histories, Discourses, Spectacles
No full textDrawing from the history of museums in Western Europe, Israel, the United States and the former Soviet Union, this collection of essays focuses on the governing ideologies behind the practices and strategies of display in institutions shown to be equally guided by historical structures and narratives. As the editors note, common themes and insights link the essays within and across their division into three separate sections: Histories, Discourses, and Spectacles. Index, 15 p. Biographical notes on contributors. Circa 500 bibl. ref
De-regulation: With the work of Kutlug Ataman
No full textDiscusses the video work of Turkish film-maker Kutlug Ataman curated under the title 'De-Regulation', and the subsequent research project developed out of this entitled 'Istanbul - Skin of the City' which includes photographs, a 'visual essay' by Stefan Roemer, an archive of wedding cultures throughout Turkey assembled by Nermin Saybasili, television, posters, books and magazines. The author describes Ataman's video installations, many of which include female subjects, considers the focus on Turkish lives, examines the fictions of identification in many of the video testimonies, and comments on sexuality in the narratives. She considers what is meant by experience and comments on her interest in creolised subjects
Academy: The Production of Subjectivity
No full text(reprinted as part of ‘Summit: Non-aligned Initiatives in Education and Culture’, May 2007, Berlin, and in MONOdispersed, no. 1, June 2001, Porto: University School of Fine Arts, also translated into Danish and reprinted in Exit (catalogue), Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler, 2007)
In a world variously called postmodern, late capitalist, or simply Empire, a world in which power has been decentred, virtual centres of power exist everywhere. We might say that these virtual centres of power are our own subjectivities, and thus that the battle ground against this power is in some sense ourselves. Hence the importance in understanding politics - and political art practice - as not just being about institutional and ideological critique, but as involving the active production of our own subjectivity. Hence also the importance of creative pedagogy; teaching practices that involve student participation, workshops, ‘laboratories’, and other teaching models that do not mimic the top down structures in existence elsewhere. Such pedagogical practices can contribute to the active and practical involvement of individuals in determining their own intellectual and creative projects, and indeed their wider lives
Geo-cultures
No full textIrit Rogoff’s project 'Geo-Cultures' examines the biennial as a site where local knowledge is exchanged with conditions elsewhere
Who do WE face?
Full text linkFORMER WEST is a long-term, transnational research, education, publishing, and exhibition project in the field of contemporary art and theory. The project grapples with the repercussions of the political, cultural, and economic events of 1989 for the contemporary condition. It does so in the search for ways of formerizing the persistently hegemonic conjuncture that is “the West”; to be able instead to simply refer to “the west,” and with it, suggest the possibility of producing new constellations, another world, other worldings.
Through the propositional imaginary “former West,” the project brings forth a means by which to assess the contemporary at the intersection of two temporal constructions of “the West”: one equated with the “first world” of a post-WWII, tripartite Cold War arrangement; the other, synonymous with the notion of Western ultramodernity
'Not There Of,'
No full text'Not There Of,' ARS 2001, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2001
'Spaces of Disavowal'
No full text'Spaces of Disavowal' in Unhomed, Kunst Museum Trondheim, Norway, 2000
‘What is a Theorist’
No full text‘What is a Theorist’ in Was ist ein Kunstler, ed Katharyna Sykora, Berlin, 2003. http://www.kein.org/node/6
Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture
No full textIn an age of 'ethnic cleansing' and forced migration, of contested borders and nations in turmoil, how have issues of place and identity, and of belonging and exclusion, been represented in visual culture? In Terra Infirma, Irit Rogoff examines geography's truth claims and signifying practices, arguing that geography is a language in crisis, unable to represent the immense changes that have taken place in a post-colonial, post-communist, post-migratory world. She uses the work of international contemporary artists to explore how art in the twentieth century has confronted and challenged issues of identity and belonging.
Rogoff's dazzling and richly-illustrated study takes in painting, installation art, film and video by a wide range of artists including Charlotte Salomon, Ana Mendieta, Joshua Neustein, Yehoshua Glotman, Mona Hatoum, Hans Haacke, Ashley Bickerton, Alfredo Jaar and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Structuring her argument through themes of luggage, mapping, borders and bodies, Rogoff explores how artists have confronted twentieth century phenomena such as the horror of the Holocaust, the experience of diaspora at New York's Ellis Island, and, in the present day, disputed and fraught boundaries in the Middle East, the two Germanies, the Balkan states and the US-Mexican border
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