Klaus Groh (ed.): Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa (1972) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, action art, art, avant-garde, body art, conceptual art, east-central europe, eastern europe, land art
“This book by the West-German mail artist, editor and collector Klaus Groh, published in 1972, was an important contribution to familiarizing Western Europe with Eastern-European, primarily conceptual art and land art, body art, action, etc. This frequently cited publication includes works by 78 artists.” (Source)
Publisher DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne, 1972
ISBN 3770106172, 9783770106172
222 pages
via Artpool Budapest
&&& Journal, 0: Tachophobia // Tachomania (2015)
Filed under journal | Tags: · accelerationism, aesthetics, art, philosophy, speed
“Issue 000 accentuates and renders visible the divergences and unexpected overlaps between “tachophobia” (fear of speed) and “tachomania” (obsession with speed), in the ongoing debates over accelerationism that have followed the publication of Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ “#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”.”
With texts by Benjamin Noys, Ivan Niccolai, Tom McGlynn, Sam Sackeroff, and Chris Shambaugh.
Edited by Jason Adams, Mohammad Salemy, and Tony Yanick
Publisher &&& Publishing, Spring 2015
Chris Kraus: I Love Dick (1997)
Filed under fiction | Tags: · biography, contemporary art, love, theory
“In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It’s no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers.
The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband—and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first person narrative.
I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn’t afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the injustice in world—and it’s a book you won’t put down until the author’s final acts of self-revelation and transformation.”
Publisher Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 1997
Native Agents series
ISBN 1570270465, 9781570270468
275 pages
Review: Joan Hawkins (CTheory, 2001), Zofia Krawiec (Szum, 2016, PL).
Commentary: Tereza Stejskalová (Artalk, 2016, CZ), McKenzie Wark (Public Seminar, 2016).
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