Review of the 12th Istanbul Biennial
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NEW: ARTMargins Print 9:2
ARTMargins is pleased to announce the publication of ARTMargins Print 9:2. The current issue of the journal ties together several threads that run across our contemporary “geography of art,” entangling territories and themes once divided by ideological and political barriers. Three articles, an exhibition review, a Document section, and an Artist Project all direct our attention to certain tendencies in late-20th/early-21st-century art, culture, and politics: from Cold War networks of anticapitalist solidarity between the Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, to connections and convergences situated both within and beyond the major centers of the Western post-World War II neo-avant-gardes (Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires). Fast-forwarding to the present, we then look at some of the more recent forms of cultural production in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) and Africa (Senegal), and conclude with an aesthetic meditation offered by Berlin-based artist Vadim Zakharov