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of activities dedicated to contemporary cultural production.
of activities dedicated to contemporary cultural production.
English & Italian | 2011
21 × 27 cm | 394 pages
21 × 27 cm | 394 pages
20.00 eur
Sections: Time Zone, Play Time, and Time Machine.
The cartographies in Time Zone trace out emerging artistic 'systems', geographies of governmental disparities,
and different dynamics of cultural work. What is at stake here is the position
that these local systems are adopting in the globalised system of contemporary
art. This section focuses on the way the role of cultural industries is
affecting various economic scenarios around the world. Time Zone is quite
simply a rewriting of the opening section of art magazines – that of news and appointments. In this issue: Russia, the Czech Republic,
Romania, Croatia and Turkey.
Play Time corresponds instead to the central section of an art magazine, which is
generally dedicated to monographic essays on particular artists. Categories
like 'author' and 'work' are concepts that belong to a particular historical
period—that of the modern age—but they are no longer able to analyse and portray the processes of contemporary
production. Deconstructing the hyper-visibility of certain organisations and
giving visibility to the invisible networks and processes that permeate the
space of art, in a collective chain of Education/Market/Display, thus becomes
the only possible form of action in today's state of 'work'.
The section Time Machine aims to complete the issue by questioning the position of time at the heart of
capitalism, but no longer in its 'modern' form, which based the production
process on the contrast between use value and exchange value, and thus, by
extension, on the dialectic between reality and representation. On the
contrary, time—which is based on potential/actual relationships—is now the basis for the information economy. At a time when appearance has
entirely replaced reality, the subject is always a 'power', insofar as it is
memory, on the point of manifesting itself. The last section of art magazines
is given over to art reviews, and the category it deals with is always the time
dimension of 'after'.
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No Order
Art in a Post-Fordist Society
No Order is published annually and is bilingual (English and Italian). It is edited by Marco Scotini, published by Archive Books (Berlin), and promoted and supported by NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano. Beyond the normal divisions and pre-established formats of periodical art magazines, this editorial project is structured into an assemblage of three sections: Time Zone, Play Time, and Time Machine.
By means of an investigation into current creative industries—and their social, economic and semiotic assemblages—the magazine contributions (essays, articles, interviews and dialogues as well
as artists' projects) aim to deconstruct, analyse and intervene within the
ambit of the procedures and forms of cognitive capitalism. It will concentrate,
in particular, on the phenomena of the 'biennalisation', 'financialisation' and
'spectacularisation' of the political, beginning with the control and
distribution of forms of artistic education, production and display on a global
scale.
The Editorial Board is comprised of a series of transversal figures from various
geographic and cultural environments, and includes Asef Bayat, Harun Farocki,
Peter Friedl, Maurizio Lazzarato, Sylvère Lotringer, Achille Mbembe, Angela Melitopoulos, Christian Marazzi, Nelly
Richard, Florian Schneider, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas and Françoise Vergès.
Amongst the numerous contributors to the first, 400 page issue are: the curators
Roger M. Buergel, Vasif Kortun, Charles Esche, Viktor Misiano; the sociologist
Maurizio Lazzarato and the economist Christian Marazzi; the filmmakers
Deimantas Narkevičius, Harun Farocki, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi; the Russian philosopher Alexei Penzin; the Chilean
theorist Nelly Richard and the German art historian Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt.
There are artists projects by Stephen Willats, Erick Beltrán, Warren Niedich, Société Réaliste, Falke Pisano, the Argentinian collective Etcetéra, Rossella Biscotti, Luca Frei, Oliver Ressler and Vangelis Vlahos, who
contribute with essays, graphic designs or maps and cartographies.
The cover picture is taken from the demonstrations at the Milan Triennale in
1968. The underlying theme of the XIV International Exhibition of Modern
Decorative and Industrial Arts and Modern Architecture was 'Large Numbers'. The
XIV Triennale never opened. It was occupied by students during the
demonstrations and all the exhibition areas were destroyed. 'Why not try to
start again, precisely here in Milan? In that same space in which the great
process of social transformation was interrupted?'
