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Cabinet magazine issue 25, with a special section on “Insects,” available now

Entirely teeming with interesting items, including:

- Christopher Turner on the gall of a famous sexologist
- Mark Dery on the (rather cute) scourge of Southern California
- Sina Najafi in conversation with Hugh Raffles on the language of bees
- Cornelia Hesse-Honegger’s artist project on Chernobyl’s tiniest legacies
- Margaret Wertheim on spiders turned couch potatoes
- David Serlin in conversation with Jeffrey Lockwood on grasshoppers gone wild
- Emilie Clarke’s special insert of book lice

And completely crawling with other fascinating subject matter, including:

- Joshua Foer on the minutiae of miniature writing
- Daniel Heller-Roazen on negation delirium
- Kris Belden-Adams on indexicality and horse races
- Charles Goldman’s artist project inviting modifications to his ultimate standard
- Leland de la Durantaye amid the llamas outside Heidegger’s hut
- David Levine’s artist project on actors not quitting their day-job
- Jeffrey Kastner on the primordial soup of Roy Lichtenstein

For a full table of contents, see http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/

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Cabinet magazine is published by Immaterial Incorporated, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Cabinet receives generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Flora Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Danielson Foundation, and Two Trees Management.

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Athens Biennial

Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance

a 1st Athens Biennial 2007 publication
with contributions by:
Catherine David, Evelyne Jouanno,
Per Hasselberg, Viktor Misiano,
Neil Mulholland, Panayis Panagiotopoulos,
Renata Salecl, Kostis Stafylakis,
Yannis Stavrakakis, Maria Theodorou,
and Jeremy Valentine

http://www.athensbiennial.org

Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance is an attempt to examine the concept of the 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Destroy Athens, in connection with the intentions and aspirations of the recently founded contemporary art biennial. The texts focus on issues such as the current conditions of contextualization for contemporary art, the terms that determine the articulation of political discourse within large-scale periodic exhibitions, as well as the characteristics of the city of Athens as a historically loaded vehicle for political and cultural stereotypes.

This new publication contains the lectures and discussions of the 1st Athens Biennial 2007 Conference, Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance, which took place in the Old Parliament of Athens, in February 2007. It includes contributions by Catherine David, Evelyne Jouanno, Per Hasselberg, Viktor Misiano, Neil Mulholland, Panayis Panagiotopoulos, Renata Salecl, Kostis Stafylakis, Yannis Stavrakakis, Maria Theodorou and Jeremy Valentine. It also includes an introduction by Destroy Athens co-curators Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and Augustine Zenakos, as well as transcripts of public discussions, moderated by Katerina Koskina and Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis.

Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance is the second companion publication to the 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Destroy Athens. The first, Suggestions for the Destruction of Athens, was published as an initial declaration of curatorial intentions and a brief guide to the exhibition concept, in October 2006. The third companion publication will be the exhibition catalogue and will coincide with the opening of the 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Destroy Athens, in September 2007.

Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance is published by the Athens Biennial and Futura Publications, and will be available from May 15th 2007.

To order, please contact Futura Publications: 15 Victoros Ougo Street, GR - 104 37, Athens, Greece | T: +30 210 5226173 | F: +30 210 5226361 | E: futura@ath.forthnet.gr.

1st Athens Biennial 2007
Destroy Athens
10th September – 18th November 2007
Curated by: Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio, Augustine Zenakos

Main Sponsor: Deutsche Bank
Under the Aegis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Athens

http://www.athensbiennial.org

For more information go to: http://www.athensbiennial.org