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Nicolas Bourriaud | theory | 01.04.2002

Space-time exchange factorsArtworks and exchangesBecause art is made of the same material as the social exchanges, it has a special place in the collective production process. A work of art has a quality that sets it apart from other things produced by human activities. This quality is its (relative) social transparency, if a work of art is successful, it will invariably set its sights beyond its…

Nicolas Bourriaud | theory | 01.04.2002

RELATIONAL AESTHETICS (PART 1)

Relational AestheticsRelational formArtistic activity is a game, whose forms, patterns and functions develop and evolve according to periods and social contexts; it is not an immutable essence. It is the critic’s task to study this activity in the present. A certain aspect of the programme of modernity has been fairly and squarely wound up (and not, let us hasten to emphasise in these bourgeois…

	Susan Buck-Morss \| theory \| 01.03.2002
	KING KONG AND THE PALACE OF THE SOVIETS
	"The movie King Kong opened in New York theaters on 2 March 1933. Two months later on May 5, Moscow announced the winner of the architectural design competition for the Palace of the Soviets. If one compares the drawing of the final variant of the Palace, which incorporated Stalin’s significant modifications, with a widely distributed publicity poster for King Kong (not a still, incidentally,…

	Stewart Home \| theory \| 01.02.2002
	69 THINGS TO DO WITH STEWART HOME
	"69 Things to do with a veteran of art resistance and class war; housewife; plagiarist; prolific writer of fiction, criticism, and politically inspired pornography; propagandist; polemicist; prankster; art striker; founder of Neoism; scourge of anarchism; arsedestroyer; martyr to the revolution; and notorious self-denying self-publicist. CHOOSE ALIENATION Karen Eliot (from Neoism, Plagiarism &…

	Richard Barbrook \| theory \| 01.03.2001
	THE REGULATION OF LIBERTY
	"“What makes the constitution of a state really strong and durable is such a close observance of [social] conventions that natural relations and laws come to be in harmony on all points, so that the law... seems only to ensure, accompany and correct what is natural.”1Jean-Jacques RousseauThe State in CyberspaceThe rapid expansion of e-commerce depends upon effective legal regulation of the Net.…

	Keiko Sei \| theory \| 01.01.2001
	FOREVER LEADING CULTURE
	"The American novelist Walter Abish has described the work of the younger writer Jürg Laederach (who wrote the novel Wie Deutsch Ist Das on the German psyche) as capturing “the spirit of the new Europe”: “A Europe to come, when borders dissolve [...] Characters vanish, reappear. The short segments are sharply defined. There is something relentless about the build up... Everything is transitory.…

Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) | theory | 01.05.1999

STRANGE/UNWOVEN

Suzi Gablik a Leo Castelli | theory | 01.02.1999

PARTING WITH MODERNISM (PART II.)

Milena Slavická | theory | 01.08.1998

MY HOSTAGES

Suzi Gablik a Hilton Kramer | theory | 01.08.1998

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR ART IN A LIFEBOAT

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Letošní 50. ročník Art Basel přilákal celkem 93 000 návštěvníků a sběratelů z 80 zemí světa. 290 prémiových galerií představilo umělecká díla od počátku 20. století až po současnost. Hlavní sektor přehlídky, tradičně v prvním patře výstavního prostoru, představil 232 předních galerií z celého světa nabízející umění nejvyšší kvality. Veletrh ukázal vzestupný trend prodeje prostřednictvím galerií jak soukromým sbírkám, tak i institucím. Kromě hlavního veletrhu stály za návštěvu i ty přidružené: Volta, Liste a Photo Basel, k tomu doprovodné programy a výstavy v místních institucích, které kvalitou daleko přesahují hranice města tj. Kunsthalle Basel, Kunstmuseum, Tinguely muzeum nebo Fondation Beyeler.

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