The Real and/as Representation: TV, Video, and Contemporary Art in Armenia
Angela Harutyunyan
The article situates video art produced in Armenia in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the framework of larger social transformations from modern to...
Disintegrating Progress: Bolshevism, National Modernism, and the Emergence of Contemporary Art Practices in Armenia
Vardan Azatyan
This article provides a genealogy of the emergence of contemporary art practices in Armenia, arguing that the very history of emersion of these practices can...
What was Contemporary Art?
Octavian Esanu
This article contributes to a recent debate around the question “What Is Contemporary Art?” It brings into discussion certain key aspects of the activities of...
De-Idealizing Democracy: On Thomas Hirschhorn’s Postsocialist Projects
Anthony Gardner
“I want to give form to the end of the Idealization of Democracy,” claims one of Europe's leading artists, Thomas Hirschhorn. The statement may seem...
Introduction to Felipe Ehrenberg’s “In Search of a Model for Life”
Karen Benezra
“In Search of a Model for Life” traces a brief history of the autonomous, experimental art movement known as los Grupos (the Groups) in which...
Screen Play: Chronoscope, 1951, 11pm
Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Media Farzin
“Screen Play” is a collaged conversation that entangles complementary views on international politics during the Cold War, particularly in relation to Iran. The text is...
