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Spike n° 51 – Can Art Help?

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ARTIST'S FAVOURITES
by Grzegorz Kowalski

CURATOR'S KEY
Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, on Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours (1994)

EXHIBITION HISTORIES
“Freeze” may have been the most successful student show of all time. Angela Bulloch speaks about the exhibition which was organised by Damien Hirst in 1988 in London

ONE WORK
Tenzing Barshee on Cyprien Gaillard's video Desniansky Raion (2007)

Q/A DOROTHEA VON HANTELMANN
What can art do as art?

ROUNDTABLE: A LANGUAGE TO COME
The art world is under the thrall of a new political urgency. Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise and Dieter Lesage talked about the power of art and its social role

POSTCARD
by Martha Kirszenbaum from the Café de Flore, Paris

IMAGES CONTRIBUTED BY
Nina Könnemann, Michael Hakimi, Talia Chetrit, Min Yoon, Mitchell Syrop

Q/A KENNY SCHACHTER
Can art still be fun?

PORTRAIT TETSUMI KUDO
With its fluorescent colors, organic forms and apocalyptic scenography, the work of the Japanese artist makes the boldest post-Internet art look like its impoverished nephew. By Joanna Fiduccia

PORTRAIT DOROTHY IANNONE
The artist is best known for paintings celebrating the “ecstatic unity” of her relationship with the artist Dieter Roth. She was connected to Fluxus, but too uncompromising in how she brought her personal life, identity and sexuality into her art to be considered part of its canon. By Barbara Casavecchia

PORTRAIT MARIE ANGELETTI
The French artist ties her art, the conditions of its production, the artist's life, her exhibitions and commissions and the circulation and distribution of images into a knot that is impossible to untangle. By Dominikus Müller

INTERVIEW JOSEF STRAU
The artist spoke to Anna Gritz about deeply rooted behavioural patterns, subjectivity as a system, alternative economic models – and how in the end, although he hated it so much, art is what saved him.

Q/A DANIEL BAUMANN
What is the promise of form?

ESSAY: FATE AND FORM
In art, love and politics the first moments of an encounter are crucial. They determine what happens next, whether it goes well or goes badly, if it leads to happiness or misery. How can art help give us a sense for the appropriate forms of conduct when we meet others? By Jan Verwoert

FASHION
Nobodies are on the catwalk. Fashion is no longer celebrity-obsessed. By Dean Kissick

BOOKS
Christian Kracht's and Christoph Ransmayr's dense and enigmatic artifical worlds. By Jan Küveler

SEDUCTION
by Robert Müller, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, John Holten, Stefanie Kleefeld, Warren Neidich

TV
The Crown: the British Royal Family and the lost dream of empire. By Steven Warwick

VIEW
Andrew Berardini on Jimmie Durham's retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles

VIEWS
from Los Angeles, New York, London, Basel, Bern, Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna

THE END IS NIGHT
Outsourcing is distance times remove. By Shumon Basar
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