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The class pushover
22.04.13
This winter’s commotion over OCA and KORO is a symptom that the art field is the class pushover – the kid who puts up with being ignored and bulldozed.
The Populist Face of Cultural Politics
14.09.12
Mark Sladen’s departure from Kunsthal Charlottenborg shows how populist cultural politics have taken firm hold on the Danish art scene. What about the rest of Scandinavia?
The Dream about an International Kunsthal
23.04.12
Following ten months of an emerging Kunsthal Charlottenborg, recent events lead one to consider whether a serious desire to establish an international art venue in Copenhagen ever actually existed.
Critical Collapse at Tensta Konsthall
28.02.12
Maria Lind brushes aside criticism of her collaboration with the Lundin-owned Bukowskis for Abstract Possible. “The project is not about taking a position,” Lind stated during Thursday’s debate at Tensta Konsthall.
Challenging the Finns
09.12.11
In April 2011 the election success of the populist party True Finns shook Finland and unleashed unprecedented public debate about immigration. Has contemporary art responded?
From escape attempt to institutional strategy
17.11.11
Terms of Belonging, Artists: Libia Castro (ES) & Ólafur Ólafsson (IS), Kajsa Dahlberg (SE), Luca Frei (CH), Gåafstand (Pia Rönicke & Nis Rømer) (DK), Olivia Plender (UK), Superflex (DK), Althea Thauberger (CA) and Johan Tirén (SE). Curators: Johan Lundh (SE) and Aileen Burns (CA) , Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, 3. September - 6. November 2011
When political rhetoric is used in the service of the art institution, the critique of the institution goes bankrupt.
Forget the Children, They Are Already Corrupted
26.10.11
The New Model, Lars Bang Larsen, David Hullfish Bailey, Magnus Bärtås and Hito Steyerl (absent), Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, 8. October 2011
The seminar series The New Model at Tensta Konsthall wants to discuss the future, but never succeeds in leaving Palle Nielsen’s seventies.
Norwegian Terrorism
07.09.11
The cultural sector's opposition to right-wing populism and fascism has been strong but implicit. Perhaps in the time to come that opposition will require more direct expression.
Towards the revolution of the working audience
01.07.11
In Olafur Eliasson's ideological universe the audience contributes to the artworks to such an extent that the artist understands it as labour. But at what cost?