JILL MAGID The Proposal

Book published by Sternberg Press (2016)

The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid’s “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Luis Barragán ... [more ▼]

The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid’s “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Luis Barragán (1902–1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy. The archive of Barragán was split in two after his death—the personal archive is kept in his home in Mexico, which is now a museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site; while his professional archive was purchased in 1995 by Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, from a New York gallerist. It is said that Fehlbaum bought it as a gift for his then fiancée, Federica Zanco. She is the director of the Barragan Foundation, which also holds rights to Barragán’s name. For the past twenty years the archive, housed below the Vitra headquarters, has been inaccessible to the public. With The Proposal Magid attempts to bring together Barragán’s professional and personal archives by probing the architect’s official and private selves, and the interests of various individuals and governmental and corporate entities who have become the archives’ guardians. Magid, with permission of the Barragán family, commissioned a small amount of Barragán’s cremated remains to be transformed into a diamond. The stone, set in a gold ring, was offered to Zanco in exchange for the return of the professional archive to Mexico. Magid’s artwork directly engages the intersections of the psychological and the judicial, national identity and repatriation, international property rights and copyright law, authorship and ownership, the human body and the body of work. [less ▲]

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?

Book published by Sternberg Press (2016)

New Institutionalism, a mode of curating that originated in Europe in the 1990s, evolved from the legacy of international curator Harald Szeemann, the relational art advanced by French critic and theorist ... [more ▼]

New Institutionalism, a mode of curating that originated in Europe in the 1990s, evolved from the legacy of international curator Harald Szeemann, the relational art advanced by French critic and theorist Nicolas Bourriaud, and other influential factors of the time. New Institutionalism’s dispersed and varied approaches to curating sought to reconfigure the art institution from within, reshaping it into an active, democratic, open, and egalitarian public sphere. These approaches posed other possibilities and futures for institutions and exhibitions, challenging the consensual conception, production, and distribution of art. Practitioners engaged the art institution with renewed confidence by imbuing it with the potential for new aesthetic experiences and different relationships among artists, institutions, and spectators beyond engrained modernist ideologies. Working in these new modes, the art institution could become a site of fluidity, unpredictability, and risk. What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism? reflects upon the aspirations of these curatorial strategies and assesses their critical efficacy today within the landscape of contemporary art and globalized culture. The first in a series of readers examining changing characteristics of art institutions, this publication thinks through New Institutionalism by bringing together facsimiles of seminal texts, new critical essays, a history of trends and practices, and commissioned artist projects and contributions. These are complemented by documentation from the inaugural year of programming at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University focused on reimagining CCVA as a twenty-first-century institution. [less ▲]

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed

Book published by 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016)

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed 20th Biennale of Sydney If each era posits its own view of reality, what is ours? The common distinction between the virtual and the physical ... [more ▼]

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed 20th Biennale of Sydney If each era posits its own view of reality, what is ours? The common distinction between the virtual and the physical has become ever more elusive, and our perception of what is real ever more fluid. This book is published to accompany the 20th Biennale of Sydney, directed by Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal, which takes these keys themes as its starting point. Staged at several different venues, the exhibition is organised into several different ‘embassies of thought’, each of which are reflected in this beautifully-produced volume. Traditionally, an embassy functions as a state within a state: a system that enables the occupation and creation of new spaces in established lands. This book focusses on these and other such ‘in-between spaces’, investigating our interaction with the digital world, the blurred boundaries between art forms and the interconnection between politics and financial power structures. The future is already here… features new essays by Andre Lepecki and Franco Berardi among others, new text and visual commissions by a range of artists including Ming Wong, Dayanita Singh, Keg de Souza, Cécile B Evans, and Richard Bell, and a series of fascinating roundtable discussions with participating artists. [less ▲]

Ageing Process

Book published by Sternberg Press (2016)

Ageing Process, Lara Favaretto’s first monograph, documents the artist’s works from the 1990s to her most recent installations presented in the 2015 exhibition “Good Luck!” at MAXXI in Rome. Structured ... [more ▼]

Ageing Process, Lara Favaretto’s first monograph, documents the artist’s works from the 1990s to her most recent installations presented in the 2015 exhibition “Good Luck!” at MAXXI in Rome. Structured like a manual, this volume accompanies entries on her works with essays by critics and experts from various disciplines who tackle themes complementary but not directly connected to the artist’s practice. Favaretto, who also edited the book, explains: “I decided not to follow any chronological or alphabetical order, but to instead suggest a unified discourse by making the reading experience flow as smoothly as possible, following an underground web of references between the texts that would elude any scansion dictated by the sequence of dates or letters.” [less ▲]

Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss!

Book published by Dietz Verlag (2016)

Es ist Zeit, Europa neu zu denken. Weg mit der Brüsseler Trilogie aus Rat, Kommission und Parlament! Die Nationalstaaten pervertieren die europäische Idee und spielen Europas Bürger gegeneinander aus ... [more ▼]

Es ist Zeit, Europa neu zu denken. Weg mit der Brüsseler Trilogie aus Rat, Kommission und Parlament! Die Nationalstaaten pervertieren die europäische Idee und spielen Europas Bürger gegeneinander aus. Europa muss aber heißen: Alle europäischen Bürger haben gleiche politische Rechte. Vernetzt die europäischen Regionen! Schafft ein gemeinsames republikanisches Dach! Wählt einen europäischen Parlamentarismus, der dem Grundsatz der Gewaltenteilung genügt! Dieser Text ist ein utopisches Experiment. 'Res publica' bedeutet Gemeinwohl - daran fehlt es in der EU heute am meisten. Die Idee der Republik ist von Aristoteles bis Kant das normale Verfassungsprinzip für politische Gemeinwesen. Wenden wir es doch einmal auf Europa an. Bauen wir Europa neu, damit sich die Geschichte der Nationalismen nicht wiederholt. Damit Europa in der Welt von morgen nicht untergeht, sondern zur Avantgarde auf dem Weg in eine Weltbürgerunion wird. [less ▲]

Quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS: Effects of illness perception and coping strategies

in Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa (2016), 32

This study aims to investigate the quality of life (QOL) predictors of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), from the perspective of Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Model, in which the influence of the illness ... [more ▼]

This study aims to investigate the quality of life (QOL) predictors of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), from the perspective of Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Model, in which the influence of the illness perception on QOL is mediated by coping strategies. Ninety-five PLWHA answered to the instruments Brief IPQ, Brief Cope and WHOQOL-HIV BREF concerning, respectively, illness perception, coping strategies and QOL. The results indicate that illness perception has direct and indirect effects in QOL, mediated by coping strategies. The more HIV is perceived as threatening, the worse is the perception of QOL of PLWHA; however, the increased use of acceptance, distraction and instrumental support coping strategies and the less use of behavioral disengagement and positive reinterpretation could mitigate this negative effect. [less ▲]

Narrativität in der Musik – Eine Skizze

in Döhl, Frédéric; Feige, Daniel Martin (Eds.) Musik und Narration. Philosophische und musikästhetische Perspektiven (2015)

Russesch Wantermärercher

Book published by Le Phare (2015)

Three fairy tales introduce Luxembourgish children to the Russian characters of winter fairy tales: Snowflake Girl, The Father Frost and the Cold named ZIMA, who came to Luxembourg.

Les « guerres de religion », hier… et aujourd’hui ?

Speeches/Talks (2015)

Automobility and the Building of Tourism in Communist Romania, c. 1960-1989

in Divall, Colin (Ed.) Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces, and Mobilities (2015)