& a poster by Ed Atkins
Dear readers,
Spring has arrived! And with it, our latest issue full of fresh material and new thought: headlined by Speculative Realist Quentin Meillassoux, we launch our 21st-Century Theory series guest-edited by Armen Avanessian, with a proposal for a new philosophical materialism.
Then, Jennifer Krasinski portrays British video artist Ed Atkins with his slick HD surfaces that preserve as they decay, Oliver Basciano considers the complexities of the role of the artist in the practice of Cosima von Bonin while Hans-Jürgen Hafner assesses the discursive agenda of Viennese artist Heinrich Dunst.
Swedish performer Mårten Spångberg expounds on space, rhythm, expectation and embodiment with Filipa Ramos, while Rita Vitorelli and new Kunsthalle Wien director Nicolaus Schafhausen discuss curatorial approaches and the obligation to discourse.
Vinyl release Chimerization by digital composer and artist Florian Hecker gets an appraisal by Christian Egger and Darren Bader presents his Artist’s Favourites. Objectif Exhibitions’ director Chris Fitzpatrick muses on Frank Chu’s Serial Protest Signs, Nick Currie visits Tokyo gallery Take Ninagawa and Jan-Philipp Possmann goes to the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, where new director Clémentine Deliss has initiated a programme of collaborations with artists.
Exhibition reviews include Blues for Smoke at MoCA, LA by Chris Kraus, Daan van Golden at Mai 36, Zurich by Tenzing Barshee, Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum in New York by Jenny Borland, Rudolf Polanszky at Gallery Konzett, Vienna by Max Henry, and Lutz Bacher at Portikus, Frankfurt by Thomas Trummer, among others.
A poster by Ed Atkins is included with every copy of the magazine, also available to order as a signed, digital print edition of 25.
Order your copy of the magazine, subscribe, or get a signed, limited edition poster here.
And if you happen to be at Art Cologne in April 19–22, come by and visit us at our booth in Hall 11.3.
