Articles
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Elisabeth Mayerhofer
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public space
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01.02.2009
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EVERYTHING’S UNDER CONTROL:THE REGULATION OF PUBLIC SPACES IN VIENNA
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| Vienna is known for its stable administration, which provides a consistent political climate. The Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has held the position of mayor
of Vienna since 1945. In the last decade, however, there has been a restructuring that featured the privatization of structures previously been under public control—at least the Austrian private companies (GmbHs) with close ties… |
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François Coadou
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reproduction
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01.02.2009
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DOCUMENTATION CÉLINE DUVAL
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| Ever since the late 90’s, Céline Duval has been collecting photos: amateur snapshots, postcards, photos cut out from magazines, as well as her own pictures. Out of this collection, which the artist calls documentation céline duval (without any capital letters) she has edited a series of publications: prints, books, as well as a magazine, mailed directly to her subscribers: “La revue en 4 images”,… |
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Gerald Raunig
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time
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01.02.2009
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RAPIDITÉ! ACCELERATING MODESOF SUBJECTIVATION IN PROTO-POSTFORDISM
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| Jacques Tati, as this piece will explore, is an early participant of the proto-postfordist avant garde in the middle of the 20th century. Film critics often misunderstand Tati’s work as a criticism of civilization and a denunciation of the unreasonable demand of modernism. They especially misinterpreted Tati’s first feature film, Jour de Fête, in this way, due to its idyllic framework (and, above… |
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Herwig G. Höller
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cultural policy
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01.02.2009
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GRAZ AS A PLATFORM FOR ART GRAZ AS A PLATFORM FOR ART FROM EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
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| The past doesn’t determine the blossoming of international cultural contacts: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) in the tradition famous US inventors, broke off his technical studies in Graz because of nationalistic trash talk. The German nationalist-dominated student community was less than pleased with that talented Serb from Gospić. Hollywood director Otto Preminger (1906-1986) carried with him bad… |
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Karin Kirchmayr
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comics
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01.02.2009
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COMIC SCENE IN AUSTRIA
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| “Children’s books... bound children’s books?” the customs officer on the Czech-Austrian border asks Nicolas Mahler and Heinz Wolf. The two independent publishers of Edition Brunft, which they’ve produced in Czech, are trying to check 2000 copies through customs. “Actually, they’re comics,” says Wolf. “Comics,” the official repeats while taking a quick look through the book. “What’s it good for?”… |
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Karl Kilian
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01.02.2009
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EIN EXEMPLARISCHES ÖSTERREICHISCHES KÜNSTLERLEBEN ODER: "OY PALME EY!"
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| Chapter 1 - Tossing Records at Evil - At the start of the new millennium, I am sitting in my favorite club, Rhiz, famed as one of the testing-grounds for experimental electronic music in the 1990s. On stage: a giant angularly-formed skull made of Styrofoam hangs from above, its horns point evilly upward. At the front of the stage: a white guy dressed in a tunic-like garment and a black plastic… |
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Katarína Uhlířová
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new face
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01.02.2009
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AMERICAN SCULPTRESS
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| I’m hesitating how best to introduce Jana Kochánková (born 1979). I want to touch on, but not slavishly recite, everything surprising and fun about her work. So, by way of a very short, cursory introduction: Jana Kochánková, AKA Koko, American sculptress, graduated in 2006 from Vladimír Skrepl and Jiří Kovanda’s studio at the Academy of Creative Arts (AVU) in Prague. This article is supposed to… |
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Magdaléna Bažantová
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art market
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01.02.2009
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IMPORT EXPORT ULRICH SEIDL
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| In Ukraine, water does not flow, and colors—if there ever were any—have long faded away. People do not take their hats off when they are inside, they do not greet each other, and they are often ill. Austria cares a great deal about neatness. Perhaps it’s thanks to the abundance of corpses? Dead stuffing, dead relationships, population growing old. People are closer to buffers than to housekeepers… |
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