From The Editors
Katarzyna Pieprzak
Several of the texts and projects in this new issue of ARTMargins underscore the role of photography and performance in rendering visible our “ways...
Memory Zero
Sean Smuda
The repression of memory as a result of trauma from war and social divisions is often an experience that obscures or intensifies personal histories. This...
Barbad Golshiri’s Acts of Alterity
Sandra Skurvida
In his transdisciplinary practice, artist, writer, and translator Barbad Golshiri interprets from his viewpoint located in Iran the iconic pieces of the European art history,...
Art of the Counter-Archive: Rosângela Rennó’s Books and the Secret Files of the Dictatorship
Marina Bedran
This article examines Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó's books 2005–510117385–5 and A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] – A27 [S | COD.23], which engage with photographs stolen from...
Yugoslavia with Strings Attached: Boris Kralj’s My Belgrade (2011) and Dubravka Ugrešić and Davor Konjikušić’s There’s Nothing Here (2020)
Vladislav Beronja
This article examines the contemporary photographic representations of Yugoslav modernist architecture and its ruins that serve as a counterpoint to the 2019 MoMA exhibition, <span...
Chronological Dyslexia: Remembering/Representing/Performing Aids
Amelia Jones
Exploring two major books on the visual and performance histories of the ongoing and historical AIDS crisis in the US and beyond—Brian Getnick's edited volume...
The Abstract and the Concrete in Modern Art
Tomás Maldonado
This introductory study analyzes two key texts from the short-lived Argentine collective, the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (Association of Concrete Art-Invention, or AACI). Published in 1946...
Grounding the Global: Pathways to Elucidating Tensions in Chinese Contemporary Art
Kathy Yim King Mak
This article reviews two recent books on Chinese contemporary art, Sasha Welland's Experimental Beijing (2018) and Jenny Lin's Above Sea (2019), concerned with...
Roundtable on John Clark’s The Asian Modern
The Editors
The book, The Asian Modern, by John Clark (with an Introduction by the Manila-based critic and curator, Patrick Flores) seeks to construct a “cross-Asian”...
Introduction to Tomás Maldonado’s “The Abstract and the Concrete in Modern Art” and Alfredo Hlito’s “Notes toward a Materialist Aesthetics”
This introductory study analyzes two key texts from the short-lived Argentine collective, the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (Association of Concrete Art-Invention, or AACI). Published in 1946...
Notes Toward a Materialist Aesthetics
Alfredo Hlito
This introductory study analyzes two key texts from the short-lived Argentine collective, the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (Association of Concrete Art-Invention, or AACI). Published in 1946...
