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e-Books and Publications
L’Internationale Online Library is a continually expanding selection of publications of critical theory, postcolonial studies, geopolitics, museum studies and other cultural fields, edited by L’Internationale Online and members of the confederation. All e-Books are available to be read, printed and used as reference material for free. Physical copies of all the publications are housed at the institutions of the members of the confederation: MG+MSUM (Ljubljana), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), MACBA (Barcelona), M HKA (Antwerp), SALT (Istanbul & Ankara), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), MSN (Warsaw) / NCAD (Dublin), HDK-Valand (Gothenburg)
e-Books
Architectural Dissonances
The compositions, essays, videos and architectural projects in this collection explore strategies and technologies of investigating beyond the predominantly Western modernist architectural format and the main framework for today's uncontested architectural sites, trying to obscure, contradict or amplify on the notions of modernity. Echoing processual music terminologies, the dissonant practices and structures transform energy, twist and interfere with the virtual and physical context around, in a macro form on the territory of the complexity drive to change the ideologies of the fixed urban form. Through the approach of decolonial thinking being and doing one question that emerges is how to fundamentally rethink and offer ways to reimagine society through spatial practice – beyond the utopian universalist constraints conceived within modern architecture. Recognizing the limits and slips of academic disciplines such as architecture, art history, museology and curating, and encouraging practices of unlearning, our energy is therefore to situate a critical conversation around decolonization in Europe but through challenging Western epistemologies in relation to architecture, living and working spaces, territories of care, urban and rural planning.
Chapters
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- Architectural Dissonances – Editorial Foreword by Corina Oprea
- Architectural Dissonances / Dissonant Architectures - Editorial Introduction by Marie-Louise Richards
- Reconstructing the Anatomical Theatre in Uppsala by Malin Heyman
- Cracks in the Modernist Foundation: On the Necessity of Challenging Dominant Narratives by Itohan Osayimwese
- The Imagination of an Aesthetic Regime in the Modern Arab City: Dissent, Redistribution of the Sensible, Poetics by Suha Hasan
- Double Standard by Lais Myrrha
- The Colonial Afterlife of Encroachment by Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
- Architectural Demodernization as Critical Pedagogy: Pathways for Undoing Colonial Fascist Architectural Legacies in Sicily by Emilio Distretti and Alessandro Petti
- Temporal Collage and Producing Escape: What is the relationship of modernization to boat living? by Harun Morrison
- ‘Sludge’: An Imagined World beyond Development by Sepideh Karami
- The Gathering by Ayedin Ronaghi
- A Continuous Conversation between and by Roberta Burchardt and Tatiana Pinto
Class and Redistribution
Class and Redistribution is the third in a series of e-publications edited by L'Internationale Online looking at concepts of political economy. Following the previous publications Austerity and Utopia and Degrowth and Progress, the present issue complicates two contested economic terms: class and redistribution. By inviting contributions from sociologists, political philosophers and artists, we seek to understand how these terms are utilised in institutional contexts and artistic practices. Our approach challenges orthodox definitions of economic categories. Since the universal, ahistorical use of these categories is debatable, we accept, following historian Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘the[ir] dual nature’, and interrogate their ‘intellectual and social histories’. It is urgent, for example, to question the Western cultural logic that governs financial practices and instruments such as insurance and property rights, and to expose the coloniality of an equation that synonymises productivity and profit, or custody and patrimony.
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- Table of contents
- Class and Redistribution - Editorial Foreword by Farah Aksoy, Meagan Down and Corina Oprea
- Feminist Movements in a Pandemic World – Towards a New Class Politics by Cinzia Arruzza
- On Social Reproduction and the Covid-19 Pandemic. Seven Theses by The Marxist Feminist Collective
- Marx Pather Bhumika 1 by Naeem Mohaiemen
- On the Politics of Extraction, Exhaustion and Suffocation by Françoise Vergès
- Oilbird with Nestling, 2021 by Ingela Ihrman
- MARX WITHIN FEMINISM by Frigga Haug
- Aunt Yellow by Aykan Safoğlu
- The Giant Pit by Noah Fischer
what about support and what about struggle
what about support and what about struggle is edited by L'Internationale Online and Jennifer Hayashida, as a collection of poetic responses on the most essential topic of today: how to survive un/natural catastrophes?
Starting from a collective reading of Francis Marie Lo’s volume of poetry A Series of Un/Natural/ Disasters (Commune Editions, 2016), poets and artists Napo Masheane, Léuli Eshraghi, Merve Unsal, tacoderaya, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo and Fernanda Laguna have resituated its critique of catastrophe discourse in other urgent pasts and presents through variety of poetic, visual, discursive and audio formats.
What are the poetics we are left with when the un/natural entanglements of “disaster” are taken apart and reconstructed? Lo’s text utilizes translation as one of many methods to examine and critique what scholars such as Orlando Patterson term “social death,” that is, a condition of not being recognized – especially by nation-state apparatuses – as fully human, vis-à-vis a poetics of mutual aid represented through assemblage, transcription, data-gathering, interview, and still-life.
With this collection of speculative translation responses, we’ve experienced processes of meandering through language and time, re-mixing histories – fast-forwarding, resting, reversing, accelerating, and discontinuing – almost as if tangibly whirling on a turntable through temporalities, methods, and geographies, based on repetitions and recirculations as well as kinship in the practice of revolutionary solidarity.
Chapters
- Table of contents
- what about support and what about struggle - editorial foreword by Corina Oprea and Jennifer Hayashida
- / or is the horizon line just another crack? by Merve Ünsal
- Tanem toktok ia | Traduction | Faʻaliliuga by Léuli Eshrāghi
- 1 ola majestic en mi balconee | 1 majestik wave en mi balco-knee by tacoderaya
- Child, you are death- you are dead, You have died by Napo Masheane
- A Rupture by Francis Lo
- Sad by Fernanda Laguna
- Why is it that survival comes before thrival*? by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Degrowth and Progress
Degrowth and Progress is the second in a series looking at other potential narratives for mapping our current landscape through redefining the social, political and economic terms of engagement. Following the e-publication Austerity and Utopia, L’Internationale Online presents a second collection of interventions to think through two apparently distant concepts. Artists, thinkers and researchers were invited to reflect on a dissimilar pair of themes as fertile ground for thought and proposition. With this new issue, we would like to pursue a path of reflection to interrogate the ambivalence of a possible progression of degrowth, and attempt to stage a hybrid scenario of speculative thought and action. This collection draws upon the complexity of ethical, ecological and political frameworks and reveals other perspectives on the current crisis through critical essays, storytelling, science fiction, biomorphic design, audiovisual traces of artistic practices and allegorical maps. Progress was the firstborn of modernity, a major promise of continuous development towards the perfection of ‘humankind’. But progress in whose name? To whose benefit? With the exclusion of whom? Progress towards what kind of model? The notion of progress, besides being Eurocentric and linked to colonialism, has been the ideological framework for liberalism itself. The ideal of a continuous, progressive and desirable advancement of civilisation has been reframed in recent decades with ‘sustainable development’. But isn’t sustainability a concept far too simplistic to be able to address real questions of poverty, exploitation, segregation, congestion, depletion of land, desertification, terraforming, or the mass extinction of species? Could we think in a different direction about progress?
Chapters
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- Degrowth and Progress - editorial foreword by Sara Buraya Boned and Ida Hirsenfelder
- Convivial Degrowth or Barbarity? by Vincent Liegey
- After the Catastrophe, I Will Be Reborn by Cristina Cámara
- Interview with Silvia Federici by Sara Buraya Boned
- New Extractivism. Assemblage of concepts and allegories by Vladan Joler
- Looking Beyond the Vortex of Crises and Debt by Ajda Pistotnik
- Where Are We Going? — Degrowth and Arts Ecosystem. A Conversation between Monica Narula and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, moderated by Corina Oprea
- Degrowth Makes Me Grow… by Paula Pin Lage
- PRECIPITATION by Marta Echaves, translation by Madeleine Stack
- Progress in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin by Ida Hiršenfelder
Austerity and Utopia
Austerity and Utopia is the first in a series looking at other potential narratives for mapping our current landscape through redefining the social, political and economic terms of engagement. It was planned a long time before the pandemic. Our current situation was unimaginable just a few months ago, but that it was not easily predictable does not mean that there were no elements pointing to a possible crisis of this nature. Yet the collective search for measures of care and climate justice in the attempt to redefine the neoliberal understanding of austerity and utopia – two major points of the current socio-economic formation – becomes even more pressing. The contributions to this issue have been written and edited to a high degree in confinement, at a time when the desire for things to go back to normal is ever-present and much discussed. But is ‘normality' what we really want? And if so, whose normality shall we return to? We need to reimagine the role that art and cultural institutions play in the production of a new set of relations and other modes of production and distribution. One can no longer think in terms of abundance, in terms of the desire of accumulation and the capitalist utopia, which only creates inequality and exhaustion. Undoubtedly, the world is in a situation of fatal economic disaster, crisis and breakdown, but austerity as another means of accumulation must not be the solution. Social and political scientist Athena Athanasiou speaks about dispossession and the unsustainable consequences of neoliberal management over life itself, ‘as much as current neoliberal austerity is injurious for most people’. Moving from global historical events to phantasmatic world history, this edition gathers analysis and engagement with the various contradictions and possible emancipations that the term ‘austerity’ generates, together with the radical, transnational desire to unravel utopian promises. In an effort to expand conceptions of austerity and utopia beyond the economic paradigm, we enter into a different epistemological realm which recognises a multitude of knowledges. Any call for imagining another world must involve artists, performers, composers, writers and thinkers. This thought-provoking exercise, then, seeks to elaborate on other understandings of austerity and its relations to utopia.
Chapters
- Table of contents
- Austerity and Utopia – editorial foreword by Nav Haq, Pablo Martínez and Corina Oprea
- LUXURIOUS POVERTY: LOOKING BACK AT A CULTURAL REVOLUTION by Emilio Santiago Muíño
- Time and Again, No Longer, Not Yet by Athena Athanasiou
- Nana de esta Pequeña era by Maria Salgado, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca
- Capital’s Vengeful Utopia: Unpayable Debts from Above and Below by Max Haiven
- Chile: Shattering the Neoliberal Spell Joy and Desire Against Economic Obedience by Miguel A. López
- The Production of the Utopian Image by Marwa Arsanios
- songs for petals by Ayesha Hameed
Living with Ghosts: Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism
Living with Ghosts: Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism, is a constellation of essays, conversations and images that point to the manner in which the legacies of colonialism and fascism reverberate in our present conjuncture. The impulse for producing this issue was a question of whether it may be possible to trace the connections between the violences of the colonial project through the horrors of fascism to current forms of racism, identitarianism and populism – what we initially called 'an arc' of colonialism-nationalism-fascism.
These shifts are palpable in the contemporary political uncertainties expressed in this collection of texts. Each of the contributors reflect on the specificities of their environment through their lived experiences, through their artistic practices, or reflections on the curatorial climate. They seek to maintain a space for critical engagement and political criticism. Furthermore, this issue considers the layers of historical conditions that inform states of 'belonging' and 'sovereignty' (even 'citizenry' as a debatable proposition) in Europe. What becomes evident from these various contributions is that there is no sudden or surprising development towards the right – too often expressed an 'inexplicable phenomena' of contemporary society. They instead address it as a slow and steady movement based on historical events and political terms of reference which have remain unresolved and have again returned, this time through the opportunism advanced and fuelled by the structures of capitalism that connect Europe to Russia and America. Each is a case study that recognises the patterns of violence and inequality evident in the political structures of colonialism and fascism.
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- Table of contents
- Introduction, Living with Ghosts by Nick Aikens, Jyoti Mistry, Corina Oprea
- On European 'Civilisation': Colonialism, Land, Lebensraum by Gurminder K.Bhambra
- A Conversation at Bamayak and Mabaluk, Part of the Coastal Lands of the Emmiyengal People by Rex Edmunds, Elizabeth A. Povinelli
- On White Innocence by Gloria Wekker
- i defied the lens so it struck us by Quinsy Gario
- Drinking from Our Own Wells Endarkened Feminist Epistemology as Praxis in a Persistent Economy of Lack by Nkule Mabaso
- What Haunts European Contemporary Politics: A Discussion with Walter Famler by Jyoti Mistry
- The Uncensored Censors: How We Say 'Appropriation' Now? by Jelena Vesić
- Towards an Anti-Fascist International: A View from Central and Eastern Europe by Kuba Szreder
- Biographies by
Feminisms
The importance of women's rights have sprung up in movements across the globe in the past few years, exacerbated by increasing social, environmental, technological and political polarities. Feminisms is the sixth in a series of online publications published by L'Internationale Online.
This publication examines how women, or those who identify as female have been addressing not only inequalities - in reproductive rights, sexual rights, and in the right to equal pay - but also how plural feminisms have been and are being consistently re-thought, and how art museums can work with and respond to issues surrounding women's rights.
Feminisms play a crucial role in what L'Internationale does - not only as a way to live and work with women, but as a framework for continually re-assessing the institution's position for its publics. What is prevalent in this publication is a need to ask how we deal with emotion - not only as individuals, but as institutions and within bureaucracies. We hope that this publication can serve to raise discussions and to develop institutional practices that take into account our different publics, through a feminist lens.
Chapters
- Table of contents
- Introduction by Sarah Werkmeister
- A New Feminist Wave? by María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop
- The Weak Internationalism? Women's Protests in Poland and Internationally, Art and Law by Ewa Majewska
- Practice Intersectionality by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
- Feminist Street: From 3 June To 8 March by María Pia López
- Defiance of Amphibians: Neology as an Act of Alienation by Sarp Özer
- Inner Edges and Borders of Culture by Mojca Kumerdej
- The Eight of March When Women Said "Enough Is Enough" by Yayo Herrero
- Why Equality is of Critical Importance to Re-Politicise Feminism in the twenty-first Century by Fatma Arikoglu
- Feminism, Survival and the Arts in Ireland by Sarah Browne
- Feminism: possibilities for knowing, doing and existing. A conversation between the Otolith Group and Annie Fletcher by The Otolith Group and Annie Fletcher
- Biographies by
Subjects and Objects in Exile
Read the new publication Living with Ghosts: Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism.
The editorial board began discussing this e-publication in the aftermath of summer 2015. The decision to put together this fifth edition, titled "Subjects and Objects in Exile", was prompted by the many tragic displacements, fates and deaths of those seeking asylum in Europe and elsewhere. These enforced mass exiles are the result of civil wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The appalling and dehumanising management by European powers is having worrying economic, cultural, political and juridical implications. In this publication, we would like to address what has come to be called, not un-problematically we would argue, the European "refugee crisis". We do so in the shadow of recent and ongoing terrorist attacks, rising nationalism and Britain's imminent notification to leave the European Union.
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- Table of contents
- Introduction by
- Objects/Subjects in Exile by Wayne Modest, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Margareta von Oswald
- Mapping Collections by Christiane Berndes, Cristina Cámara Bello, Igor Španjol, Anders Kreuger, Antònia Maria Perelló
- Apricots from Damascus by Atıf Akın and Dilek Winchester
- A Few Notes on a Time of Uncertainties by Merve Bedir
- The Shame and Misery of Liberal Democracy: Europe and Migration Flows by Carlos Prieto del Campo
- The "Refugee Crisis" and the current Predicament of the Liberal State by Denise Ferreira da Silva
- Migrants...Refugees...People! by Ela Meh
- Brexit, New Nationalism, and the New Politics of Migrancy by John Byrne
- Škart Maps by Đorđe Balmazović
- Interview with Oliver Ressler by November Paynter
- The Mediterranean: A New Imaginary. Conflated Scales—Deep Inconsistencies by Adrian Lahoud
- Imperceptible Institutions by pantxo ramas
- Biographies by
Ecologising Museums
The implications around climate change have far-reaching consequences but they can also have far-reaching benefits. The e-publication Ecologising Museums explores how museums and cultural institutions can face the issue not only head-on, but from all angles. To what degree are the core activities of collecting, preserving and presenting in fact attitudes that embody an unsustainable view of the world and the relationship between man and nature?
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- Table of contents
- Introduction by
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Seeds by Michael Taussig
- Beyond COP21: Collaborating with Indigenous People to Understand Climate Change and the Arctic by Candis Callison
- Theorising More-Than Human Collectives for Climate Change Action in Museums by Fiona R. Cameron
- Fictioning is a Worlding by Clémence Seurat
- Late Subatlantic. Science Poetry in Times of Global Warming by Ursula Biemann
- Ecosophy and Slow Anthropology. A Conversation with Barbara Glowczewski by Barbara Glowczewski, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Sarah Werkmeister
- Necroaesthetics: Denaturalising the Collection by Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin
- The Eclipse of the Witness: Natural Anatomy and the Scopic Regime of Modern Exhibition-Machines by Vincent Normand
- Imagining a Culture Beyond Oil at the Paris Climate Talks by Mel Evans and Kevin Smith of Liberate Tate
- Climate Risks, Art, and Red Cross Action. Towards a Humanitarian Role for Museums? by Pablo Suarez
- Biographies by
Decolonising Archives
The e-publication Decolonising Archives aims to show how archives bear testimony to what was, even more so than collections. Archives present documents that allow one to understand what happened and in which order. Today Internet technology, combined with rapid moves made on the geopolitical chessboard, make archives a contested site of affirmation, recognition and denial. As such, it is of great importance to be aware of processes of colonialisation and decolonisation taking place as new technology can both be used to affirm existing hegemonic colonial relationships or break them open.
Chapters
- Table of contents
- Introduction by
- Radically De-Historicising the Archive. Decolonising Archival Memory from the Supremacy of Historical Discourse by Wolfgang Ernst
- Buried (and) Alive by Jeffrey Schnapp
- H[gun shot]ow c[gun shot]an I f[gun shot]orget? by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- Another Mapping of Art and Politics. The Archive Policies of Red Conceptualismos del Sur by Ana Longoni / Red Conceptualismos del Sur
- Decolonial Sensibilities: Indigenous Research and Engaging with Archives in Contemporary Colonial Canada by Crystal Fraser and Zoe Todd
- In Search For Queer Ancestors by Karol Radziszewski
- The Hump of Colonialism, or The Archive as a Site of Resistance by Rona Sela
- A Grin Without Marker by Filipa César
- Presenting Pasts by Andrea Stultiens
- The Archives of the Commons seminar, Madrid 2015 by Mela Dávila and Carlos Prieto del Campo (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Marisa Pérez Colina (Fundación de los Comunes) and Mabel Tapia (Red Conceptualismos del Sur)
- Archives of the Commons: Knowledge Commons, Information and Memory by Carlos Prieto del Campo
- Biographies by
Decolonising Museums
Decolonising Museums is the second thematic publication of L'Internationale Online; it addresses colonial legacies and mindsets, which are still so rooted and present today in the museum institutions in Europe and beyond. The publication draws from the conference Decolonising the Museum which took place at MACBA in Barcelona, 27-29 November 2014 (among the contributors to this thematic issue, Clémentine Deliss, Daniela Ortiz and Francisco Godoy Vega participated at this seminar), and offers new essays, responding to texts published on the online platform earlier this year.
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- Table of contents
- Introduction by
- The Invisible and the Visible. Identity Politics and the Economy of Reproduction in Art by Nav Haq
- Collecting Life's Unknowns by Clémentine Deliss
- "Decolonising Museums" through the lens of the collections and archives of the members of L'Internationale by
- From the collection of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven by Christiane Berndes
- The Dutch VOC mentality. Cultural Policy as a Business Model by Mirjam Kooiman
- Catch Me, If You Can! by Nana Adusei-Poku
- From the collection of M HKA, Antwerpen by Jan De Vree
- "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it" by Ana Bigotte Vieira
- The Culture of Coloniality by Daniela Ortiz
- The Border of the "Fourth World" by Francisco Godoy Vega
- 1989 - 1992. Myth and Magic by Francisco Godoy Vega
- Columbus, How Do I Get Rid of My Hangover? by Francisco Godoy Vega
- A Salt Box and a Bracelet Conversing with a Painting. Decolonising a Post-Soviet Museum in the Caucasus by Madina Tlostanova
- From the collection of MG+MSUM, Ljubljana by Walter Benjamin
- Around the Postcolony and the Museum. Curatorial Practice and Decolonizing Exhibition Histories by Rasha Salti
- From the Collection of MACBA, Barcelona by
- Institutional Fever in China by Colin Siyuan Chinnery
- Frontier Imaginaries by Vivian Ziherl
- Interview: Forced Closures by Vivian Ziherl
- What do we talk about when we talk about decolonisation? Interview with Rachel O'Reilly by Vivian Ziherl
- Biographies by
Representation Under Attack
Following the attacks on the creators of the controversial satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015, the shootings at a debate on free speech in Copenhagen, the punishment of the rights activist and blogger Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia, and the subsequent massive civil mobilisation, the cultural field is forced to process the significance of these events and their wider implications for our work. In Paris and many other instances across continents, representation itself came under attack. Arguably, the field of representation has been in crisis for some time, yet the current context demands that we consider this crisis from different perspectives and historical frameworks. As the public platform of a confederation of museums and art institutions, L'Internationale Online has commissioned a series of opinion pieces that comment on this complex situation in order to start a wider discussion from different cultural and geopolitical contexts. We invited contributors to consider the issues at stake: from questions of manipulated archives and how access to historical documents might play a role in attacks on representation, to what kind of manipulation and victimisation strategies attacks such as these engender.
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- Introduction by
- UNDER ATTACK (or Expression in the Age of Selfie-Control) by André Lepecki
- Bourgeois Censorship: No Representation Without Taxation! by Anej Korsika
- Syria as a Global Metaphor by Yassin Al-Haj Saleh
- The Myth of Unfamiliarity by Banu Karaca
- Chained Reaction: Freedom of Expression, Historical Censorship and Opposition Movements by Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
- Club Silencio and the Emptiness of the Square (regarding Tatlin's Whisper) by Tamara Díaz Bringas
- Havana Tribunes by Tamara Díaz Bringas
- A Dangerous State by Tamara Díaz Bringas
- Who Said Fear? by Tamara Díaz Bringas
- Zero for Conduct by Tamara Díaz Bringas
- Thing 001635 (Australia Coat of Arms) by Agency
- "Representation Under Attack" Through the Lens of the Collections and Archives of the Members of L'Internationale by Diana Franssen, Jesús Carrillo, Lola Hinojosa, Jan De Vree, Nav Haq, Sezin Romi, Igor Španjol
- Biographies by
Publications
Glossary of Common Knowledge
The Glossary of Common Knowledge (GCK) is a compilation of art terminology that differs substantially from what is found in the existing literature on art, and constitutes a five-year research project conducted by Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM), in the framework of L'Internationale's programme The Uses of Art.
In collaboration with institutions and individuals from Europe and other parts of the world, 66 contributors/narrators proposed terms relating to their own practices and contexts, to historical references, political or social situations, or L'Internationale projects. The terms were discussed and defined in six seminars dealing with six referential fields (historicisation, subjectivisation, geopolitics, constituencies, commons and ther institutionality) and the book follows these topics across six chapters.
Narrators created a plurality of voices and narratives which examine the proposed terms and add their different viewpoints, bringing with them overlooked, suppressed knowledge and also non-Western categories of thought and memories. This method gave rise to different ways of participating, sharing and using knowledge, as well as working together trans-globally.
The book contains 86 terms proposed by 66 contributors: Nick Aikens, Azra Akšamija, Burak Arıkan, Marwa Arsanios, Zdenka Badovinac, Sezgin Boynik, Boris Buden, Zoe Butt, John Byrne, Jesús Carrillo, Colin Chinnery, Keti Chukhrov, Anyely Marín Cisneros, Rebecca Close, Lia Colombino, Bart De Baere, Carlos Prieto del Campo, Marta Malo de Molina, Ekaterina Degot, Galit Eilat, Róza El-Hassan, Patrick D. Flores, Kate Fowle, Cristina Freire, Anthony Gardner, Chema González, Alenka Gregorič, Dušan Grlja, Khwezi Gule, Aigul Hakimova, Vít Havránek, Beatriz Herráez, Ida Hiršenfelder, Marianna Hovhannisyan, Manray Hsu, Marko Jenko, Anej Korsika, Vasıf Kortun, Anders Kreuger, Lisette Lagnado, Thomas Lange, Miguel A. López, Manos Invisibles, Sohrab Mohebbi, Gabi Ngcobo, Miglena Nikolchina, Ahmet Öğüt, Meriç Öner, November Paynter, Alexei Penzin, Jabulani Chen Pereira, Bojana Piškur, Paul B. Preciado, Tzortzis Rallis, pantxo ramas, Suely Rolnik, Rasha Salti, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín, Ania Szremski, Igor Španjol, Mabel Tapia, Francisco Godoy Vega, Jelena Vesić, Stephen Wright, Darij Zadnikar, Adela Železnik.
The Glossary of Common Knowledge was curated by Zdenka Badovinac (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana), Bojana Piškur (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana) and Jesús Carrillo (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2012–2016), and the book was edited by Ida Hiršenfelder, and published by Moderna galerija.
ISBN 978-961-206-132-6
To purchase the publication, please contact the bookstores in the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, or the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana.
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- Curatorial Statement by Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, Jesús Carrillo
The Long 1980s. Constellations of Art, Politics and Identities
The Long 1980s considers the significance of the 1980s for culture and society today. It revisits this pivotal decade via a collection of microhistories from across Europe that span the fields of art, culture, and politics. Central to the stories in this book is the changing relationship between ideologies, governments, and their publics, the effects of which have come to shape the contemporary condition of Europe and beyond. Artists, writers, and activists were responding to and articulating these changes in myriad ways: in the streets, through words, images, objects, and actions. At the same time, new subjectivities were emerging at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, all voices that were demanding to be heard. The publication is divided into four thematic chapters: 1. No Alternative? (on counter cultures, alternative forms of self-organization and art as activism); 2. Know Your Rights (on civil liberties, the rising planetary consciousness and new ecologies); 3. Processes of Identification (on anti-colonial positions and the drive for sexual and gender equality through culture); 4. New Order (on the far-reaching effects of the neoliberal regime and, finally, the significance of the year 1989). Comprising newly commissioned essays by leading thinkers alongside seventy case studies, including images and archival material published for the first time, this reader offers an invaluable and alternative reading of the recent past. A constellation of over seventy micro-histories, ranging from significant exhibitions or events to publications or key essays are presented across the four sections, spanning the different contexts out of which the research developed: Belgium, Catalonia, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and the UK. These case studies are presented through a rich combination of archival material, reproductions or reprinted texts with introductions by curators, historians, and theorists. Editors: Nick Aikens (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Teresa Grandas (MACBA, Barcelona), Nav Haq (M HKA, Antwerp), Beatriz Herráez (independent curator, San Sebastián), Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (L'Internationale online). Contributors: Nick Aikens, Henry Andersen, Zdenka Badovinac, Barış Gençer Baykan, Cristina Cámara Bello, Hakim Bey, Manuel Borja-Villel, Rosi Braidotti, Boris Buden, Jesús Carrillo, Bojana Cvejić, Luc Deleu, Ayşe Düzkan, Diedrich Diederichsen, Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş, Corinne Diserens, Merve Elveren, Charles Esche, Marcelo Expósito, Božidar Flajšman, Annie Fletcher, Diana Franssen, June Givanni, Lisa Godson, Teresa Grandas, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Lubaina Himid, Lola Hinojosa, Antony Hudek, Tea Hvala, Gal Kirn, Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, Anders Kreuger, Elisabeth Lebovici, Rogelio López Cuenca, Geert Lovink, Amna Malik, Pablo Martínez, Lourdes Méndez, Aleš Mendiževec, Ana Mizerit, Alexei Monroe, Meriç Öner, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Bojana Piškur, Marta Popivoda, Carlos Prieto del Campo, Pedro G. Romero, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Igor Španjol, Chris Straetling, Luis Trindade, Erman Ata Uncu, Jelena Vesić, Mar Villaespesa, Vladimir Jerić Vlidi, Ana Vujanović. 2018, Valiz with L'internationale | supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union | partner: KASK School of Arts, University College Ghent | paperback | 416 pp. | English | ISBN 978-94-92095-49-7 | Design by George&Harrison. Download table of contents and introduction, and texts by Rosi Braidotti, Diedrich Diederichsen, Lisa Godson and Boris Buden.To purchase the book, please follow this link to the website of our publisher, Valiz
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- The Long 1980s. Constellations of Art, Politics and Identities. An Introduction by Nick Aikens, Teresa Grandas, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
- 'It will have been the Best of Times: thinking back to the 1980s' by Rosi Braidotti
- From Anti-Social-Liberal Punk to Intersectional Aids Activism (Sub-)Culture and Politics in Eighties Europe by Diedrich Diederichsen
- Environmental Protest in Europe in the Eighties by Lisa Godson
- When History was Gone by Boris Buden
The Constituent Museum. Constellations of Knowledge, Politics and Mediation
What would happen if museums put relationships at the centre of their operations? This question inspires this publication, which offers a diverse, rigorous, and experimental analysis of what is commonly known as education, mediation or interpretation within museum institutions. It regards the visitor not as a passive receiver of predefined content, but as an active member of a constituent body, whom it facilitates, provokes, inspires and learns from. Moving beyond the practice of mediation as such, the publication situates constituent practices of collaboration and co-production within the existing social-political (neoliberal) context. It does this to reimagine and affect both the physical and organizational structures of museums and galleries.Understanding the challenges of a constituent practice in an integral, interdisciplinary manner is what this publication aspires to. This is explored by placing the museum's constituents—museum professionals, active audience/co-curator, local and political agencies, operational structures and contexts—at the centre of the museum organization and looking at how their positions in society start to shift and change.Issues that are addressed: ownership and power dynamics, collective pedagogy, pedagogy of encounter, collaboration, assent, dissent and consent, co-labour and co-curation (economies of exchange), precarity, and working with interns, archives and how to activate them, broadcasting, digital cultivation, crowdsourcing, and many other topics. Editors: John Byrne (Lead Editor, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool), Elinor Morgan (MIMA, Middlesbrough), November Paynter (MOCA, Toronto), Aida Sánchez de Serdio (UOC, Barcelona), Adela Železnik (MG+msum, Ljubljana). Contributors: Azra Akšamija, Alberto Altés Arlandis, Burak Arikan, James Beighton, Manuel Borja-Villel, Sara Buraya, John Byrne, Jesús Carrillo, Alejandro Cevallos Narváez, Céline Condorelli, Sean Dockray, Özge Ersoy, Carmen Esbrí, Oriol Fontdevila, Amy Franceschini, Janna Graham, Nav Haq, Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, Emily Hesse, John Hill, Alistair Hudson, Adelita Husni-Bey, Kristine Khouri, Nora Landkammer, Maria Lind, Isabell Lorey, Francis McKee, Elinor Morgan, Paula Moliner, November Paynter, Manuela Pedrón Nicolau, Elliot Perkins, Bojana Piškur, Tjaša Pogačar Podgornik, Alan Quireyns, RedCSur, Rasha Salti, Francesco Salvini / pantxo ramas, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, Somateca, Igor Španjol, Nora Sternfeld, Subtramas, Tiziana Terranova, Piet Van Hecke, Onur Yıldız, Adela Železnik. 2018, Valiz with L'internationale | supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union | partners: Liverpool John Moores University, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art | paperback | 384 pp. | English | ISBN 978-94-92095-42-8 | Design by George&Harrison.Download table of contents and texts by Francis McKee, John Byrne, Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri and Nora Sternfeld.Update November 2018: we would like to inform you that the show referred to in the text by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti is no longer taking place at the Palestinian Museum.To purchase the book, please follow this link to the website of our publisher, Valiz
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- Editors' Introduction by John Byrne, Elinor Morgan, November Paynter, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, Adela Železnik
- The Rainbow Wrasse by Francis McKee
- Negotiating Jeopardy by John Byrne
- 'Give her the tools, she will know what to do with them!' by Nora Sternfeld
- Revisiting and Reconstituting Networks from Japan to Beirut to Chile by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti
L'Internationale. Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986
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- Museum of Parallel Narratives, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona (2011) by Zdenka Badovinac
- Museum of Affects, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (2011 / 12) by Bart de Baere, Bartomeu Marí, with Leen De Backer, Teresa Grandas and Bojana Piškur
- Prologue: L'Internationale by Zdenka Badovinac, Bart De Baere, Charles Esche, Bartomeu Marí and Georg Schöllhammer
- Writing History Without a Prior Canon by Bartomeu Marí
- Histories and Their Different Narrators by Zdenka Badovinac
- Approaching Art through Ensembles by Bart de Baere
- An Exercise in Affects by Bojana Piškur
- What if the Universe Started Here and Elsewhere by Steven ten Thije
- Age of Change by Christian Höller
- Connect Whom? Connect What? Why Connect? The World System after 1945 by Immanuel Wallerstein
- Recycling the R-waste (R is for Revolution) by Boris Buden
- Art as Mousetrap: The Case of Laibach by Eda Čufer
- Should Ilya Kabakov Be Awakened? by Viktor Misiano
- Forgotten in the Folds of History by Wim Van Mulders
- Is Spain Really Different? by Teresa Grandas
- KwieKulik / Form is a Fact of Society by Georg Schöllhamer
- Július Koller / Dialectics of Self-Identification by Daniel Grún
- Gorgona / Beyond Aesthetic Reality by Branka Stipancic
- OHO / A n Experimental Microcosm on the Edge of East and West by Ksenya Gurshtein
- Jef Geys and Marinus Boezem / Taking Care of the Frame by Steven ten Thije
- Paul De Vree and Toon Tersas / Hysteria Makes History by Lars Bang Larsen
- Grup de Treball and Vídeo-Nou / Two Collective Projects in 1970s Spain by Teresa Grandas
- Retroavantgarde by Inke Arns
- "A HugeAmusement-Park Exhibition" / Vision in Motion (1959) by Jan Ceuleers
- Overcoming Alienation / New Tendencies (1961–1973) by Armin Medosch
- The Furor of the Festival / Los Encuentros de Pamplona (1972) by José Días Cuyás
- The Avant-Garde, Sots-Art and the Bulldozer Exhibition of 1974 by Vitaly Komar
- Works and Words (1979) in the Shadow of I AM (1978) by Marga van Mechelen
- A European Institutional Effort / Art in Europe after '68 (1980) and Chambres d'Amis (1986) by Jan Hoet
- Southern–Eastern Contact Zones by Cristina Freire
- From the International to the Cosmopolitan by Piotr Piotrowski
- "Global" Art by Nancy Adajania
- Spirits of Internationalism, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen by Charles Esche, Steven ten Thije, Bart De Baere, Jan De Vree and Anders Kreuger
VOTI. Union of the Imaginary
March 31, 1998: New York. Carlos Basualdo and Hans-Ulrich Obrist found the digital forum Union of the Imaginary (VOTI) in a meeting with Jordan Crandall. Later in the year Susan Hapgood is invited to help run the VOTI platform. Initially established as a permanent forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to curatorial practice in the context of contemporary society, over fifty arts professionals were invited to contribute to the forum by participating in themed conversations.This e-publication gathers together hundreds of e-mails mainly sourced from Robert Fleck Archives, Lannion; and Wolfgang Staehle, Walter Palmetshofer and Max Kossatz of The Thing. There is a growing archive of materials on VOTI available at SALT.TO DOWNLOAD THE BOOK, CLICK HERE.
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- Vita VOTI by
- In Conversation by
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- VOTI FORUM Chapter I The Museum of the XXI Century by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter II The Economy of the Art World by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter III The Whitney Letter and FRACs by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter IV The Trial of Pol Pot by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter V Frieze and Artforum by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter VI Cultural Practice and War by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter VII Sensation by
- VOTI FORUM Chapter VIII ARCO 2000 by
Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power
Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power combines an exhibition with a public program of lectures, panel discussions, performances and screenings to present stories and testimonies from the history of feminist struggle in Belgium and beyond. Within that struggle,the categories of race, gender and class continue to be thoroughly intertwined, and by focusing on these intersections the project wishes to extend its scope beyond Western feminism.
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- Angela Davis Committee, 1971 by
- International tribunal on crimes against women, 4-8 March 1976 by
- Women Against the Crisis, March 7, 1981 by
- Cahiers du Grif n°29, 1984 by
- Forum 85, Nairobi by
- 19th Women's Day, November 11, 1990 by
- Black Feminism in the Netherlands by
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The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition
The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents presents a re-enactment of the last big art exhibition in Yugoslavia. Titled Yugoslav Documents '89, it was curated by the artists Jusuf Hadžifejzović and Rade Tadić and realized under the auspices of the ZOI '84 Olimpijski centar Skenderija in the 8,000-square-meter Skenderija Center in Sarajevo in 1989. This was surely one of Yugoslavia's largest exhibitions, if not, indeed, the largest. This re-enactment is interested in Yugoslav Documents primarily because this was the largest exhibition that bore the label "Yugoslav", a label that, among other things, was meant to strengthen the ideology of brotherhood and unity in the socialist federal republic.
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- An Exhibition about an Exhibition. The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents by Zdenka Badovinac
- Palimpsest of ꞌ89. Institutions of the Commons by Azra Akšamija
- Yugoslav Documents exhibition(s) by Bojana Piškur
A Temporary Futures Institute
A Temporary Futures Institute wants us to think associatively and critically about things to come rather than looking back at how previous periods imagined 'the future'. It uses the basic tools of exhibition-making – authors and audiences, pictures and stories, surfaces and spaces – to probe some possible futures. It brings professional futurists together with artists, to see what they might have in common and how they might question each other.
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The 1980s. Today's Beginnings? An alternative view on the 80s
The 1980s. Today's Beginnings? explores the long 1980s from six European perspectives, examining the relevance of this trans- formative decade for today. Placing different contexts alongside one another, the exhibition aims to offer alternative views on the recent past by allowing multiple social and cultural voices to speak to one another. The project comprises a diverse mix of artworks, music,TV, graphic and archival material, exploring a wide set of socio-political themes through the lens of culture.
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- The 80s by Nick Aikens, Charles Esche, Diana Franssen
- Talking Back by Nick Aikens, Charles Esche, Diana Franssen, Laura Herman
- Thinking Back by Nick Aikens
- NSK From Kapital to Capital by Zdenka Badovinac, Ana Mizerit, Eda Čufer
- Video Nou by Teresa Grandas
- How Did We Get Here? by Merve Elveren
- Archivo Queer by Fefa Vila Núñez
- Mediation by Gemma Medina, Daniel Neugebauer
From Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst -an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
The exhibition NSK from Kapital to Capital was the first major museum project of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) collective, and followed the events of its individual constitutive groups, from 1980 and the Laibach poster scandal in Trbovlje (Slovenia) through 1992, when the art collective transformed into the NSK State in Time. The title, NSK from Kapital to Capital, places the exhibition in the socio-political context of the turbulent 1980s, when the old world order was crumbling and the all-encompassing system of global capitalism was starting to come into its own.
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- Introduction by Zdenka Badovinac
- Neue Slowenische Kunst by
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- Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre, Cosmokinetic Theatre Rdeči pilot, and Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung by
- Builders, Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy, Film, New Collectivism, and Retrovision by
The Welfare State
The welfare state has, generally speaking, become synonymous with the synthesis of a market economy and active government that characterises both 'Western' and 'emergent' societies today. Yet there is little agreement among the many who operate and observe public social policy – politicians, civil servants, trade union leaders, social scientists, journalists, the public at large – about how the welfare state could or should be defined in more precise terms.
Really Useful Knowledge
How societies define and distribute knowledge indicates the means whereby they are structured, their dominant social order, and their degrees of inclusion and exclusion. The exhibition Really Useful Knowledge looks into diverse procedural, non-academic, anti- hierarchical, grass-root, heterodox educational situations primarily occupied with the transformative potentials of art.
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Don't You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics
Is 'identity politics' still relevant or necessary in art? We wanted to see how and why artists today addres issues of identification and subjectivity in their work. We've focused specifically on emergent practices, because we think they might help us, and our audience, to understand the here-and-now of art and to speculate on its future.
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- By Way of Introduction by Anders Kreuger, Nav Haq
- Out of the Picture: Identity Politics Finally Transcending Visibility (Or: The Invisible and the Visible, Part 2) by Nav Haq
- The After of the Title by Anders Kreuger
- Becoming Sobject: Considerations of Vehicularity and 'Wild Writing' by Travis Jeppesen
- A Double and a Split by Nida Ghouse
Minimal Resistance. Between Late Modernism and Globalisation: Artistic Practices During the 80s and 90s
With this display from its collection, the Museo Reina Sofía looks at the art produced in the eighties and nineties in Spain and within the international context. Minimal Resistance focuses on the search by artists for spaces of resistance in a globalized world, and explores the series of dualities which polarize the period in question.
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