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Considering Forgiveness

Why forgiveness, and why now? Forgiveness emerges from the pages of this book--the first in a new series that examines political issues through a variety of distinct practices--as a political, psychological and aesthetic strategy. Featuring original essays, interviews, an illustrated poem, storyboards and digital collages by the likes of theorist Julia Kristeva, curator Mark Godfrey and artists Gregg Bordowitz, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Considering Forgiveness mines this concept for its political and artistic potential. The book is edited by psychoanalyst and writer Aleksandra Wagner, with Vera List Center Director Carin Kuoni and artist Matthew Buckingham. Subsequent issues will also be edited by a collaborative team of a scholar and an artist.
A practicing psychoanalyst, Wagner is the editor of Cabinet’s 2008 issue on Shame and the 1994 Sarajevo Survival Guide. Buckingham utilizes photography, film, video, audio, writing and drawing to question the role social memory plays in contemporary life.  > more

CONSIDERING FORGIVENESS
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Time Action Vision

In Time Action Vision, Christian Höller, of the interdisciplinary Critical Curatorial Cybermedia program at the University of Art and Design in Geneva, conducts 12 conversations on the topics of cultural studies, postcolonialism, globalization, activism and cultural participation. His interlocutors are some of the most respected theoreticians and activists working today: groundbreaking Black Atlantic author Paul Gilroy, Birmingham School founder Stuart Hall (Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Postwar Britain), prolific author Tariq Ali (The Clash of Fundamentalisms), former Weather Underground member (and famed Obama associate) Bill Ayers, Marxist geography scholar David Harvey (Social Justice and the City), London-based art theorist and critic Irit Rogoff, Israeli-born scholar of postcolonialism and transnationalism Ella Shohat, South African postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe, French filmmaker (and Godard collaborator) Jean-Pierre Gorin, cultural studies scholar Lawrence Grossberg, Australian cultural studies scholar Meaghan Morris and Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.  > more

TIME ACTION VISION
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Hans Ulrich Obrist: Battery City: A Post-Olympic Beijing Mini-Marathon

On January 31, 2008, Swiss curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted a "marathon" of conversations in Beijing, after the example of his famous Serpentine Gallery marathons. This marathon called on artists, cultural producers and media practitioners to discuss the post-Olympic state of the city. Participants included internationally renowned artists Ai Weiwei and Cao Fei, writer and publisher Hung Huang, fashion designer Zhang Da and many others. Topics discussed included everyday life in contemporary Chinese society, the impact of the Olympic Games and the role of the internet in daily life.  > more

HANS ULRICH OBRIST: BATTERY CITY: A POST-OLYMPIC BEIJING MINI-MARATHON
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TABLE OF CONTENTS | NONFICTION & CRITICISM

Curatorial & Museum Studies Art Criticism, Theory & History Artists' Writings, Letters & Interviews Photography Criticism & Theory Cultural Studies

CURATED LIBRARIES | FEATURED SELECTIONS A Curator's Bookshelf A Relational Aesthetics Bookshelf A Feminist Art Bookshelf Performance Art Bookshelf A Sound Art Bookshelf Key Writings on Photography MFA Publications: Artworks Series

FEATURED TITLES THIS SEASON In Our Own Image Time Action Vision How to Do Things with Art Seen, Written Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Galleries But Were Afraid to Ask The Biennial Reader Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists Native Land From an Artist's Perspective

BESTSELLERS | CORE CRITICISM AND THEORY TITLES A Brief History of Curating Air Guitar André Breton: Surrealism And Painting Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg Art in Its Own Terms Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005 Between the Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics The Blaue Reiter Almanac A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections about the Book & Writing The Century Of Artists' Books Concerning the Spiritual in Art Cooling Out Crisis of the Real Curating and the Educational Turn The Dada Seminars Donald Judd: The Complete Writings 1959-1975 Futurist Manifestos Gerhard Richter: Writings Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2 Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews Harald Szeemann High Times, Hard Times In the Making Inside the Photograph Inside The Studio Interviews By Mike Kelley: 1986-2004 Interviews Volume 1 By Gerald Matt Interviews Volume 2: By Gerald Matt Letters to a Young Artist Liam Gillick: Proxemics Light Matters Modernism And Modernity The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude No Longer Innocent: Book Art In America 1960-1980 Paul Gauguin: Letters To His Wife And Friends Photography After Frank Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art Rethinking the Contemporary Art School Right About Now Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No.3 Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 2 Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 4 Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers Seven Structual Engineers: The Felix Candela Lectures Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books Theft Is Vision A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns Utopia Parkway: The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornell White: Whiteness And Race In Contemporary Art World Art Studies