Juliet Steyn has published widely on art and cultural criticism focusing on art, the politics of memory and identity and the language of display in museums and galleries. These themes have been addressed in the anthology Other than Identity: The subject, politics and art (1997) and her book The Jew: Assumptions of Identity (1999). She has taught at City University, London and been on the editorial board of Art History and a member of the AHRC peer review panel.
Nadja Stamselberg was awarded a PhD in cultural studies from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2008. She worked as an assistant editor of The Myth Of Europa, a London-published journal of transnational thought engaging with democracy, equality, and culture beyond the nation state and has taught at Kingston University and Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently working as a lecturer in cultural studies at Regents University, London.
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Contents
Illustrations
Reformzirkus by Asier Mendizabal 2008, Courtesy Carreras Mgica Gallery, Bilbao, photo: Marcus J. Leith
Yiannos Economou, Still from video, Pykros, 2006
Naked Freedom by Marina Grini and Aina mid, video, 2010.
Avis Newman, Passages: Walter Benjamin Monument, 1999, Port-Bou Spain
Cold Wa(te)r by Teresa Villaverde, Films de Tejo, video 2004, courtesy of Zentropa
Invisible State by Aisling Walsh, Fantastic Films, Ltd, video 2004, courtesy of Zentropa
The Language School by Andy Bausch, Rattlesnake Pictures, video 2004, courtesy of Zentropa
Deep England by Rachel Garfield, miniDV, 10mins, 2008
Deep England by Rachel Garfield, miniDV, 10mins, 2008
Deep England by Rachel Garfield, miniDV, 10mins, 2008
Deep England by Rachel Garfield, miniDV, 10mins, 2008
Deep England by Rachel Garfield, miniDV, 10mins, 2008
Deep England by Rachel Garfield, miniDV, 10mins, 2008
Emergency Biennale in Grozny, Chechnya, 23 February 2005. Artworks displayed on the Friendship place for few minutes
Emergency Biennale in Grozny, Chechnya, 23 February 2005. Attached to the tree: artwork by Seamus Farrell from the Cooked War series, 2005
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya / world tour / stop 1 in Paris at Palais de Tokyo, Site de Cration Contemporaine, February 23April 4, 2005
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya / world tour / stop 10 in San Francisco, 2008 World Social Forum and Playspace gallery of the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 25 January9 February 2008
Naked Freedom by Marina Grini and Aina mid, video, 2010
Naked Freedom by Marina Grini and Aina mid, video, 2010
Maquette of the US-Mexican border area between the Tijuana River Estuary (San Diego, US) and the informal border settlement of Los Laureles (Tijuana, Mexico), photo Helge Mooshammer
Participants of the Political Equator 3 meeting approaching the drain culvert in the US-Mexican border fence near the Tijuana River estuary, June 2011, photo Helge Mooshammer
Way station in the wastelands. Photo credit: Christian Srhaug.
Contributors
Richard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor and twenty-first century existentialist with special interests in liberation philosophy, strategic future studies and transmodernity.
Zygmunt Bauman is the Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds. His work, spanning nearly five decades, steadfastly refuses to be constrained by arbitrary disciplinary boundaries within the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Anthony Gardner is University Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of Graduate Studies at the Ruskin School of Art. He is an editor of the MIT Press journal ARTMargins and the book Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations (The South Project, 2013). His monographs Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art Against Democracy and (with Charles Green) Mega-Exhibitions: Biennials, Triennials and Documentas are forthcoming with the MIT Press and Wiley-Blackwell respectively.
Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne. He has written Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 197094 (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995) and The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2001), and has been an Australian correspondent for Artforum for many years. As Adjunct Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, he worked as a curator on Fieldwork: Australian Art 19682002 (2002), world rush_4 artists (2003), 2004: Australian Visual Culture (ACMI/NGVA, 2004), and 2006: Contemporary Commonwealth (ACMI/NGVA, 2006). His monograph (with Anthony Gardner) Mega-Exhibitions: Biennials, Triennials and Documentas is forthcoming with Wiley-Blackwell.
Marina Grini is a doctor of philosophy and works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. She is a freelance media theorist and curator, and has been involved in video art since 1982. In collaboration with Aina mid she has produced more than 30 video art projects, a short film, numerous video and media installations, internet websites and an interactive CD-ROM (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany).
Giuseppe Mastruzzo is the Director of the International University College of Turin, a leading centre for the interdisciplinary and critical study of law, economics and finance that calls for a broader understanding of the structural impact of legal institutions and innovations on markets and issues a challenge to the biases produced by mainstream theory. Mastruzzo holds an MA from the Kent Institute of Art & Design and a PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has taught in various universities around the world and at the Italian National School for Public Administration. From 2003 to 2007 he was Head of Studies and Research at Confservizi Lazio, the association of utilities and public-service companies in Rome.
