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The Contemporary, the CommonArt in a Globalizing World

table of contents
Preface


THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY

Understanding the Idea of Community [ 2000–01 ]
Jean-Luc Nancy – Chantal Pontbriand: An Exchange [ 2000 ]
Anri Sala: One Era Dissolves into Another [ 2004 ]
Claire Fontaine, after Giorgio Agamben [ 2008 ]
Massimo Guerrera: A Politically Sensitive View of Design [ 2006]
Yvonne Rainer: Courageous Shifts, from Self to Community [ 2004–09 ]
From Utopia to the Commonplace [ 2007 ]
The Laboratory Effect of 9 Evenings [ 2007 ]
This Way: Polis, Ethos, Esthesis [ 2007 ]
Beyond Work [ 2008 ]
Dora García: What Makes a Real Artist [ 2010 ]


GLOBALIZATION
THE COMMON AND THE SINGULAR AT LARGE

The Tectonic Plates of the Art World [ 2001–07 ]
Istanbul: A Biennial Speaks to the World [ 2005 ]
Mike Kelley: Dance, Monuments, Religion [ 2000 ]
Magna Carta: Mapping Moments in 2007 [ 2008 ]
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Modes of Utopia [ 2007 ]
Rabih Mroué: Language, Performativity, Violence [ 2006 ]
On Disquiet: Violence and Images [ 2009 ]
War with Images: A Response to Judith Butler [ 2009 ]
Sigalit Landau: Building a Different World, an Aesthetics of Fluidity [ 2011 ]
Ion Grigorescu: Performing History in Suspended Spaces [ 2011 ]
The DNA (No) Recipe: For Yael Bartana [ 2011 ]


EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS
ART BEYOND BORDERS

Expanded Dance: A Turning Point [ 2002 ]
Notes on Sound and the Usage of Art [ 2002 ]
Björk's Autofiction [ 2001 ]
João Fiadeiro: I Am Here [ 2004 ]
Michel François: The Liberated Eye [ 2003 ]
The Relational Image [ 2000–04 ]
Performance and Photography [ 2005 ]
The Exploding Documentary [ 2005 ]
Video Chaosmos [ 2006 ]
Gordon, Parreno, Zidane: Dewey in Times of Chaosmos [ 2006 ]
Carsten Höller: Vertigo as the Kairos [ 2006 ]
Johan Creten: Open and Dissolute, the Mobile Border [ 2008 ]
Rabih Mroué: Back to Back [ 2011 ]
Judgment, Democracy: Making Art, Producing Acts [2005–06 ]


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