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.
ISSUE 89 TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
VICTORIA CAMBLIN
SOFT AND HARD / Mike Kelley’s Tactile Return
6SAMUEL DRAXLER
WORKING IT / Kelley’s Crafts
LEIGH LEDARE
A HOLE, BUT A FLATTENED DOWN HOLE
ADAM PUTNAM
EDITORIAL COMPLEX (A RECONSTRUCTION)
MATT KEEGAN
PLAYING HOUSE
HANNAH KAHNG
BEHIND THE SCENES / Narrative and Filmic Convention in Mike Kelley’s Early Videos
ANNIE OCHMANEK
HERE COMES THE ZOO / Mike Kelley and His Audience
PIPER MARSHALL
INVESTMENT RETURNS / Mike Kelley’s “Pay for Your Pleasure”
NICOLÁS GUAGNINI
ITALICS MINE / Deformation, Modification, Exaggeration
SAM LEWITT
STARE NAKED
MORE THAN COULD EVER BE SUPPRESSED / A conversation about Mike Kelley between Philipp Kaiser, Jutta Koether, and Martin Prinzhorn, moderated by Oona Lochner
BILDSTRECKE
JIM SHAW
ROTATION
CUTE OVERLOAD / Gregor Quack über „Our Aesthetic Categories. Zany, Cute, Interesting“ von Sianne Ngai
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
UNTER DEM PFLASTER LIEGT DER STRAND / Esther Buss über Olivier Assayas’ „Après Mai“
MOVING IN CIRCLES / Sven Lütticken on Oskar Fischinger at EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam
KLANG KÖRPER
FARBKLANG / Christoph Gurk über „Art and Music – Search for New Synesthesia“ im Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio
SHORT WAVES
Claire Fontaine on Michael Krebber at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux / Ann-Kathrin Strecker über Anri Sala und Edi Rama in der Galerie Rüdinger Schöttle, München / Mathieu Malouf on Trisha Baga at Greene Naftali, New York / Jenny Nachtigall über Jenni Tischer in der Galerie Krobath, Berlin / Barbara Paul über „Rosa Arbeit auf goldener Straße“ in den Ausstellungsräumen XHIBIT der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
BESPRECHUNGEN
BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
Rachel Haidu on Rosemarie Trockel at the New Museum, New York
AMERICAN IDOL
Daniel Horn on Mike Kelley at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
SCHILLERNDES SCHWARZ
Catharina Kahane über Kerry James Marshall in der Wiener Secession
HUNGER, FUSSBALL, AIDS
Johannes Paul Raether über das Projekt „Prêt-à-partager“ des Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Berlin / Stuttgart
SURFACE STUDIES
Maggie Taft on R.H. Quaytman at The Renaissance Society, Chicago
SZENISCHE KOLLABORATIONEN
Sabeth Buchmann und Rike Fran