Issue #69 Geopolitics and Contemporary Art, Part I: From Representation’s Ruin to Salvaging the Real

Geopolitics and Contemporary Art, Part I: From Representation’s Ruin to Salvaging the Real

Irmgard Emmelhainz

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Issue #69
January 2016










Notes
1

Jodi Dean, “Politics without Politics,” Parallax 15.3 (2009): 20–36.

2

See Comité Invisible, A nos amis (Paris: La fabrique, 2014), 72–83.

3

These were some of the questions posed at the Sharjah March Meeting in May 2015.

4

See Angela Y. Davis, Mujeres, raza y clase (Madrid: AKAL, 2004), 157–159.

5

Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, “Intellectuals and Power: A Conversation Between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze,” Language, Counter-memory, Practice, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977).

6

See Maurizio Lazzarato, “From Knowledge to Belief, from Critique to the Production of Subjectivity,” Transversal, April 2008

7

See Irmgard Emmelhainz, “From From Third Worldism to Empire: Jean‐Luc Godard and the Palestine Question,” Third Text 23.100 (Fall 2009): 649–656.

8

See Stuart Hall, “Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities,” Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representations of Identity, ed. Anthony D. King (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 43.

9

Homi Bhabha, “Frontlines/Borderposts,” in Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question, ed. Angelika Bammer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 269.

10

Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (London: Verso, 2003), 64.

11

See Boris Groys, “The Post-Communist Condition”

12

Brian Holmes, “Continental Drift: Activist Research, From Geopolitics to Geopoetics,” framework X ephemera 5.X (2005): 741.

13

See Gregory Sholette, “Art Out of Joint: Artists’ Activism Before and After the Cultural Turn,” The GULF: High Culture/Hard Labor, ed. Andrew Ross (New York: OR Books, 2015), 80.

14

Holmes, “Continental Drift,” 741.

15

See Peter Osborne, “The Postconceptual Condition or, the Cultural Logic of High Capitalism Today,” Radical Philosophy 184 (March-April 2014): 19. This singular modernity is akin to what Nicolas Bourriaud termed the “Altermodern” in his Altermodern (London: Tate Publishing, 2009).

16

See Claire Bishop, “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,” October 110 (Fall 2004): 51–79.

17

As in Santiago Sierra’s confrontations or in Thomas Hirschhorn’s Bataille Monument (2002), which was part of Documenta 11. Ibid.

18

See Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004).

19

Eyal Weizman, “The Paradox of Participation,” introduction to Markus Miessen, The Nightmare of Participation (Frankfurt: Sternberg Press, 2011), 9.

20

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (New York: Zone Books, 2015),

21

Ibid., 129.

22

Mitchell delivered these remarks in a lecture at the 2015 Sharjah March Meeting. The voice-over in Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema (1998) says the following: “Même s’il est bondé d’égratignures au point de ne plus être utilisable, un petit rectangle de 35 millimètres est capable de sauver l’honneur de la réalité toute entière” [Even fatally scratched, a small rectangle of 35 millimeters is capable of saving the honor of the whole of reality

23

See Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), “On Direct Action: An Address to Cultural Workers,”in The GULF, 134.

24

“Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) Manifesto,” June 25, 2015

25

See “Artists at Istanbul Biennial plan ‘Productive disruption’ to demand resumption of peace talks,” e-flux conversations, September 1, 2015

26

See Hrag Vartanian, “Artists Launch Letter for Palestine Campaign at Venice Biennale,” Hyperallergic, August 13, 2015

27

See Guy Mannes-Abbott, “The Emergent Wave of Artworld Activism,” The GULF, 98.

28

Sholette, “Art Out of Joint,” 83.

29

Comité Invisible, A nos amis, 84–86.

The author would like to thank @Stephanie Bailey @Saúl Hernández @Urok Shirhan @Fawwaz Trablousi @Rolando Vazquez and eveyone at #sharjahmarchmeeting2015.