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Books: Curating With Light Luggage This book originated in a symposium which was one module of the project Telling Histories. With contributions by Mabe Bethonico and Liam Gillick, curated by Ana Paula Cohen, Sören Grammel and Maria Lind at Kunstverein München in fall 2003, the project as a whole was an attempt to consciously encompass and to actively discuss the mediation of contemporary art. It was an effort to acknowledge the crisis of traditional curating but also to offer examples for debate, by reflecting on and critically assessing historical and actual models of art institutions, individuals and/or organisations that deal with production and circulation of art and ideas in an experimental and flexible way, with light luggage so to speak. Ana Paula Cohen, a curator from Sao Paolo who initiated the symposium and who was seminal in selecting the participants, made sure that the contributions take into consideration the complexity of artistic practices since the 1960s - that can adopt a wide range of formats, in many cases focused on strategies that establish relations between different systems or disciplines rather than producing a final visual object. The contributions also consider as relevant the necessity of creating these platforms in different cultural, economical and political contexts. Thus Minerva Cuevas, Clementine Deliss, Cristina Freire, Liam Gillick, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Barbara Steiner highlight, discuss and contest various aspects of this complex development, giving necessary suggestions of possible parallel ways of thinking and acting. Modest Proposals, Charles Esche Modest Proposals, written by Charles Esche, co-curator of the 9th International İstanbul Biennial, is published by Bağlam Yayınları. The book, published as one bilingual volume in English and Turkish, is edited by Serkan Özkaya and the original texts are translated into Turkish by Tuğba Doğan. Modest Proposals'brings together eleven articles by Esche and an interview of Beti Zerovc with the author. The book is roughly divided into 3 parts. The first part consists of five articles that focuses on drawing a theoretical framework on the concept of modest proposals. These articles bring forth the function of art as a medium for indicating new possibilities from the curator's point of view. Then comes the second set of articles that is written by Esche on a series of works -including artists and artist groups like Superflex and Pawel Althamer who participated in this year's İstanbul Biennial. Through these examples, Esche materializes and deepens the concept he puts forward. In the last part, Beti Zerovc makes a dynamic interview with Esche, expressing the different perspectives which perhaps we all wished to ask to the curator. Nearly all the articles in the book were published in different periodicals, books, catalogues or monographies before. But in this book, Esche appears for the first time as a writer with a collection of his articles. Szene Türkei: Abseits, Aber Tor!, Vasif Kortun & Erden Kosova Szene Türkei: Abseits, Aber Tor! is the first publication to discuss the contemporary art scene in Turkey in the historical and sociopolitical context of the country. It presents the most important artists in topical chapters and visual essays. This development reflects the process of political democratization and the discussion on the entry to the European Union. History, Shahrzad Collective These days, it seems that even in those prosperous, provincial environs we call the West history is becoming a more complex affair than the Eurocentric teleology of “how we ended up the joyous pinnacle of civilization, happy as pigs in shit”. History, along with other officious narratives, is now widely consumed with the same deference as a soap opera or a fashion magazine. Find out more in the SHAHRZAD collective's new historiographical sourcebook, History, parts I & II. The [un] common place. Art, public space and urban aesthetics in Europe, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi The [un]common place is the result of the research project Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe, a journey through creative practices between art, architecture and urban research that are redefining the concept of public space in Europe. A “common place”, a shared vision from Norway to Turkey, from Spain to Bulgaria, from Cyprus to Rumania, emerged from the more than fifty artists and projects documented in this book. Artists, institutions and society are searching for new relations to experiment unforeseen forms of cohabitation, mutual understanding and visions of the urban landscape. The book, organised in five thematic chapters, presents a European interpretation of public space resulting from complexity and difference, translation and memory. The enclosed DVD features the cycle of three documentary films that are part of the project. Interviews with artists, curators, architects, critics and intellectuals, realised in eleven European cities, introduce the context of the artworks and the thematics explored in the book. Magazines: Internationaler The Internationaler is a new magazine published in the North of England, the editorial board is comprised of artists living and working in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield. Although the magazine will be well represented in the North its content will not be restricted to events and projects based in the North. Rather it is intended that the magazine will fill a gap in arts coverage and also cover projects that are based outside or beyond the usual gallery context. The magazine adds to our picture of contemporary art without having to do this in a provincial display of opposition to art's global centres. The magazine contains no advertising and is published four times a year. AS 175 Published by the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA, the quarterly journal for theorizing visual culture AS has been going strong since the late seventies, presenting its Dutch readership with original contributions and first-time translations of key texts and essays on a wide array of subjects and topics from the broader field of contemporary visual culture, art and politics. In its first ever English-language issue, AS has seized the opportunity of the 9th İstanbul Biennial to devote a special edit on to İstanbul -- not so much the city itself as the labyrinth in a complex of concepts and ideas the contemporary metropolis embodies. Bringing together a wide range of reflections on European identity, Europolitics and gender issues, Ottoman urbanism & urbanity, museum architecture & city marketing, and everyday life in the city on the Bosphorus, AS175 will feature contributions by Marta Kuzma, Dieter Lesage, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Orhan Pamuk, Dieter Roelstraete, Charles Esche & Vasif Kortun and many others. Published on the occasion of both the İstanbul Biennial and the Eindhoven İstanbul exhibition at the nearby Van Abbemuseum, AS will be present at both locales from October onwards. What is to be done with the the Balkan art?, Ursa Junman & Barbara Borcic The publication What is to be done with the ‘Balkan art? is concluding the research project What is to be done with the ‘Balkan art? which started in 1999. The intention of the publication is to reflect and analyze the intense interest – which we can discern in the field of art and theory especially during last years – in the (re)invention and (re)definition of the Balkans and ‘Balkan art’. Within the publication we focused specially on reflection of the recent interest of prominent curators and art institutions (for example: In Search of Balkania, P. Weibel, E. Cufer, R. Conover, Neue Galerie in Graz; Blood and Honey – Future’s in the Balkans, H. Szeemann, Sammlung Essl in Klosterneubur; and In the Gorges of the Balkans – A Report, R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel) for the contemporary arts in the Balkan region. We were interested in deciphering the economical, political and ideological mechanisms connected to the interest of the international art system for the art in the Balkans. At the same time the topic of the publication is connected with the operations of a contemporary art system, its alternating dominants, focuses, interests and constructed trends as well as with its influence on the local and regional milieu. Bidoun
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