transversal, 06/14: Insurrection of the Published (2014) [DE, EN, ES]
Filed under journal | Tags: · academia, commons, copyright, creative commons, knowledge, open access, politics, publishing, theory
“The publishing industry is in a fundamental crisis. In its final hours it is beginning to lash out, but only hits itself. As much as academic apparatuses and cultural industries wrestle with conformity, the traditional forms of knowledge production remain just as incompatible with the new media conditions as with future emancipatory concatenations of writing, translating and publicly negotiating publications. “The Insurrection of the Published” emerges in these concatenations beyond the domestication of styles, forms and formats, beyond valorization and self-valorization, beyond the hegemonic mechanisms of exclusion like peer reviews, impact factors, ranking, and rigid copyright regimes.”
With contributions by EIPCP, Isabell Lorey, Otto Penz, Gerald Raunig, Birgit Sauer, Ruth Sonderegger, Stevphen Shukaitis, Traficantes de Sueños, Felix Stalder, and an Anonymous Iranian Collective.
Aufstand der Verlegten / Insurrection of the Published / Insurrección de los editados
Publisher EIPCP, Vienna, 2014
Copyleft
ISSN 1811-1696
Barbora Kleinhamplová, Tereza Stejskalová: Who is an Artist? (2015) [EN/CZ]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, contemporary art, interview
A collection of interviews about the social implications of being an artist today. With Hito Steyerl, Boris Groys, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Silvia Federici, Boris Buden, Precarious Workers Brigade, Artur Żmijewski, Igor Stokfiszewski, Chto Delat?, and Bureau of Melodramatic Research.
With illustrations by Alexey Klyuykov and Laďa Gažiová
Publisher Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 2015
Open Access
ISBN 9788087108550
143 & 129 pages
Who is an Artist? (English section, Academia.edu)
Kdo je to umělec? (Czech section, Academia.edu)
Andrey Kovalev: Russian Actionism, 1990-2000 (2007–) [RU, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1990s, action art, art, art criticism, contemporary art, happening, performance, performance art, politics, russia
A survey of 450 performances, actions and happenings held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and elsewhere. Descriptions and photo documentation are accompanied by press coverage and testimonies of participants and witnesses.
A ten-page English summary published in Artchronika magazine is introduced as follows:
“The phrase “performance in the 1990s” immediately evokes several images: Oleg Kulik slaughtering a pig at Regina Gallery; Anatoly Osmolovsky sitting on the shoulder of the Mayakovsky monument; Oleg Kulik again, this time attacking passers-by like a rabid dog; Alexander Brener masturbating on the diving board at the Moscow swimming pool or calling out Boris Yeltsin to fight on Red Square; the barricade erected on Nikitskaya Ulitsa; members of the Radek group on top of Lenin’s mausoleum; the crucifixion of Oleg Mavromatti; and so on. These stories have become pure myth, retold with breathy excitement and longing for glory days lost to the past, or cited in various criminal court cases.”
Special issue of WAM (World Art Музей), 28-29, Moscow, 2007.
ISSN 1726-3050
416 pages
English excerpts
Published in Artchronika, Spring-Summer 2008, pp 108-117
Российский акционизм. 1990-2000 (Russian, 2007, 21 MB)
Gestures of an Era, or the Era of Gestures (English, 2008)