E-flux journal reader 2009
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Julieta Aranda Boeken
Julieta Aranda is een conceptueel kunstenaar wiens werk zich verdiept in de creatie en manipulatie van artistieke uitwisseling, en traditionele opvattingen over commercie door kunst uitdaagt. Haar praktijk, die installatie, video en drukwerk omvat, onderzoekt kritisch de economieën, arbeid en waardesystemen die verankerd zijn in de hedendaagse kunst. Aranda's benadering wordt vaak gekenmerkt door een speelse maar scherpe ondermijning van gevestigde systemen, waardoor toeschouwers worden aangezet om hun eigen rol en de circulatie van kunst te heroverwegen. Haar verkenningen onthullen een diepe betrokkenheid bij de culturele en economische krachten die de artistieke productie en receptie vormgeven.
The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404. If it ever existed, we couldn't see it. Because it has no shape. It has no face, just this name that describes everything and nothing at the same time. Yet we are still trying to climb onboard, to get inside, to be part of the network, to get in on the language game, to show up on searches, to appear to exist. But we will never get inside of something that isn't there. All this time we've been bemoaning the death of any critical outside position, we should have taken a good look at information networks. Just try to get in. You can't. Networks are all edges, as Bruno Latour points out. We thought there were windows but actually they're mirrors. And in the meantime we are being faced with more and more—not just information, but the world itself.ContributorsJulian Assange, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Benjamin Bratton, Diedrich Diederichsen, Keller Easterling, Rasmus Fleischer, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Ursula K. Heise, Brian Kuan Wood, Bruno Latour, Geert Lovink, Patricia MacCormack, Metahaven, Gean Moreno, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jon Rich, Hito Steyerle-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Let's be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling? e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle Contributors Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, and Hito Steyerl