Volume 4, Issue 2

Introduction to: “A Conversation with Hsieh Tehching, from The Black Cover Book”
Lee Ambrozy
This introduction situates the conversation between Hsieh Teh-Ching, Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing within a larger historic and socio-cultural framework, as well as elaborates a...
When Next We Meet: On the Figure of the Nonposthumous Survivor
Walid Sadek
Framed as posthumous, or that which lives on past its death, the survivor is tagged by official postwar discourses and practices an impediment to the...
As We Walk on Water
Robert Zhao Renhui
This project chronicles the significant changes in Singapore's natural and urban landscape. The images in this volume have been carefully selected to capture the changing...
Unnaming the System? Retrieving Postmodernism’s Contemporaneity
Bill Roberts
This article discusses the ongoing pertinence to the present of Fredric Jameson's work on postmodernism in the context of recent elaborations of “the contemporary” and...
Anishinaabe Artists, of the Great Lakes? Problematizing the Exhibition of Place in Native American Art
Christopher T. Green
This article discusses the relationship between Native American art and place as a curatorial strategy in the recent exhibition Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe...
A Conversation with Hsieh Tehching, from The Black Cover Book
Jon Solomon
This is a translation of a 1993 conversation involving three artists from the Chinese diaspora Hsieh Teh-Ching, Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing. Through candid dialog...
Price or Prize: The Artist as Vertreter
Sven Spieker
This article discusses different modes of delegation in Martin Kippenberger's work. Drawing both on the artist's work as a painter in post-II WW Berlin and...