IDEA Arts + Society (2003–) [Romanian/English]

Idea 36-37, 2010

Idea 35, 2010

“IDEA art+society is a multiannual publication produced by IDEA, Cluj. It is published under its current form since 2003.

Allegiance to the exigency of genuine theory – a theory which is, first of all, its own practice – this is the program of IDEA arts+society magazine. This means: the practice of the concerned eye, which can be rigorous solely through the unconditional solidarity with the concrete. It is a practice of thinking which is alien to any aestheticism, hostile to any institutionalized transcendence, immune to the biased fiction of ideological neutrality, and remote from the pernicious language of our contemporary culture of ‘experts.’ In brief, it is the practice of critical and defiant reflection, dramatically lacking in the intellectual-civic debates of present-day Romania.

The graphical and logical operator ‘+’ functions as the material figura of all these dimensions, to which we can add artistic education and the public influence of art. The various ways of deciphering this sign suggest the manifold articulations between the artistic and the social realm. That is, the political.”

IDEA artă + societate / IDEA arts + society
Editors: Bogdan Ghiu, Ciprian Mureșan, Timotei Nădășan (editor-in-chief), Alexandru Polgár, Adrian T. Sîrbu, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea
ISSN 1583–8293

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e-cart, contemporary art magazine, Nr. 1-8 (2003-2007) [English/Romanian]

e-cart.ro is a contemporary art magazine in an exclusively electronic format. It is an independent and not-for-profit initiative, founded in 2003 by Raluca Voinea, Simona Nastac, Eduard Constantin and Madalin Geana.

The magazine features exhibition reviews, interviews, artist portfolios, projects presentations, and texts by art critics, curators and artists. It aims at creating a space of encounter between contemporary art in Romania and abroad.

Issue 8, 2007
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Issue 7, March 2006
Art in Eastern Europe
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Issue 6, August 2005
The Venice Biennale; Archives (part I); Exhibitions; Projects
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Issue 5, September 2004
Artnetlab in Maribor, at the International Festival of Computer Arts; Identity and language; Diploma projects; etc.
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Issue 4, May 2004
Art/artists and spaces; Berlin Biennial 3; Vienna days in Bucharest; etc.
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Issue 3, February 2004
Education in/with Art
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Issue 2, November 2003
Istanbul Biennial 2003; Workshop: Real Presence 3 – Belgrad – 2003; etc.
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Issue 1, September 2003
Periferic 6 in Iasi: “Prophetic Corners”; H.arta group; Dan Perjovschi; Diploma projects
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Editors: Raluca Voinea and Simona Nastac
Publisher: e-cart.ro, Bucharest

Jonathan Harris (ed.): Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art (2004)

This collection of essays sets out to identify and examine the kinds of new institutions and social relations that have emerged and begun to shape the global organisation of contemporary visual art over the past twenty-five years. These institutions and relations, contributors argue, are not simply implicated in the exhibition of art – more than that, they have come to play significant roles in commissioning art production as well as mediating its reception in a number of different ways. Given this reorganisation, the set of concepts through which the ‘art world’ can be thought must be radically reviewed. Developments and transformations in, for example, patronage and managerial arrangements – on a global scale – have begun to outrun existing assumptions, categories and accounts. Terms such as ‘institution’, ‘means of production’ and ‘art world’ itself are invoked and critically scrutinised in all of the essays in this book. Some authors address these and other concepts within detailed empirical case studies, others by experimental application of novel theoretical premises.

This collection also includes discussion by those directly involved in the production and selling of contemporary art, reviewing the increasingly internationalised network now ordering contemporary art’s conditions of production, mediation and consumption. This book shows the complex interaction of the socio-political forces that bear on the art world as well as the tensions between those with different interests in art, raising vital questions about the changed relations between art, society and politics.

Publisher Liverpool University Press, 2004
Volume 7 of Tate Liverpool Critical Forum
ISBN 0853237395, 9780853237396
216 pages

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