Nav Haq reports on the contemporary art scene in Lahore, suggesting that it is art schools rather than galleries that are the hub of its active artistic community.
The fourth title in the Exhibition Histories series focuses on ‘Magiciens de la Terre’, an exhibition in Paris in 1989 bringing together over a hundred artists, around half from the ‘West’ and half from elsewhere.
Trevor Paglen revisits the story of the Pioneer Plaque and the Golden Record, launched into space in the 1970s, to consider the ethical responsibilities inherent in imagining the other.
Video documentation of the symposium ‘Artist as Curator: Collaborative Practices is now available. View talks and discussion by Clémentine Deliss, Liu Ding, Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler.
Ruth Noack offers the first sustained examination of Sanja Iveković’s widely exhibited, now canonical artwork, Triangle (Trokut, 1979).
Issue 32 looks at image-making through the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair, David Claerbout, Ahlam Shibli, James Welling and Pae White. Trevor Paglen discusses the limits of communication, while accompanying essays consider the images of the financial crisis and Pontus Hultén’s 1966 exhibition ‘HON’.
Nav Haq reports on the contemporary art scene in Lahore, suggesting that it is art schools rather than galleries that are the hub of its active artistic community.
The fourth title in the Exhibition Histories series focuses on ‘Magiciens de la Terre’, an exhibition in Paris in 1989 bringing together over a hundred artists, around half from the ‘West’ and half from elsewhere.
Trevor Paglen revisits the story of the Pioneer Plaque and the Golden Record, launched into space in the 1970s, to consider the ethical responsibilities inherent in imagining the other.
Video documentation of the symposium ‘Artist as Curator: Collaborative Practices is now available. View talks and discussion by Clémentine Deliss, Liu Ding, Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler.
Ruth Noack offers the first sustained examination of Sanja Iveković’s widely exhibited, now canonical artwork, Triangle (Trokut, 1979).
Issue 32 looks at image-making through the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair, David Claerbout, Ahlam Shibli, James Welling and Pae White. Trevor Paglen discusses the limits of communication, while accompanying essays consider the images of the financial crisis and Pontus Hultén’s 1966 exhibition ‘HON’.
José Díaz Cuyás reflects upon Yves Klein’s participation in the shockumentary Mondo Cane, considering the 1960s passion for anthropophagy as a symptom of the incipient experience economy.
Sabeth Buchmann and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz offer a critical examination of Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa – program in progress (1973–74) and consider its vast catalog of references.
Glenn Adamson discusses the working methods behind Pae White’s fleeting, everyday beauty.
Journal
‘Ivan Kožarić: Freedom is a Rare Bird’ opens at Haus der Kunst, Munich on 21 June. For more on Kožarić’s radically self-questioning practice see texts by Ana Dević and Branka Stipančić in the Autumn/Winter 2012 issue of Afterall journal.
Afterall co director Charles Esche has been announced the curator of the São Paulo Biennial 2014. Esche has been looking closely at the 1998 edition for an upcoming Afterall Exhibition Histories book and is looking forward to contributing to the long and impressive history of the biennal. He will lead a team including Afterall editor Pablo Lafuente. Read more here.
Journal
The current issue of Afterall is now available to all subscribers as an e-book. The Spring 2013 issue looks at image-making through the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair, David Claerbout, Ahlam Shibli, James Welling and Pae White. Subscribe to Afterall to access the e-book edition of this issue and all our back issues online.
