03 Nov 2010

SPIKE ISSUE 25 OUT NOW!

We are pleased to announce our new issue of spike!

CONTENTS

ESSAY

Canadian theatre-maker and writer Jacob Wren observes his own daily personal experiences with the Internet, how it creates helplessness, put a damper on curiosity, how it is democratic as well as authoritarian – and accessible.

TALK

The musician Jarvis Cocker and the British artist Gavin Turk talk about Pop, Reality TV, activating the audience and the concept of Altermodernity.

ARTIST'S FAVOURITES

By Rachel Harrison: Lucy Raven, Helen Marten, Clifford Borress, Alisha Kerlin, Peter Fend

PORTRAITS

Minimalism, spirituality and handicraft. The time is ripe for a re-evaluation of American artist John McCracken. By Daniel Baumann

»We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us«, claimed Marshall McLuhan in 1964. Viennese-based artist Christian Mayer recently pursued the traces of these tools to the English and Finnish provinces. By Andreas Schlaegel

The Israeli video artist Yael Bartana succeeds in breaking down the borders between documentation and myth, fact and fiction. By Raimar Stange

PERFORMANCE

Narcissister: an image that changes itself, an almost inhuman being, always behind a mask, an organ without a body. By Raimundas Malašauskas

PRINTED MATTER

This summer, Revolver Verlag published a book about a curious diversion – the »photo shot«. By Brigitte Felderer

ARCHITECTURE

Michele D’Aurizio on a turbo-urban apartment house in Tirana by Genoese architects baukuh.

CURATOR’S KEY

Adam Szymczyk, Director of the Kunsthalle Basel, on things that are holes in things they are not.

Magali Arriola talks with Fernando Mesta, the Director of Gaga, about the necessity of an unconventional gallery in Mexico.

Two collections, that couldn’t be more different. The eccentric Armand Schulthess and the artist Ingeborg Lüscher. By Andreas Schlaegel


Brussels holds a strange allure for international artists and curators. Esperanza Rosales on an alternative to the market-oriented centers of London, Paris, and Berlin.

Reviews from New York, Vienna, Krems, Berlin, Bielefeld, Stuttgart, Zurich, Venice, Barcelona, Copenhagen


If you happen to be in Vienna in November, look us up at the Vienna Art Week (15.11–21.11). There will be performances with Sue Tompkins, Christian Falsnaes, and Rancourt/Yatsuk Thursday night at COCO curated by spike.

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