TEXTE ZUR KUNST stands for controversial discussions and contributions by internationally leading writers on contemporary art and culture. Alongside ground-breaking essays the quarterly magazine, founded in Cologne in 1990 by Stefan Germer (†) and Isabelle Graw and published in Berlin since 2000, offers interviews, roundtable discussions and extensive reviews on art, film, music, market and fashion as well as on art history, theory and cultural politics. Since 2006 the comprehensive main section section, each time devoted to a different topic, and selected reviews are published in both German and English. With every issue internationally renowned artists support the magazine with exclusive artists’ editions.
INHALT
VORWORT
6 PREFACE
32 TOM HOLERT
POSTSCRIPT ON THE SOCIETIES OF COMFORT
48 JUTTA KOETHER
STARTING FROM THE PICTURE / Seat of Power – A Picture of Being a Woman Artist
60 BEATE SÖNTGEN
WHY DIDEROT? / A Project Outline
70 HELMUT DRAXLER
TAKING PART IN THE OTHER / Politics and Structural Ambivalence
88 SABETH BUCHMANN & CONSTANZE RUHM
SUBJECT PUT TO THE TEST
108 RAINER BELLENBAUM
DISCO, DRIFT, TEXT, CHOIR / On Elizabeth Price’s Videos
118 SVEN LÜTTICKEN
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES / Or: the Art of Obstruction
142 CLEMENS KRÜMMEL
A MINOR NINTH THAT NOBODY WANTS / On the Henry Flynt Exhibitions “Activities 1959-” in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe
SHORT CUTS
158 STILL ONE OF US? / Isabelle Graw asks Julia Gelshorn, Sebastian Egenhofer, Fiona McGovern, and Chris Reitz about the current reception of Martin Kippenberger
BILDSTRECKE
18 0DIERK SCHMIDT
BROKEN WINDOW.0
ROTATION
188 DAS FESTE UND DAS FLÜSSIGE / Simon Baier über “After Art” von David Joselit
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
194 MEHRDEUTIGKEIT OHNE MEHRDEUTIGKEIT / Manfred Hermes über “Spring Breakers” von Harmony Korine
199 FALLING INTO FLATNESS / Lukas Foerster über die 59. Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
KLANG KÖRPER
202 CLOSER DISTANCES / Christodoulos Panayiotou on “Disabled Theater” by Jérome Bel
SHORT WAVES
206 Marina Vishmidt on Rosa Barba at Turner Contemporary, Margate / Philipp Ekardt on Linder at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Martin Saar über Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf / Adrienne Rooney on John Finneran at 47 Canal, New York / Alex Kitnick on Derek Boshier at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles / Vanessa Joan Müller über Nina Pohl bei Sprüth Magers Berlin / David Reisman on Thomas Bayrle at The Artist’s Institute
REVIEWS
228 COMPLICITY AND CONTESTATION / André Rottmann on Andrea Fraser at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
234 DAS KANN MAN SO ODER SO ODER SO SEHEN / Stefan Deines über Lutz Bacher im Portikus, Frankfurt/M.
238 LITFASS VERTIGO / Oliver Tepel über Gunter Reski im Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
242 UNMAKING NORMALITY / Petra Lange-Berndt on “Glam! The Performance of Style” at Tate Liverpool
246 PHOTOSENSITIVE / Michael Darling on James Welling