Lucerne—Switzerland’s poster town—has a vibrant graphic design scene, which in recent years has become known for its sophisticated posters well beyond the country’s borders. Professional colleagues are in awe of how a relatively small city can produce …

To mark the occasion of Alexander Kluge’s eighty-fifth birthday, the Museum Folkwang is organizing a comprehensive show of the work of the film-maker, writer, philosopher, and artist. The exhibition is an introduction to Kluge’s artistic “pluriverse” a …

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Das Thema des Ausstellungskatalogs ist Kleidung und Mode als essentieller Bestandteil von Kunst, der besonders seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre für bedeutende Künstler und Künstlerinnen wie Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Niki de Saint Phalle oder Daniel Bu …

Der deutsche Fotograf Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968, Remscheid) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und London. Sein Oeuvre ist zum einen durch aufmerksame Beobachtung seiner Umwelt, zum anderen durch die Erforschung der Grundlagen der Fotografie geprägt. 2000 wurd …

Abrams 2012. Beiträge von David Campany. Englisch. 184 Seiten, 196 Abb. 21,5 x 29,7 cm. 1,3 kg. Fester Einband mit Schutzumschlag. 9781419707490. art-15590

The Sundaayyyssss drawings started as an Instagram column against my aversion for the seventh day of the week. These drawings are about Sundaayyy feelings and the immense significance of this day in modern society. The calendar has 52 pages and can be …

Ecology has as its Greek root oikos, meaning the entire habitat, house, or family—an interdependent ecosystem. (Economy has the same root.) We know it now as the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment, the interdependence of humans and their institutions. As Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan notes: “Here is a lesson: what happens to people and what happens to the land is the same thing.” And this is what the work that follows weighs. The third volume of the documenta 14 South as a State of Mind concerns the constant correlation among nature, capital, power, and language. The contributions that follow are documents of language, or hunger, or both. Why “language or hunger”? Consider the mouth a border, a boundary, a threshold: to swallow or to speak. Emptiness or language (or their meeting). On one side, inside, one feels physical hunger, a void; on the other side, outside, one puts forth language (into another void, perhaps). Hence language—being born with one, or finding it again, or creating one anew, a kind of lexicon—can be a means of nourishment, while hunger can be a form of resistance. Indeed, the new essays, poems, scripts, artists projects, and older manifestos and parables that together constitute this issue of South articulate the necessity of language, while considering consumption and hunger as political and aesthetic facts and fields that determined our past and will construct our collective future. “In contemporary times,” Nabil Ahmed writes, “emergent ecological crisis is a paradigmatic negative moment with regard to the unresolved dark twinning of capitalism and colonialism.” And it is this dark twinning that is our focus. If, as Ahmed declares, attentiveness to environmental violence is necessary for the “formation of an anticapitalist political ecology at once structural, social, psychic, and environmental,” we believe that an awareness of the role that language plays in this formation, as complicity or resistance, psychic or structural, is equally important. Language or hunger—a kind of border. A question (for you), also.

Reportagen, das unabhängige Magazin für erzählte Gegenwart. Herausragende Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in spannenden Reportagen aus dieser Welt. Vor Ort recherchiert, persönlich bei den Protagonisten und abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade. Jeden zweit …