Jay Chung,
for him / Fulvia Carnevale,
The emancipated reader / Catherine Chevalier,
Critique x / Stefan Germer,
Haacke, Broodthaers, Beuys /
Michael Krebber,
René Magritte's Période Vache at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt /
Anne Marquez,
The impossible on display according to JLG Stories of exhibitions in the Pompidou Center /
Constructing Your Persona in a Private Media Space (An email interview between Antek Walczak and Eva Svennung) /
Benjamin Thorel,
On the edge of things – Clément Rodzielski: pictures, panels and mirrors /
Karl Holmqvist,
Josef Strau at Malmö Konsthall /
Vincent Romagny,
As of Pierre Leguillon presents Diane Arbus: a printed retrospective (1960-1971) /
Jean-Pierre Rehm,
Let's hold back our tears /
Contributions à une guerre en cours, Agamben - Hazan - Tiqqun
, re-transmission (maquettes-sans-qualité, < ... - histoire du présent - ... >) /
Excerpts from Grand Openings Book.
While realizing this magazine, we didn't want to express the point of view of a constituency or of an intellectual, social or professional category: the authors, through their participation, reveal that the classifications in which artists and critics are confined are inadequate. Rather, we wanted to build this space at a moment when other issues seem to take priority (economic and political crisis, capitalization of knowledge and the subsequent deterioration of liberties) and many resign to a situation characteristic of our time—the indistinction between information and publicity.
Editorial, p. 17
Launched in 2009 in Paris, May revue examines, once or twice a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
It features essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts.