December 2019 / issue no. 116
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“EVIL,” the theme of this latest issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST, is often understood as simply the opposite of “good,” and as pure immorality, evil is everywhere today, and somehow also nowhere. It is the “other” par excellence; something we ourselves never are, but by which one always measures one’s own distance. “Evil is over there, not here, not with me.” Given its ubiquity today, we offer texts that investigate what this thing we call “evil” is, as it so often functions as the polar opposite of that which people hold to be just and right. Indeed, who could argue that point, and yet. In this issue, we look specifically at evil’s manifestations in the art world, and in film, politics, and theory, sometimes with an eye toward evil as something potentially playful and ironic, too.
Main section (in English and German):
Oliver Precht on Moral Judgment and Evil
Amanda Schmitt in Conversation with Loretta Fahrenholz, Madeline Hollander, and Monica Mirabile on Recent Horror Films and Choregoraphy of the Female Body
Max Czollek on Evil in Germany Today
Colin Lang interviews Stephen O’Malley
Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier on Evil in the Art World
New Development
Isabelle Graw on Jack Whitten
Rotation
Adam Butler inteviews Ben Lerner
Alice Blackhurst on Chantal Akerman’s writings
Reviews (partial listing):
Colin Lang on Edmund de Waal at Max Hetzler, Berlin
Elisa Linn on Ariane Müller at Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
Dave Beech on Albert Oehlen in London
Jessica Aimufua on Diamond Stingily at Kunstverein Munich
Nadja Abt on the Istanbul Biennale
Jesi Khadivi on Sharon Hayes at Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Hans-Christian Dany on Puppies Puppies in Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
Rachel Haidu on Leidy Churchman
Stephanie Holl-Trieu on Christina Ramberg
Pujan Karambeigi on Sarah Rapson at Essex Street, NYC
Markues Aviv on “Soil is an Inscribed Body” at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
Adrienne Ange Rooney on Lubaina Himid at the New Museum, NY
Francesca Raimondi on Maskulinitäten at Bonn/Cologne/Düsseldorf Kunstvereine
Chris Reitz on LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Renaissance Society Chicago
Fiona Geuss on Andrea Bowers at Weserburg Bremen
Enzo Shalom on Nic Guagnini at Bortolami, NY
Alida Müschen on Julia Philips at Kunstverein Braunschweig
Nina Prader on Omer Fast at the Salzburger Kunstverein
Sophie Goltz on Art in Society in Asia from 1960s to 1990s, Singapore
Dorothea Zwirner on Senga Nengudi at Lenbachhaus, Munich
Obituaries:
Douglas Crimp (in the words/images of Louise Lawler, Juliane Rebentisch, and Marc Siegel)
Sarah Schumann (in the words of Vojin Saša Vukadinović)
Plus artists’ editions by:
Jessica Stockholder
Raphaela Vogel
Jorinde Voigt
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