Fall/Winter 2020 issue is out now!

Editorial: “The Global Now”: Apotheosis and Decline

Maria Stavrinaki

“Are we in the process of already freeing ourselves from the grip of the “global”? In the Anthropocene age, when human beings are casting themselves, in real time, in the triple role of agents, witnesses and historians of the interactions of climate, living world and geology, the epistemological “too human” category of the “global” is experiencing both its apotheosis and the beginning of its decline, in favour of the “planetary”. To be sure, the two categories are far from being incompatible, and what Anna Tsing has mischievously called “the charisma of the global” is brandishing its effectiveness more than ever in the human sciences, as is illustrated by the recognition this notion is enjoying in western institutions and in one or two extremely interesting publications reported in this issue of Critique d’art. But this “charisma” is qualified, not to say flawed, by new questions which are currently exercising knowledge, discourse and art praxis and, needless to add, the political word […]”

Articles:

A Rhythmic-Cosmic Language: Folk Art as a Global Resource, by Marina Dmitrieva

Habeas Corpus: a Body of Art from the Incarcerated America by Anna Iatsenko

Radio Art, Between Autonomy and Hybridation by David Christoffel

Drawing and Scientific Environments, from Ruskin to Rover by Anne-Lyse Renon

Portraits:

Brook Andrew by Menene Gras Balaguer

Hubert Duprat by Jean-Marc Huitorel

Interview:

Anselm Franke, About Kanon-Fragen by Maria Stavrinaki

Translation:

« Le Dilemme décisionnel », ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence by Diana Taylor, introduced by David Zerbib

Essay:

The Countryside, the Future: Art and Rurality in Times of Crisis by Camille Azaïs, introduced by Elitza Dulguerova and Adeline Blanchard

Revisiting History:

Across the Past and Present of Engaging with Colonial Contexts in the Arts and in Cultural Institutions by Felicity Bodenstein

The Exhibition. Theories and Practices by François Aubart

Considering Duchamp, Again by Marc Décimo

In Real Life – A Reflection on the “Online Exhibition” by Adeena Mey and David Morris

The Exhibition as Hypothesis by Jean-Marc Poinsot

Archives:

Germano Celant: Archive as Practice by Lara Conte

Reviews:

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