14 09 08

Art and Contemporary Critical Practice
Reinventing Institutional Critique

Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray (eds)

New publication with texts from the project transform. Contributors: Boris Buden, Rosalyn Deutsche, Marcelo Expósito, Marina Garcés, Brian Holmes, Jens Kastner, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Nina Möntmann, Stefan Nowotny, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, Simon Sheikh, Hito Steyerl, Universidad Nómada, Paolo Virno

14 09 08 - Tom Waibel

Who is really free? Antonio Negri and the Prison

In her DVD-project “Antonio Negri. The Cell” (Actor Publisher, Barcelona/New York 2008) Angela Melitopoulos presents an arrangement of more than two hours of video-material based on three interviews with the famous Italian philosopher focusing on problems of exile, imprisonment, freedom and the construction of personal joy and community.

13 09 08

Producción cultural y prácticas instituyentes. Líneas de ruptura en la crítica institucional

The spanish autonomous publisher Traficantes de Sueños announces a reader including 12 out of more than 100 transversal-texts published during the transform project. Those 12 texts have been articulated so that the book consists in a choral critical work around the axis: cultural production / creative class/ institutional critique.

13 09 08

Instituierende Praxen
Bruchlinien der Institutionskritik

Gerald Raunig / Stefan Nowotny | Wien: Turia + Kant 2008

In their new book, philosophers Stefan Nowotny and Gerald
Raunig include theoretical lines of rupture around the incipient
question "What is institutional critique?", develop thoughts on new
forms of institution and introduce neologisms as "monster institutions"
or "instituent practices".

12 09 08 - Martin Büsser

nicht alles tun. Reader zum zivilen und sozialen Ungehorsam in Kunst und Praxis
cannot do everything. A reader on civil and social disobedience in art and practice

Der bei Unrast erschienene Reader "nicht alles tun", herausgegeben von Jens Kastner und Bettina Spörr, erforscht zivilen und sozialen Ungehorsam an den Schnittstellen von Kunst, radikaler Politik und Technologie.

11 09 08

Reggio Emilia, Stadt der Rechte? Europäische Unterstützungskampagne für das Wohnprojekt des Collettivo Sottotetto im Viertel Compagnoni in Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia. An open city? European solidarity campaign for the Collettivo Sottotetto housing project in the Compagnoni quarter of Reggio Emilia, Italy
Reggio Emilia, città aperta? Campagna europea di solidarietà per il progetto case del Collettivo Sottotetto nel quartiere Compagnoni, Reggio Emilia, Italia

03 09 08

A World Where Many Worlds Fit
A World Where Many Worlds Fit (Un mundo en el que caben muchos mundos)

Artist Oliver Ressler curates a section on the counter-globalisation movement for the Taipei Biennial 2008, featuring works by Christopher DeLaurenti, Etcétera, Petra Gerschner, John Jordan, Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, RTMark, Allan Sekula, Gregory Sholette, Nuria Vila & Marcelo Expósito, Dmitry Vilensky.

29 08 08

New Issue of Chto Delat Confiscated and Under Investigation
El último número del periódico Chto Delat?, confiscado e investigado por la policía

On the evening of August 27, the new issue of the Russian art&politics-newspaper Chto Delat (No. 19: What does it mean to lose?) was confiscated at a militia raid at the printers in Petersburg.

28 07 08

Marcelo Expósito: First of May (the City-Factory)

Now available for private purchase: the DVD edition of "First of May (the City-Factory)", first video of "Between Dreams", a video-series by Marcelo Expósito. The video opens a dialogue with the concept of "virtuosity" used by the political philosopher Paolo Virno to describe new figures of labour as well as certain emergent trends of political action.

18 06 08 - Rodrigo Nunes

Learning from porcupines: Analytic war machines and an ethics of intervention

Félix Guattari's and Suely Rolnik's book Micropolitical Revolution in Brazil, only recently published in English by Semiotext(e) / MIT Press, gives us a glimpse into both the activist and the thinker Guattari.

11 06 08

Artist cleared of all charges in precedent-setting case

Department of Justice Fails to Appeal Dismissal. Kurtz Speaks about Four-Year Ordeal

Buffalo, NY--Dr. Steven Kurtz, a Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY at Buffalo and cofounder of the award-winning art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble, has been cleared of all charges of mail and wire fraud.

03 06 08 - Branka Ćurčić

Art and Its Own Power

Review of the latest book by Boris Groys - “Art Power”. The book reveals some of the contradictions of modern art, where the lines to today's power assigned to art - exclusively based on the existing free market, the art market – could be drawn from.

16 05 08 - Gene Ray

‘The Central Fire’: History and the Predicament of Critique

A response to eipcp's conference "The Art of Critique", held in April 2008. The texts of the conference themselves will be published in two upcoming issues of the web journal transversal in August and November 2008.

02 05 08 - Gerald Raunig

On the Breach
La Brecha
Die Bresche

In Artforum's new issue on '68 as "the great refusal" Gerald Raunig discusses the twofold meaning of "la brèche": This expression, attributed to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was used around '68 to refer to the breach that rebellious students and workers were able to force in French universities, factories, and streets. Significantly, it also appears in the title of a remarkable book by Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, and Edgar Morin - Mai 1968: La Brèche. Premières Réflexions sur les événements.

25 04 08 - Bert Theis

"Reds against the wall" - Bad News from Isola, Milan

Isola district in Milano is struggling hard to survive in a difficult political and cultural context, being the target of capitalist and neo-nazi aggressions. Two days after the victory of right wing parties at the Italian elections, the Isola Art Project has once again been aggressed.