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.
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.
Glenn Adamson discusses the working methods behind Pae White’s fleeting, everyday beauty.
Watch video footage of Lucy Lippard in conversation with Lucy Steeds, the second in our series of talks analysing exhibitions through the personal accounts of the curators responsible for them.
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.
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.
Glenn Adamson discusses the working methods behind Pae White’s fleeting, everyday beauty.
Watch video footage of Lucy Lippard in conversation with Lucy Steeds, the second in our series of talks analysing exhibitions through the personal accounts of the curators responsible for them.
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’.
Fatima Hellberg talks to Cynthia Maughan about her dark and funny early video works and her anti-essentialist approach to politics of representation.
Nickolas Calabrese reflects upon Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zone and its bearing on collectives from Bernadette Corporation to Occupy.
Mirtes Marins de Oliveira examines contemporary readings of Brazilian art history in her review of Claudia Calirman’s recent book on the work of Artur Barrio, Antonio Manuel and Cildo Meireles.
Ellen Feiss talks with Dana Yahalomi, the leader of ‘performative research body’ Public Movement, about their project Rebranding European Muslims.
Christian Höller examines Ahlam Shibli’s move to ‘conceal the visible’ in her photographs, and her opting for a different mode of representation for her subjects.
Video documentation of Afterall's ‘Artist as Curator’ symposium is now available. View talks by Elena Crippa, Ekaterina Degot, Elena Filipovic, Alison Green, Ruth Noack, Willem de Rooij, Valerie Smith and David Teh here.
Watch video footage of Ute Meta Bauer in conversation with Iwona Blazwick, the first in our new series of talks analysing exhibitions through the personal accounts of the curators responsible for them.
Travis Riley profiles Corin Sworn’s recent slide and film installations, finding in them a persistent desire to blur the accounts of the past and question their hold on the present.
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.
Books
Watch video footage of Cornelia Butler’s talk ‘The Display of Art is a Political Act: Lucy Lippard’s Feminist Curatorial Turn’ from the Vancouver Art Gallery launch of our Exhibition Histories book From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard’s Numbers Shows 1969–74.
