Politics

Since its inception, Spike Art Quarterly stands for independent, critical reporting on the arts, and provides the current cultural debates with emerging artists and leading writers. Thisissue looks for political alternatives and resistance into the art world, and includes discussions between Claire Fontaine's Fulvia Carnevale, Rory Rowan, Constant Dullaart & Toke Lykkeberg, portraits of Tobias Madison, Barbara Kruger and Omer Fast, an interview with Armen Avanessian, Liam Gillick on the British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, Chus Martínez on the role of art in generating new cultural forms...

This volume brings together essays on the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), iconographic documents and manuscripts of the author, and a script written by Sebald for a film ever made about the life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

First monograph.

The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

Datumo! recounts a quantification experiment lead by Julien Prévieux and based on the gazes of an audience watching artworks.

This issue brings together four articles (by Michel Antony, Loïc Foulon, Gilles Gourbin, Jean-Claude Sosnowski), two projects (by Michel Cordillot and Patrick Samzun), and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.

A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure

A disturbing view of the current state of affairs of the culture in which we live (catalogue).

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

Taking its cue from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, these five essays contemplate the language's role in moments of dramatic change, and ask how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions.

Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.

This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.

Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).

A both poetic and political text on ordinary racism towards the Romani people.

An overview of Giuseppe Stampone's recent works.

An history of the Gauche Prolétarienne—the most important revolutionary organisation in France after May 68.

This essay examines the concept of “missing citizens”, taking as a point of departure the violence in the French suburbs, and focusing on contemporary migrations and the construction of citizenships.

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

The possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now.

A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.

A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.

Published in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this edition (conceived by Alfredo Jaar) features the poem imagined in 1954 by the Italian filmmaker while visiting the grave of Italian Marxist revolutionnary Antonio Gramsci. In this poem, Pasolini meditates on life in front of Gramsci's tomb, evoking themes such as politics, poetry, sexuality, and Italy.

The last volume of the journal of political activist Jann-Marc Rouillan after his prison release.

Two documents and three articles: unpublished texts by Charles Fourier and Eugène Pottier; Georges Orsoni, Denis Andro, and Michel Antony address original perspectives on Fourierism and the spirit of utopia in general.

An investigation on former director of the IMF and the World Bank Jacques de Groote, sued by the Swiss courts for fraudulent privatization.

An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).

A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...

Reference monograph.

Education and totalitarianism, in Central and Eastern Europe: a multidisciplinary reflection on totalitarianism as a political and anthropological project which, paradoxically, puts the question of education at the center of its concerns.

This poetical and political text gives a both personal and collective account of Greece's crisis.

The chronicles of a troubled suburb of Paris.

A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.

A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.

A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”

A poetic manifesto against the brutality of all forms of power.

A dystopian tale describing a guerilla between fascist militias and utopist groups.

A parallel between the artistic paths of four leading figures in contemporary art: Enrico Castellani, Dan Colen, Dadamaino and Piotr Uklański.

Retrospective monograph of the work both conceptual and sensitive of Dadamaino (1930-2004), at the crossroads of major European postwar avant-garde movements.

Special offer for the purchase of Charles Fourier's complete works.

Issue devoted to the phalanstery and its (few) representations: a rigorous as well as singular contribution on the traditional ambiguities passing through the relationship between utopia and its image.

The most monumental auto-creative work ever made by Gustav Metzger (catalogue of the exhibition at MAC Lyon, with numerous archive documents, newly commissioned texts and a conversation with the artist).

Four short essays in which philosopher Alain Brossat analyzes the use of the term “democracy” in contemporary discourse.

Simone Debout's re-edited version of Fourier's essential work.

Political activist Jann-Marc Rouillan chronicles his life on parole after 25 years in prison. With illustrations by Marie-Claire Cordat.

This 3.5 meters-wide artist's book documents and extends a multifaceted installation by artist Andreas Fogarasi—at once a panoramic view of Istanbul, a public platform, a dysfunctional look-out and a touristic attraction.

First monograph.