Geschichte in Zeiten der Hyperzirkulation

Roundtable
Posters by Rita Vitorelli & Mirko Borsche
from left to right: Marco Roso, Lauren Boyle, Kolja Reichert, Hito Steyerl, Susanne von Falkenhausen
Artwork by Liam Gillick for Spike

Ein Roundtable-Gespräch zwischen DIS, Hito Steyerl, Susanne von Falkenhausen und Kolja Reichert bei Spike Berlin im Dezember 2014.

Woher rührt der Eindruck des Ahistorischen in vielen jüngeren Arbeiten? Welche Bedeutung hat (Kunst-)Geschichte heute noch für Post-Internet-Künstler und die sogenannte New Aesthetic? Verändert sich der historische Orientierungssinn in Zeiten der Hyperzirkulation? Benötigen wir einen neuen Produktivismus?

Das Gespräch zum Nachlesen hier.

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Diskussion
Roundtable
DIS
Berlin
Hito Steyerl
Kolja Reichert

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Exhibition view of “Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin: Whether Line”, Fondazione Prada, 2019 Photo Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy Fondazione Prada Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin, Neighbor Dub, 2019 15 channel sound, Iron, epoxy powder paint, PVC, wood, stanchions

Exhibition view of “Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin: Whether Line”, Fondazione Prada, 2019
Photo Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy Fondazione Prada

Neighbor Dub, 2019
15 channel sound, Iron, epoxy powder paint, PVC, wood, stanchions

Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin at Fondazione Prada, Milan

Jeppe Ugelvig on the duo’s latest multimedia-installation ”Whether Line” after relocating their studio to rural Ohio to explore post-Trump American folklore through their neurotic and bewildering lens.

People
Stella McCartney's 2017 Ad Campaign

Stella McCartney's 2017 Ad Campaign

Out of State

A summer chronicle, part 1: NATASHA STAGG is back with her summer column and writes about the problem all this sustainability talk often misses

 

Discourse
Bonfire, Olsok St Olav's Day, Skjolden

Bonfire, Olsok St Olav's Day, Skjolden

The Downward Spiral: a Philosopher’s Boat in Skjolden

This month Dean Kissick goes to the Norwegian countryside, contemplates Wittgenstein’s retreat from society and sees art’s return to its pagan origins in Marianne Heske’s latest project.

Discourse
The Good Life was a popular British sitcom about a suburban couple who tried to escape modern life and go “back to the land” of Surbiton, South West London in which the “radical thinking” of the counter culture finds synergy with middle class (yuppie) Britain.

The Good Life was a popular British sitcom about a suburban couple who tried to escape modern life and go “back to the land” of Surbiton, South West London in which the “radical thinking” of the counter culture finds synergy with middle class (yuppie) Britain.

NOW ZERO: THE GOOD LIFE

This month Ella Plevin lets matters ferment. The italicized passages are from the Brooks Haxton translation of Heraclitus’ Fragments.

 

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Carroll Dunham,  Clouds (1) , (2018) Mixed media on linen 126 x 151.5 x 5.5 cm © Carroll Dunham Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / New York Photo: David N. Regen

Carroll Dunham, Clouds (1), 2018
Mixed media on linen 126 x 151.5 x 5.5 cm
© Carroll Dunham Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / New York; Photo: David N. Regen

The Cock Crows

Spike went to Zurich Art Weekend to look at art and talk to people. Alex Scrimgeour on a handful of standout shows currently on view in Switzerland’s largest city.

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Mónica Calles Ensaio para uma Cartografia Photo: Bruno Simao

Mónica Calles Ensaio para uma Cartografia
Photo: Bruno Simao

Wiener Festwochen 2019: Mónica Calle und Milo Rau / NTGent

Klaus Speidel über die beiden Stücke Ensaio para uma Cartografia von Mónica Calle und Orest in Mossul von Milo Rau / NTGent

Discourse
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Jana Euler,  Under this perspective, 1 , 2015 Oil on canvas, 190 x 150 cm Photo: Stefan Korte. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Jana Euler, Under this perspective, 1, 2015
Oil on canvas, 190 x 150 cm
Photo: Stefan Korte. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Portrait Jana Euler

For the past ten years, the German artist Jana Euler has worked an eclectic lexicon of styles to dissect the mechanisms by which value is assigned to art. For her recent exhibition at Galerie Neu in Berlin, she presented eight tall paintings of sharks. Swiss curators Tenzing Barshee and Fabrice Stroun met to talk about the ideological implications of her work and the unique place it occupies within the field of figurative painting.

People
Really Useful Knowledge (Brook Andrew), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014 Photo: Joaquín Cortés & Román Lores / M.N.C.A.R.S

Really Useful Knowledge (Brook Andrew), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014

Photo: Joaquín Cortés & Román Lores / M.N.C.A.R.S

Interview: Collective WHW on their appointment as directors of Kunsthalle Wien

Discourse
Montez Press Radio photographed by Taylor Ervin

Montez Press Radio photographed by Taylor Ervin

The Downward Spiral: Paradise by Dimes Square

A love letter to Montez Press Radio from Dean Kissick

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Foto: Iris Helena Hamers

Warum malt Anselm Reyle Aquarelle?

Rafael Horzon belauscht zwei Polizisten, die sich über die neuen Arbeiten des Malers Anselm Reyle Gedanken machen.

Discourse

NOW ZERO: AKER MAKUM

Tired of all the GoT takes? For her May column, Ella dives into a fish tank and digs into mystical poetic botany in her mother's garden, the Black Forest and at the Serpentine's latest symposium. What is planted may never die. 

"The 80s was the last period when low self-esteem was a normative response to authority"

Essay: The Last Great Era of Low Self-Esteem