In this essay Anthony Huberman takes stock of information: the enemy, from Pop to Conceptualism.
Roger M. Buergel, artistic director of documenta 12, has done what no one else has yet realised on such a scale: he has returned to the bombed Kassel, left in ruins (the polis) and devastation (the human species) following World War II, and investigated the foundations of an art exhibition that was unexpectedly successful in its first edition in 1955...
Roger M. Buergel looks back at Lidwien van de Ven's document, her installation of photographs at documenta 12, to consider their investment in both memory and perception.
