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Articles published in Eurozine
Why the first martyrs weren't performance artists
The performance art of the 1960s and '70s transformed acting into religion: pain, blood and semen – they were doing it for real, writes Donatien Grau. The younger generation of performance artists are rejecting this heritage: their return to narrative is a way out of the mind-body dualism. [more]
Art and politics: A reappraisal
"There is no need for the western political artist to sail the seven seas looking for injustices to denounce. Inequality and exploitation saturate the ground on which we stand, they are in the grain of everyday life." Conceptual artist Victor Burgin on documentary art as the "new doxa". [more]
Stolen history (and other projects)
Together with A Prior Magazine the Eurozine Gallery presents four projects by Daniel Knorr. This, writes curator and critic Dieter Roelstraete, is an art "wholly woven into the bodily fabric of everyday life, of a relentless and vital physicality". [more]
On the lack thereof
Daniel Knorr's bare necessities
Daniel Knorr's work can described as a conceptually inflicted practice of very immateraial ideas, writes Dieter Roelstraete. "His is an art predicated on the immediate experience of the irreducible materiality of all thought, on the crafty mining of those ideas that lie dormant in matter, clutter, stuff." [more]
The continental unconscious
In preparing an exhibition on the contemporary art and culture of the "Finno-Ugrian world" -- peoples united by their language group across the Republics of Mordvinia, Udmurtia, Mari El, and Komi -- curator Anders Kreuger had to travel to "the periphery of the periphery". [more]
Zones of indifference
The world in a "state of exception": On the relations of "populism", "public sphere" and "terrorism"
The events of 9/11 introduced a "state of exception". As a result, the social and political struggles of the de-classed now operate in a zone of indifference which threatens democracy. [more]
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