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ESSAY
Sylvère Lotringer on ART AFTER BAUDRILLARD

PORTRAITS

TRIS VONNA-MICHELL
Vonna-Michell entangles his listeners in a labyrinth of fact and fiction. By Adam Carr
WALTER PICHLER
Futuristic Totems. Vitus Weh on the Austrian sculptor.
GEORGE KUCHAR
Bruce Hainley on the American Underground filmmaker. A letter to Trisha Donnelly.
GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON
Adam E. Mendelssohn in conversation with the artist about his new show at Team Gallery NY.

ARTISTS READINGS
Christian Egger meets the painter AMELIE VON WULFFEN. A conversation about Solzhenitsyn, Houellebecq and Kippenberger.

ART GUIDE: RIGA
Forever young in Riga. Ieva Astahovska and Anda Klavina on the Latvian art scene.

CURATOR’S KEY
Manifesta 2008 curator ADAM BUDAK on MARCEL BROODTHAERS

GALLERIES
The VITAMIN CREATIVE SPACE in Guangzhou, China, and the artist HEMAN CHONG

IN BERLIN
The artist and musician MOMUS in search of the hottest art district in Berlin.

FILM The American exploitation filmmaker STEPHANIE ROTHMAN
MUSIC The new album by THE RED KRAYOLA with ART & LANGUAGE: “Sighs Trapped by Liars”
PRINTED MATTER Günther Anders’s “Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen”, re-read by Raimar Stange

REVIEWS
Lyon Biennale (German/Engl.); Piotr Uklanski, Vienna (German/Engl.); Un/fair Trade, Graz (German/Engl.); Jessica Stockholder, Vienna; Jonathan Quinn, Vienna; Stefan Sandner, Vienna; Martin Kippenberger, Graz; “Die Blaue Blume”, Graz; “Die Kunst des Alterns”, Schwaz; Michael Krebber, Cologne; Nick Mauss, Berlin; Haegue Yang, Berlin; Mike Kelley, Berlin; Minerva Cuevas and Michael Hakimi, Basle; Marine Hugonnier, Bern; Athen Biennale

GERMAN:

ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
RÓZA EL-HASSAN: Hana Mal Allah, Sándor Bodó, Andrea Stojanovics, Amal el Kenawy
IN WIEN “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”: Statements by Peter Weibel, Barbara Steiner, Vitus Weh and Karin Handlbauer on Vienna’s art institutions.
SEDUCTIONS by Johannes Wohnseifer, Nadine Gandy, Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Daniel Baumann, Georg Wasner
ME AND MY ASS PONY by Fritz Ostermayer

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TEXTE ZUR KUNST

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
December 2007 / Issue No. 68:

“PSYCHOANALYSIS”
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Psychosocial Subjects — On the Production and Regulation of Affects / Beyond the Doctrine of Drives — Abysses of Psycho-Politics and Figures of Psycho-Aesthetics / The Private and Political — Feminism vs. the Resistance to Analysis / Habitus and Internalization — Pierre Bourdieu and the Spectres of Psychoanalysis / Contesting Coercions — The Use-value of Artistic Psycho-Tactics / Affect and Apparatus — Cinema and the Object of Sentimental Fantasy

Reviews from New York, Berlin, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Basel, Frankfurt am Main, Eindhoven, Bern, Brussels, Barcelona, San Francisco and Venice

Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Heimo Zobernig, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Nairy Baghramian

ENGLISH CONTENT

BECOMING EXISTENT IN THE BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL FIELD
A conversation between psychoanalyst and group psychotherapist Wolfgang Trauth and Helmut Draxler

HELMUT DRAXLER
BEYOND PRIVATION AND ABUNDANCE
Psychoanalysis as Political and Aesthetic Theory

GREGG BORDOWITZ
HILFLOSIGKEIT (HELPLESSNESS)

MIGNON NIXON
WAR INSIDE / WAR OUTSIDE
Feminist Critiques and the Politics of Psychoanalysis

ANDREA FRASER
PSYCHOANALYSIS OR SOCIOANALYSIS
Rereading Pierre Bourdieu

MICHAEL DREYER
WHEN INSTITUTIONAL WITTICISM WAS STILL A HELP
On Artistic Psycho-Tactics

HERMANN KAPPELHOFF
FILM: TEXT, IMAGE, OBJECT
On the Psychoanalytical Theory of the Viewer

REVIEWS

THE SIMPLE LIFE
Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer on Tino Sehgal

RECONSIDERING PRINCE
Isabelle Graw on Richard Prince at the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

MORE GERMAN AUTUMN THAN PRAGUE SPRING
Sven Lütticken on “Forms of Resistance” at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

CASTING DOUBT
Mark Godfrey on Omer Fast at the MUMOK, Vienna

COLLAPSES AND CANVASES
Rachel Haidu on Steven Parrino at Gagosian Gallery, New York

EYE, GAZE, SCREEN
Vivian Bobka on Anthony McCall at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

ARTISTS’ EDITION issue 68:

HEIMO ZOBERNIG

ohne Titel, 2007

SPECIAL ARTISTS’ EDITION issue 68:

PETER FISCHLI/DAVID WEISS

“Ohne Titel (Airport Zürich, 2000)”, 2007

YOUNG ARTISTS’ EDITION issue 68:

NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN

“Zum Lumpen-Eck”, 2007

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MuHKA

SANTHAL FAMILY: POSITIONS AROUND AN INDIAN SCULPTURE
01.02 - 05.05.08
MuHKA
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Leuvenstraat 32 2000 Antwerp Belgium
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WITH WORK BY: RAMKINKAR BAIJ, SANTANU BOSE, MATTI BRAUN, CALCUTTA ART RESEARCH, ANITA DUBE, RITWIK GHATAK, SHEELA GOWDA, BORAN HANDSA, NS HARSHA, REBA HORE, INDIAN PEOPLES THEATRE ASSOCIATION, REGHUNADHAN K, VALSAN KOORMA KOLLERI, KP KRISHNAKUMAR, GOSHKA MACUGA, MELVIN MOTI, MEERA MUKHERJEE, OTOLITH GROUP, SUDHIR PATWARDHAN, JUAN PEREZ AGIRREGOIKOA, ASHIM PURKAYASTHA, KERALA RADICALS, CK RAJAN, RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, RAVI SHAH and KLAUS WEBER

EXHIBITION CURATED BY: GRANT WATSON IN COLLABORATION WITH ANSHUMAN DASGUPTA AND SUMAN GOPINATH

This exhibition takes as its starting point Santhal Family a work made by Indian artist Ramkinkar Baij in 1938. Considered to be the first major modernist public sculpture in India, Santhal Family combines an interest in the forms of modernism and temple/traditional sculpture with a concern for ground level reality. Depicting a family group from the Santhal tribe carrying their possessions with them to a new place of work, it is a portrait of labour that presents the complexity of its subject without heroism or pathos.

Positioned around a single sculpture, which anchors the exhibition and provides a focus for reflection, this project adopts an expansive model that avoids the forced generalisations often associated with so-called ‘regional’ exhibitions. Working with contemporary artists as well as with archival material, it sets out to explore the art historical significance of Santhal Family as well as the sculpture’s relationship to contemporary debates concerning art and social change. In particular, it looks at how aesthetic gestures can speak beyond their immediate circumstances and how diverse political and formal elements can coalesce within a single work.

Little known outside of his native country, Ramkinkar Baij was a revolutionary in his own time, celebrated for his experimental use of materials and for the way that he drew freely on several artistic traditions at once. He took inspiration from India and from the West, from the avant-garde, from labour, from historical events, from nature, and from the everyday. Starting with Santhal Family, Ramkinkar’s most famous work, the exhibition will radiate outwards: first, from the state of Bengal, where the sculpture stands, with its historic links between left wing politics and the visual arts, literature, theatre and film (at that time united through the cultural front of the communist party); then, through contemporary Indian artists familiar with Santhal Family as an iconic work. And finally, through the practice of diasporic and non-Indian artists who will consider the sculpture’s importance from afar–as a work that links the art histories of different continents and prov
ides an entry point into the complexity of India’s cultural and political scene.

The project establishes a range of positions around Santhal Family through painting, sculpture, installation, literature, historical documents, performance and film, and includes major new commissions. Bringing these diverse elements together, Polish artist Goshka Macuga will design a series of sculptural exhibition structures to help audiences navigate the diverse material on display and produce an imaginative mise-en-scène for the work.

The book Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture co edited by Grant Watson, Monika Szewczyk and Anshuman Dasgupta, will be published to coincide with the exhibition at MuHKA. It contains commissioned texts from amongst others Will Bradley, Sivakumar and Stephen Morton, the writing of Mahasweta Devi and visual essays by artists including Sunil Gupta, Matti Braun, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa and Raqs Media Collective.