Georg Schöllhammer

Ruben Arevshatyan

Sweet Sixties is a long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally oriented arts and research groups as well as individual artists, researchers, and media, Sweet Sixties investigates hidden histories or underexposed cultural junctions and exchange channels in the revolutionary period of the 1960s. In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world full of eerie displacements, gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity. The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs. The stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication.

Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde

Sweet Sixties

An experimental magazine project by the creative minds behind documenta 12, the world's most important contemporary art event (June 16 to September 23, 2007) The documenta 12 magazines are a collective worldwide editorial project linking over eighty print and on-line periodicals, as well as other media. In advance of the exhibition in Kassel, documenta 12 magazines have opened up a central site for reflection and visual contemplation. Since early 2006, influential journals in the realm of art, as well as specialist publications operating in discursive fields beyond the major art centres, have been publishing and discussing contributions ? essays, interviews, photo reportages, features, interventions from artists and articles of fiction ? in relation to documenta 12's three main themes: Is modernity our antiquity? What is bare life? What is to be done? The documenta 12 magazine will subsequently assemble and summarize these debates and provide a selection of core texts and images. Good texts help us to understand more about what we see: in this sense, the documenta 12 magazine aims to provide background knowledge prior to the exhibition, without restricting in any way the individual experience of viewing the artworks themselves. The broadly conceived themes of Modernity?, Life! and Education: are in fact intended to increase our appetite for images, because the significance of art lies within art itself ? in its ambiguity, contrariness and stubborn independence. The editors: Roger M. Buergel, artistic director documenta 12, exhibition organizer and author. Lives and works in Kassel, Germany. Ruth Noack, curator documenta 12, lecturer, writer, and exhibition organizer. Lives and works inKassel, Germany. Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack last curated the exhibition The Government (Kunstraum der Universit't L'neburg; MACBA-Museu d?Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Miami Art Central; Secession, Vienna; Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2003?05). Georg Sch'llhammer, director documenta 12 magazines, editor-in-chief and founding editor of springerin ? Hefte f'r Gegenwartskunst, author and curator. Lives and works in Vienna. Numerous publications, exhibitions and projects on contemporary art and architecture.

Documenta 12 Magazine No. 2, 2007 Life

Marius Babias

Ines Kappert

Katrin Klingan

Mathias Greffrath

Leap into the City: Seven Scenes from Europe ISBN 3-8321-7712-4 / 978-3-8321-7712-6 Clothbound, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 632 pgs / 190 color. / U.S. $40.00 CDN $48.00 August / Nonfiction and Criticism

Chișinău, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana : Cultural Positions, Political Conditions : Seven Scenes from Europe

Leap Into the City

Łukasz Ronduda

Since the 1970s Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek (KwieKulik) have pioneered the transformation of artistic practice into social experimentation. KwieKulik sought to reconcile artistic praxis with everyday life, essentially based on the premise that form is a fact of society. The couple's pioneering approach to film, photography, and multi-screen slide projection epitomises their unique variation of expanded cinema.This comprehensive monograph documents their collective works from 1971 to 1987, illuminating the radically unique position of the artists in the history of neo-avant-garde in Central Europe. The book covers and documents more than 200 events, and includes a 'KwieKulik Glossary', the collection of concepts introduced and applied by the artists. Published with the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, BWA Wroclaw-Galleries of Contemporary Art, ERSTE Foundation and The KwieKulik Archive, Warsaw-Lomianki.

Zofia Kulik & Przemyslaw Kwiek

KwieKulik

Krassimira Kruschkova

Martina Hochmuth

On Dance and Performance Since 1989

It Takes Place when it Doesn't

Heike Ander

Good texts help us to understand more about what we see: in this sense, 'The Documenta 12 Magazine' aims to provide background knowledge prior to the exhibition, without restricting in any way the individual experience of viewing the artworks themselves. The broadly conceived themes of Modernity? Life! and Education: are in fact intended to increase our appetite for images, because the significance of art lies within art itself - in its ambiguity, contrariness and stubborn independence. This Sampler comprises all three issues of the printed magazine in book form.

No 1 - 3, 2007 ; reader ; [Ausstellungsdauer 16. Juni bis 23. September 2007]

Documenta Magazine

Georg Schöllhammer

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