Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Jess Baines

Jess Baines looks back at London's printmaking workshops of the 1970s and 80s, DIY sites of political and community activism that rejected the traditional role of the artist to participate in a network of campaign groups, radical publishers and alternative distributors.

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer

Film-maker Duncan Campbell speaks to Tate curator Stuart Comer about his new film, Make it new John, a combination of documentary and fiction chronicling the automaker John DeLorean.

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Hendrik Folkerts

Looking at 'rebelle', a recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Arnhem, Hendrik Folkerts considers what it means to write a history of feminism.

The German Issue

The German Issue

Annette Weisser

This year Semiotext(e) republished The German Issue, a compendium of French and German theory edited by Sylvère Lotringer in 1982. Annette Weisser looks back at its appearance in the German intellectual context at the time, and considers what its reissue suggests now.

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Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Jess Baines

Free Radicals

Jess Baines

Jess Baines looks back at London's printmaking workshops of the 1970s and 80s, DIY sites of...

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart...

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer

Film-maker Duncan Campbell speaks to Tate curator Stuart Comer about his new film, Make it new...

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Hendrik Folkerts

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Hendrik Folkerts

Looking at 'rebelle', a recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Arnhem, Hendrik Folkerts...

The German Issue

The German Issue

Annette Weisser

The German Issue

Annette Weisser

This year Semiotext(e) republished The German Issue, a compendium of French and German theory edited by...

The 11th Istanbul Biennial

The 11th Istanbul Biennial

Pablo Lafuente, Maria Muhle, Pip Day

The 11th Istanbul Biennial

Pablo Lafuente, Maria Muhle, Pip Day

Pip Day, Pablo Lafuente and Maria Muhle discuss what the 2009 Istanbul Biennial means for the...

The Archival Fourth Dimension

The Archival Fourth Dimension

Sarah Pierce

The Archival Fourth Dimension

Sarah Pierce

In this video essay, Sarah Pierce excerpts four Irish-language television programmes from the 1950s and 60s...

Breaking and Entering

Breaking and Entering

Mary Walling Blackburn

Breaking and Entering

Mary Walling Blackburn

Trespassing in an industrial yard in the south Bronx, Mary Walling Blackburn comes into contact with...

Artists at Work: Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin

Artists at Work: Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin

Audrey Chan

Artists at Work: Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin

Audrey Chan

In our Artists at Work series, Audrey Chan interviews Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin, whose mock-courtroom...

Adventures in the Valley

Adventures in the Valley

Polly Braden, David Campany

Adventures in the Valley

Polly Braden, David Campany

Afterall's first photo-essay, by Polly Braden and...

Place and Space: Theories of Topographic Narratives

Place and Space: Theories of Topographic Narratives

Matthew Green

Place and Space: Theories of Topographic Narratives

Matthew Green

Matthew Green considers the importance of maps and topography to current historiographical accounts, as in the...

Displacement and Translation in the Work of Stephen Prina

Displacement and Translation in the Work of Stephen Prina...

Pedro de Llano

Displacement and Translation in the Work of Stephen Prina

Pedro de Llano

The origin of much of Stephen Prina's work lies in his appropriation of cultural artefacts. Whether...

The biennial for the sake of the biennial…? Fourth Prague Biennial 2009

The biennial for the sake of the biennial…? Fourth...

Markéta Stará

The biennial for the sake of the biennial…? Fourth Prague Biennial 2009

Markéta Stará

Since the Velvet Revolution in 1989 the Czech art scene has undergone a number of...

Approaching Unreal Asia: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2009

Approaching Unreal Asia: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2009...

George Clark

Approaching Unreal Asia: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2009

George Clark

'Does realism have any native counterpart in Asian aesthetics?' With this question the Thailand-based curators Gridthiya...

'Après Crépuscule' at the Cologne Kunstverein

'Après Crépuscule' at the Cologne Kunstverein

Manuel Gnam

'Après Crépuscule' at the Cologne Kunstverein

Manuel Gnam

The recent group exhibition 'Après Crépuscule' ('After Twilight') at the Cologne Kunstverein revealed the hermetic world of...

'suddenly: where we live now' at the Pomona College Museum of Art

'suddenly: where we live now' at the Pomona College...

Mia Locks

'suddenly: where we live now' at the Pomona College Museum of Art

Mia Locks

Less a theme and more a mood, uncertainty seems to be the unlikely anchor of...

'Twenty Seven Senses' at Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund

'Twenty Seven Senses' at Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund

Melissa Gronlund

'Twenty Seven Senses' at Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund

Melissa Gronlund

In 1937 Kurt Schwitters fled Germany, fearing arrest by the Gestapo, and travelled to the northwest...

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