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We Are the Children of Marx and Google

We Are the Children of Marx and Google

Will Bradley

We Are the Children of Marx and Google

Will Bradley

Will Bradley reviews Proud to Be Flesh , the anthology of writings over the...

Published 08.04.10

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The Skein of the Archive: Denise Bellon and Remembrance of Things to Come

The Skein of the Archive: Denise Bellon and Remembrance...

Janet Harbord

The Skein of the Archive: Denise Bellon and Remembrance of Things to Come

Janet Harbord

Janet Harbord considers the photographs of French interwar photographer Denise Bellon, which Chris Marker assembled...

Published 23.03.10

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Experimental Support/Structures for Moving Images

Experimental Support/Structures for Moving Images

Nicole Wolf

Experimental Support/Structures for Moving Images

Nicole Wolf

Nicole Wolf surveys the latest edition of Experimenta in Bangalore, the Indian festival of experimental...

Published 09.03.10

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Notes on 3 Triptychs

Notes on 3 Triptychs

Lamia Joreige

Notes on 3 Triptychs

Lamia Joreige

Lamia Joreige considers the frontier between the conscious and the unconscious in the work of...

Published 23.02.10

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The Triangulation of Value

The Triangulation of Value

Nav Haq

The Triangulation of Value

Nav Haq

Responding to two papers given by Diedrich Diederichsen and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Nav Haq considers...

Published 09.02.10

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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...

Published 28.01.10

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Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell

Stuart Comer

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell

Stuart Comer

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

Published 14.01.10

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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...

Published 21.12.09

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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...

Published 08.12.09

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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...

Published 01.12.09

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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...

Published 23.11.09

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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...

Published 12.11.09

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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

Audrey Chan interviews Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin, whose mock-courtroom performances question the rights of...

Published 03.11.09

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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 David Campany, chronicles the River Lea in east...

Published 12.10.09

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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...

Published 20.09.09

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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....

Published 07.09.09

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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...

Published 13.08.09

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Approaching Unreal Asia: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2009

Approaching Unreal Asia: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 20...

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...

Published 10.07.09

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'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...

Published 08.06.09

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On Language and the Public Art of Lothar Baumgarten

On Language and the Public Art of Lothar Baumgarten...

Cornelia Lauf

On Language and the Public Art of Lothar Baumgarten

Cornelia Lauf

Critical language, in reviews and catalogue essays, often reflects the subject it seeks to canvas....

Published 29.05.09

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'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...

Published 27.05.09

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'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...

Published 19.05.09

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On Lygia Clark's Structuring the Self

On Lygia Clark's Structuring the Self

Lars Bang Larsen, Suely Rolnik

On Lygia Clark's Structuring the Self

Lars Bang Larsen, Suely Rolnik

The work of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark has been described as notoriously difficult to present....

Published 01.05.09

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Cyprien Gaillard: 'Beton Belvedere' and Dunepark

Cyprien Gaillard: 'Beton Belvedere' and Dunepark

Esperanza Rosales

Cyprien Gaillard: 'Beton Belvedere' and Dunepark

Esperanza Rosales

'Beton Belvedere', the first retrospective of Cyprien Gaillard's work in the Netherlands, groups together a...

Published 16.04.09

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