Volume 2, Issue 1

Stuckism (A Conversation)
Octavian Eşanu
In this text, which takes the form of a conversation and is preceded by a short introduction, the ARTMargins collective seeks to draw the readers'...
Anthropophagy in São Paulo’s Cold War
Caroline A. Jones
The first biennial founded outside Venice opened in São Paulo Brazil in 1951, providing a fulcrum between “dependency” and “developmentalism” (to use economic terms). In...
Post-Art Situation: Logical Syntax
Hratch Armenakyan
The two texts presented here were written by members of conceptual artists' group ACT operating in Armenia in 1994–1996. The group developed affirmative artistic actions...
Art and/or Revolution: The Matter of Painting in Postwar Japan
Pedro Erber
Japanese art critics of the 1950s perceived the locus of a new materialist aesthetics in the new trends of informal abstraction emanating from the United...
Stuck in the Middle: How to Review Dubai Art Month 2012
Nat Muller
This article examines the cultural, economic and political context of the Art Dubai art fair and its symposium the Global Art Forum, as well as...
Introduction to David Kareyan’s “Pure Creativity” and Hratch Armenakyan’s “Post-Art Situation: Logical Syntax”
Angela Harutyunyan
The two texts presented here were written by members of conceptual artists' group ACT operating in Armenia in 1994–1996. The group developed affirmative artistic actions...
Drowning in Documents: Action, Documentation, and Factography in Early Work by the Collective Actions Group
Yelena Kalinsky
This article traces a provisional history of the early years of the conceptual performance art group Collective Actions through an examination of three critical terms—action,...
Pure Creativity, 1994
David Kareyan
The two texts presented here were written by members of conceptual artists' group ACT operating in Armenia in 1994–1996. The group developed affirmative artistic actions...
Retard Six Hours
Honza Zamojski
“Transatlantic”—interdisciplinary project by two emerging Polish artists Radek Szlaga and Honza Zamojski presented in the FOCUS section at Frieze Art Fair New York from 4–7...