Communistic curating

the absence of the artist

the curator as the new imperator, he ist the figure who controls the
context
the athoryty lies in the hand of the person who selects and edits etx
wenn wir von einer pluralen autorenschaft einer austellung ausgehen
machen wir den singularen individuelan Krator nutzlos oder unwichtig

References:
Read online

• Anti-Humanist Curating.
http://www.thepoliticalcurrencyofart.org.uk/research-strands/anti-
humanist-curating
• A different name for communism (conversation with Boris Groys,
Maria Lind, Anton Vidolke) http://ausstellungsdesign.hfg-
karlsruhe.de/sites/default/files/0414_0.pdf
• Andrzej Szcerski: Curating and the importance of art work.
http://www.worldofart.org/current/archives/733
• collective curating http://www.manifestajournal.org/collective-
curating
Paul O'Neill Beyond Group practice. http://zs.thulb.uni-
jena.de/rsc/iview/client/jportal_derivate_00233938/Manifesta_journa
l_8_2009_10_0020.TIF
• Manifesta Journal Nr. 8 http://zs.thulb.uni-
jena.de/rsc/iview/client/jportal_derivate_00233938/Manifesta_journa
l_8_2009_10_0020.TIF
• Make everything new. A project on communism 2006.
https://bookworks.org.uk/node/122 1

1hese days, anybody can tell you that communism has been defeated, and the freedom-loving West is
still celebrating. Yet the total condemnation of the grim totalitarian dictatorships that used communism
for their own ends have made it all-but-impossible to rescue some of the positive and useful ideas from
the philosophy. In Make Everything New, artists, writers and collectives present counter-narratives,
abstract and unrealistic projects, political commentary and satire inspired by communism that are
neither an historical overview nor a requiem for the past. This illustrated collection of partial and
subjective accounts of various creative practices becomes an experimental platform for ideas and an
attempt to see how the communist imagination can be materialized as art in the present day.
Contributors include 16 Beaver, Gopal Kalakrishnan, Michael Blum, AA Bronson, Maria Eichorn,
Factotum, Dmitry Gutov, Wu Ming, Aleksandra Mir, Sarah Pierce/The Metropolitan Complex, CK Rajan,
Pags Media Collective, Don t Rhine, Martha Rosier, Rob Stone, Alberto Toscano and Klaus Weber.
• Contemporary Art as Ars Memoriae: Curatorial Strategies for
Challenging the Post-Communist Condition.
http://www.iwm.at/publications/5-junior-visiting-fellows-
conferences/vol-xxv/contemporary-art-as-ars-memoriae/ letzter
zugriff august 2014
• The death of the author. Roland Barthes.
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/Gustafson/FILM
%20162.W10/readings/barthes.death.pdf
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