Summary
85 – Taking a Stance
Taking a Stance
Fall 2015
Few critics have yet dared to challenge the intellectual power assumed by certain institutions and forums that shape artistic trends and condition the discourses. esse opens the debate on the forms and conditions at play when taking a critical stance in the world of contemporary art today. What does art criticism imply in today’s context?
Editorial
Feature
Kunstgriff: Art as Event, Not Commodity
Fashionably Late
Critical Distances
Resemblance, Doubt, and Ruin
When Images Take a Position: Didi-Huberman’s Brechtian Intervention
Critical Art, Critical Sense, and Receptivity
Reel-Unreel, by Francis Alÿs
Indigenous Voices and White Pedagogy
Self-Determination When Cash Rules Everything Around Us
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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.