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Beschrijving

Tijdschrift met beschouwingen, analyses en essays over de hedendaagse kunstpraktijk, gericht op het werk van levende kunstenaars en kunstenaarscollectieven, die de grenzen van de definities over kunst en de politieke uitwerking van kunst onderzoeken. In dit nummer aandacht voor o.a. Lucy R. Lippard, een gesprek met Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Jill Magid en over het samenwerkingsplatform Center for Historical Reenactments. - Issue 39 explores ideas of political and cultural self-determination, particularly of indigenous and diasporic communities. Through the work of artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Jill Magid as well as the collective Postcommodity, we will ask how artistic practice can articulate spaces for political dissent. In accompanying essays, São Paulo-based philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart ponders what resistance might consist of in these troubled times, while Christina Barton looks at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art's inaugural exhibition in 1992, which surveyed the art of New Zealand, asking what 1990s debates on the relationship between indigenous and colonial cultures might contribute to contemporary discussions