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Spike n° 56 – Culture Wars

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Portrait Otto Muehl
Can you separate an artist and their work? What if their life is itself an artwork? In the early 1970s Otto Muehl founded a commune that defied social norms and declared it a revolutionary artwork. About a failed experiment and what it can tell us about our own time. By Alison Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

Meditation: Outrage Inactivism
The free market of ideas is particularly insidious in that it veils our own ability to choose whether or not to conchie the hell out of the information wars at all. By Ella Plevin

Portrait Sandra Mujinga
Sandra Mujinga plays with economies of visibility and disappearance. The traditional identity politics of presence is reversed in order to operate out of hidden realms. If everything is surveilled, the biggest potential lies in not being seen. By Jeppe Ugelvig

Exhibition Histories
Christoph Schlingensief: “Please Love Austria! First Austrian Coalition Week.” A conversation between Matthias Lilienthal and Anselm Franke

Q/A Aria Dean
Is indie dead?

Statements
Where do we stand in Europe today, as it drifts further and further to the right? We asked cultural figures from four countries about the influence of the political right on the arts. By Schorsch Kamerun, Karol Radziszewski, Eva Blimlinger and Gergely Nagy

Field Note
What does it look like on the streets today when democratic elections take place in the centre of Europe, on the right edge of its Union? On politics in public space in Hungary. By Róza El-Hassan

Essay: Love Removal Machines
Neoliberalism turned a hard-won freedom into a duty and everybody became an artist. If, in 1968, breaking with the family was a prerequisite to living as one wished, fifty years later it is back with redoubled force. Through highways and byways, we have come full circle. By Rob Horning

Q/A Yewande Omotoso
Why #MeToo?

Interview Marianna Simnett
Marianna Simnett pushes her body to the limit – hyperventilating until she faints or injecting Botox into her vocal cords. Her films are about the complexities of gender, contamination, robot cockroaches, cosmetic manipulation, sworn virgins, and Freudian experiments. By Ella Plevin

Music
The past few years have seen the rise of a generation of young rappers who are as surreal as the time from which they have emerged. These figures are like collective hallucinations: they might be amazing or they might be terrible, but all of them are weird. By Dean Kissick

Q/A Asad Raza
What would Édouard Glissant fight for?

Architecture
The architects Gins and Arakawa dedicated their lives to immortality. Their designs and buildings force people to develop new behaviours and to change their bodies until one day they no longer need to die. By Elvia Wilk

Artists' Favourites
By Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian

Curator's Key
Ekaterina Degot, director and chief curator Steirischer Herbst, on Władysław Strzeminski's sketch for a mural for the Hotel Savoy in Łódz (1950)

Postcard
from Cracow by Hanka Podraza

Images Contributed
by Alice Creischer, Boris Mikhailov, Jonas Lund, Marjetica Potrč, Botond Kersztesi

Seduction
by Nicoletta Fiorucci, Susanne Gaensheimer, Philipp Timischl, Nora Turato, Axel Dibie

Focus View
"Jokes Seth Can't Tell” in Late Night with Seth Meyers by Jan Verwoert

Views Berlin
Ana Mendieta at Gropius Bau and Gallery Weekend Berlin by Chloe Stead and Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon by Eva Scharrer

Views Vienna
Bouchra Khalili at Secession and Gabriele Senn Galerie by Max L. Feldman, Katharina Schilling at Nathalie Halgand by Gianna Prein and an interview with Liam Gillick on his project with New Order by Rita Vitorelli

View Munich
An interview with the curator of Public Art Munich, Joanna Warsza, by Dorian Batycka

Views New York
Cici Wu at 47 Canal and Kirsten Pieroth at Mathew Gallery by Harry Burke and Gauri Gill and Julia Phillips at MoMA PS1 by Dean Kissick

Views Basel
Lynn Hershman-Leeson at HeK Basel, Martha Rosler at Kunstmuseum Basel, Raphaela Vogel at Kunsthalle Basel by Elise Lammer

Views Austria
Mika Rottenberg at Kunsthaus Bregenz by Daniela Stöppel and Ashley Hans Scheirl at Künstlerhaus in Graz by Guilherme Pires Mata

Views London
Joan Jonas at Tate Modern and Osías Yanov at Gasworks by Oliver Basciano and Julian Schnabel at Pace Gallery by Billie Muraben

Views Mexico City
Hugo Montoya at Parque Galería and “Memories of Underdevelopment” at Museo Jumex by Dorothée Dupuis

Views Hong Kong
Chiara Vigo at Para Site and “Emerald City” at K11 Art Foundation by Hera Chan, and Jes Fan at Empty Gallery by Alvin Li
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