March 2007 in Artforum
Artforum
March 2007 in Artforum
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This month: “Regime Change: Jacques Rancière and Contemporary Art.”
So many of the questions posed by the French thinker Jacques Rancière are of singular importance to contemporary art now: What is, after all, the relationship between art and politics? Where does art’s greatest potential rest, taking into account its engagements and affiliations with market forces? How should one think about various artists’ stagings of social interaction, or even of the self?
In this issue, Artforum takes an extended look at Rancière in light of these matters: Artists and critics Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey sit down with the philosopher in Paris to compare notes on contemporary art; adding brief testaments to his significance for their own work are Paul Chan, Liam Gillick, and Thomas Hirschhorn, while Roe Ethridge presents a pair of portraits. Also appearing, for the first time in an American magazine, is Rancière’s “The Emancipated Spectator,” his famous 2004 lecture on performance, originally given at the opening of the Fifth Summer Academy of Arts in Frankfurt. Finally, providing an overview of his ideas is comparative literature professor Kristin Ross, while critic Bettina Funcke concludes the publication’s special focus by examining the pronounced, mutual interest between contemporary artists and Rancière today.
“Jacques Rancière never left the gambling table of politics, where everything is played out. On the contrary, he is redistributing the cards.” —Thomas Hirschhorn
Also: Cover artist Allen Ruppersberg curates “First Thought Best Thought—Allen Ginsberg,” a meditation on poetics populated with artworks by Marcel Broodthaers, Jef Geys, Guy de Cointet, and many others.
“‘If I were to think like an art critic, I would approach the work through the language of art, and if I were to try and express a similar idea speaking about language as art—or literary criticism—I would be talking about the laws of poetry.’ Oh, no, I sighed to myself. The laws of poetry? What is wrong with you?”—Allen Ruppersberg
Also: Rachel Kushner looks at the perverse fairy tales and twisted social commentary of Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg’s short Claymation videos; Branden W. Joseph talks with Tony Conrad about the “rescreening” of his “Yellow Movies” from the early ’70s; David Joselit reflects on Manet’s Maximilian paintings and the execution of Saddam Hussein; Damon Krukowski reads the contradictory writings of late composer Cornelius Cardew; T. J. Demos surveys Okwui Enwezor’s 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville; Jordan Kantor reflects on contemporary curators leaving the museum for academia; and art historian Linda Nochlin, Artforum editor at large Jack Bankowsky, and writer Brooks Adams remember the late Artforum contributing editor Robert Rosenblum.
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