Collectives Without Consensus?
Summary
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Collectives
Winter 2022
This issue examines how working collectively problematizes power relations within art institutions and groups and how this affects the implementation of less hierarchical structures. Given the urgent need to act, in a world where a state of emergency has become permanent, laboratories of social action, interdisciplinary research groups, and international discussion forums are forming on the margins of the art field. Seeking alternative forms of “being together,” these new collectives are reviving the concerns of several decades of shared creation.
Editorial
Feature
The Shared Condition of Individual Thought
No One Gives a F**k About a Cop and Fredy: Conveying the Voices of the Collectivity
Toward an Ecology of Practices: The Research Group as Artist
Imagining Otherwise: The Indigenous Curatorial Collective on the Expansive Possibilities of Collective Work
Curating the School
Talking Cure: Dialogue as Collaborative Resistance
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Abstractions
Spring Summer 2025
Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.