MaHKUzine: Journal of Artistic Research, 1-10 (2006-2011)

MaHKUzine is an international publication in both hard copy and website form. The journal embarks on a topical discourse in artistic research implying visual art, editorial design, fashion design, interior design, and public space design. The magazine offers symposia reports, articles by guest lecturers, staff and research reports.

Editorial board: Henk Slager (General Editor), Annette W. Balkema, Arjen Mulder
Publisher: Utrecht School of the Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design

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MaHKUzine#1 Is the medium still the message?, summer 2006, PDF
MaHKUzine#2 Critical Methodologies, winter 2007, PDF
MaHKUzine#3 Design Solutions, summer 2007, Issuu
MaHKUzine#4 The Politics of Design, winter 2008, Issuu
MaHKUzine#5 A Certain MA-ness, summer 2008, Issuu
MaHKUzine#6 Spatial Practices, winter 2009, Issuu
MaHKUzine#7 Nameless Science, summer 2009, PDF
MaHKUzine#8 Epistemic Encounters, winter 2010, PDF
MaHKUzine#9 Doing Dissemination, summer 2010, PDF
MaHKUzine#10, winter 2011, Issuu

Raqs Media Collective: Seepage (2010)

Raqs is a word in Persian, Arabic and Urdu and means the state that “whirling dervishes” enter into when they whirl. It is also a word used for dance. At the same time, Raqs could be an acronym, standing for “rarely asked questions”…!

This book gathers together a compilation of texts authored by Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta). Raqs has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors, and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events, locates them at the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research, and theory—often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances, and encounters. They live and work in Delhi, based at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2000. They are members of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series. In 2008 they were co-curators of the Manifesta 7 biennale.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Lightbox,” Tate Britain, London (2009), and “Escapement,” Frith Street Gallery, London (2009); group exhibitions include “Experimental Geography,” travelling exhibition, Canada and USA (2008–11), and “Indian Highway,” Serpentine Gallery, London (2008) and Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2009).

Publisher: Sternberg Press, April 2010
ISBN 978-1-933128-86-3
176 pages

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Nikos Papastergiadis: Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (2006/2010)

This book examines the most recent shifts in contemporary art practice. By working with artists and closely observing the way in which they relate to urban space and engage other people, locally and globally, Nikos Papastergiadis provides a critical account of the transformation of art and public culture. He shows art has sought to democratise the big issues of our time and utilize new information technologies. While the concept of the everyday highlights the potential for transformation at the level of the individual, at the same time it has to be seen as a critique of broader structures; in this book Papastergiadis stresses the importance of situating a work within art history as well as relating it to its social context. Spatial Aesthetics will help artists, curators and cultural workers think about the ways they intervene in public life. Challenging recent declarations in the art world that theory is obsolete, it seeks to show how art uses ideas, and how everyone can be involved in the ideas of politics and art.

Originally published by Rivers Oram Press, 2006.
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2010
Theory on Demand series, No. 5
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License
ISBN 9789081602136
135 pages

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