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Documenta
documenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
exhibition, similar in dimensions and world outreach to the "platforms" of the previous edition. Started in 1955, documenta
Documenta
documenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
is one of the largest and most influential exhibitions of contemporary art, taking place every five years (since the 1972 edition) in the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
city of Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
. The documenta 12 magazines, conceived and directed by Georg Schöllhammer
Georg Schöllhammer
Georg Schöllhammer is an Austrian curator, writer and editor, born in 1958 in Linz, Austria. He is one of the founders and the editor in chief of the influential art magazine Springerin based in Vienna and was the initiator, head and editor in chief of the Documenta 12 Magazines.Georg Schoellhammer...
, curator and editor-in-chief of Austrian magazine Springerin, invited over 90 publications - with different formats, media and orientations in the field of art, culture, and politics from around the world - to discuss about the motifs and themes of the 2007 edition. The project opened space for artists, art critics and theoreticians to plunge into an exercise of reflection on how major contemporary issues are presented in different socio-cultural contexts. The editorial team of documenta 12 magazines, run by Georg Schöllhammer
Georg Schöllhammer
Georg Schöllhammer is an Austrian curator, writer and editor, born in 1958 in Linz, Austria. He is one of the founders and the editor in chief of the influential art magazine Springerin based in Vienna and was the initiator, head and editor in chief of the Documenta 12 Magazines.Georg Schoellhammer...
, included international writers, curators and art critics such as Heike Ander, Fouad Asfour, Maria Berrios, Cosmin Costinas, Cordula Daus, Hu Fang
Hu Fang
Hu Fang/胡昉 is a fiction writer, art critic and curator. He is the Artistic Director of Vitamin Creative Space, an alternative art space in Guangzhou. Hu Fang studied at the Chinese Literature Department of Wuhan University. Hu Fang has published the "Sense Trilogy" novels...
, and Keiko Sei.
Invited two years before the exhibition (16 June-23 September 2007), the participating publications have generated over 300 articles, essays, interviews, commentaries and illustrated essays that are gathered in the documenta 12 magazines online journal http://magazines.documenta.de, where interested readers can assemble their own individual magazine. From these contributions also came out the three printed editions published by Taschen
Taschen
Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. It began as Taschen Comics publishing Benedikt's extensive comic collection...
: "Modernity?"; "Life!" and "Education:", related to the three leitmotifs of documenta 12: Is modernity our antiquity?, What is bare life? and What is to be done (Education)?
This communication process continues during the hundred days of exhibition in documenta-Halle. Editors and authors participate in lectures and meetings, and magazines issues are exposed to the public.
Participating magazines
- A Prior (Belgium) http://www.aprior.org
- AfterallAfterallAfterall is a nonprofit contemporary art research and publishing organisation. It is based in London, at Central St Martins College of Art & Design....
(England) http://www.afterall.org - AIDAAidaAida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...
(Japan) - Akhbar Al-AdabAkhbar Al-AdabAkhbar Al-Adab is a literary Arabic weekly newspaper founded by Egyptian novelist and editor-in-chief Gamal Al-Ghitani.*Current editor-in-chief: Gamal El-Ghitani*Current senior editor: Ezzat el Kamhawi...
(Egypt) http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/adab - Amkenah (Egypt)
- ArchNetArchNetArchNet is the world’s largest online databank of international architecture. It was developed at the University of Texas at Austin and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in co-operation with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture...
(USA) http://www.archnet.org/lobby.tcl - archplus (Germany) http://www.archplus.net
- Art China (China) http://www.duoyunxuan.com
- ART iT (Japan) http://www.art-it.jp
- Art WorldArt worldThe art world is composed of all the people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art. Howard S. Becker describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things,...
(China) http://www.duoyunxuan.com - art-ist (Turkey)
- arte y crítica (Chile) http://www.arteycritica.cl
- BidounBidounBidoun is a quarterly print magazine published in New York and subtitled "art and culture from the Middle East." The magazine was founded in 2004 by Editor-in-Chief Lisa Farjam...
(USA) http://www.bidoun.com - Birikim (Turkey) http://www.birikimdergisi.com/birikim/default
- Brumaria (Spain) http://www.brumaria.net
- Cabinet (USA) http://www.cabinetmagazine.org
- Camera Austria International (Austria)
- Canal ContemporâneoCanal ContemporâneoCanal Contemporâneo is a digital community and publication focused on Brazilian contemporary art. It holds and spreads information, knowledge and debates in its different online modules: e-bulletins, blogs, forums, portfolios and art calendar. Based on concepts like Virtual Community , Radical...
(Brazil) http://www.canalcontemporaneo.art.br - ChimurengaChimurengaChimurenga is a Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'. The word's modern interpretation has been extended to describe a struggle for human rights, political dignity and social justice, specifically used for the African insurrections against British colonial rule 1896–1897 and the guerrilla war...
(South Africa) http://www.chimurenga.co.za - Chindwin (Malaysia)
- Chto Delat? / What is to be done? (Russia) http://www.chtodelat.org
- CLiCKClick-Computing:* Point-and-click, a gesture made with a computer input device such as a mouse* Apache Click, a web application framework* Klik, a computer programming method* Clik!, a disk drive-Film and television:...
(Indonesia) http://www.kunci.or.id - Concrete Reflection (Macedonia)
- Criterios (Cuba) http://www.criterios.es/
- Critical InquiryCritical InquiryCritical Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by the University of Chicago Press. It is considered a leading journal within literary studies, and particularly in the field of critical theory....
(USA) http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq - Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art (Philippines) http://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org
- Curare A.C. (Mexico) http://www.curare.org.mx
- De Witte Raaf (Belgium) http://www.dewitteraaf.be
- diaTXT (Japan) http://www.kac.or.jp/
- DushuDushuDushu is a monthly Chinese literary magazine. First published in April 1979 with its leading article No Forbidden Zone in Reading, it has great influence on Chinese intellectuals....
(China) - empyre- (Australia) http://www.subtle.net/empyre
- esferapública (Colombia) http://www.esferapublica.org
- EurozineEurozineEurozine is a network of European cultural magazines based in Vienna, linking up more than 70 partner magazines and institutions from 34 European countries...
(Austria) http://www.eurozine.com - exindex (Hungary) http://www.exindex.hu
- FOCAS, Forum On Contemporary Art & Society (Singapore)
- Frakcija (Croacia) http://www.cdu.hr/frakcija/index.htm
- FrontiersFrontiersFrontiers is southern California's oldest and largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender magazine. It is distributed freely at gay bars, clubs and businesses throughout Southern California...
(China) http://www.taya.chinajournal.net.cn - Glänta (Sweden) http://www.glanta.org
- Grey RoomGrey RoomGrey Room is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering work in the fields art, media, and politics relating to architecture. The journal features articles, translations, interviews, dossiers and academic exchange. Grey Room is published quarterly, online and in hard copy, by the MIT Press....
(USA) http://mitpress.mit.edu/grey - IDEA arts + society (Romania) http://www.ideamagazine.ro
- INTO-GAL (Australia)
- journal BOL (Korea) http://www.insaartspace.or.kr
- Kakiseni.com (Malaysia) http://www.kakiseni.com
- kalamKalamʿIlm al-Kalām is the Islamic philosophical discipline of seeking theological principles through dialectic. Kalām in Islamic practice relates to the discipline of seeking theological knowledge through debate and argument. A scholar of kalām is referred to as a mutakallim...
(Indonesia) http://www.utankayu.org/en/ - kunst.ee (Estonia) http://www.kl.ee/kunstee
- Le Monde diplomatiqueLe Monde diplomatiqueLe Monde diplomatique is a monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first created mainly for a diplomatic audience as its name implies...
(France/Germany) http://www.monde-diplomatique.de - LTTR (USA) http://www.lttr.org
- Malmoe (Austria) http://www.malmoe.org
- Masharef (Israel)
- MaskaMaskaMaska is a 2009 Telugu action film. It was directed by B. Gopal and starred Ram.-Story:Krish is a happy-go-lucky guy who lives with his brother and sister-in-law. He woos a girl named Manju . Manju happens to be the daughter of a Mla Simhachalam...
(Slovenia) http://www.maska.si - MetronomeMetronomeA metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks — settable in beats per minute. These ticks represent a fixed, regular aural pulse; some metronomes also include synchronized visual motion...
(France) http://www.metronomepress.com - Metropolis M (Netherlands) http://www.metropolism.org
- Moscow Art Magazine (Russia) http://xz.gif.ru/
- MultitudesMultitudesMultitudes is a French philosophical, political and artistic monthly journal founded in 2000 by Yann Moulier-Boutang. It is thematically situated in the theoretical framework of the seminal work Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt...
(France) - Multitudes Guerrilla News
- n.paradoxa (England) http://www.ktpress.co.uk
- Naqd (Algeria) http://www.revue-naqd.net
- Natural SelectionNatural selectionNatural selection is the nonrandom process by which biologic traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. It is a key mechanism of evolution....
(New Zealand) http://www.naturalselection.org.nz - Neural magazineNeural magazineNeural is a printed magazine established in 1993 dealing with new media art, electronic music and hacktivism. It was founded by Alessandro Ludovico and Minus Habens Records label owner Ivan Iusco in Bari...
(Italy) http://www.neural.it/ - Off The EdgeOff the EdgeOff the Edge is a 1976 documentary film directed by Michael Firth. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.The film features backcountry skiing, extreme skiing and hang gliding in the Southern Alps. Despite being classed as a documentary, it does have some semblance of a...
(Malaysia) - Øjeblikket (Denmark) http://www.ojeblikket.net
- PagesPagesPages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the Mac OS X & iOS operating systems. The first version of Pages was announced on January 11, 2005, and was released one month later. The most recent Macintosh version,...
(Holanda) http://www.pagesmagazine.net - Pananaw, Philippine Journal of Visual Arts (Philippines)
- ParachuteParachuteA parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag, or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift. Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now most commonly nylon...
(Canada) - Performance ResearchPerformance researchPerformance Research is a quarterly journal that promotes a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in an expanding field of performance. Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope, its emphasis is on research in contemporary performance arts within changing cultures...
(England) http://www.performance-research.net - Piktogram (Poland) http://www.piktogram.pl
- PulgarPulgar-References:...
(Venezuela) - Punto de VistaPunto de VistaPunto de Vista was an Argentine journal founded in 1978 during the height of the military regime headed by General Jorge Videla...
(Argentina) http://www.bazaramericano.com/ - Radical PhilosophyRadical PhilosophyRadical Philosophy is a British academic journal of critical theory and continental philosophy, appearing six times a year. It was established in 1972 with the purpose of providing a forum for the theoretical work which was emerging in the wake of the radical movements of the 1960s, in philosophy...
(England) http://www.radicalphilosophy.com - RamonaRamonaRamona is a 1884 United States historical novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. It is the story of a Scots-Native American orphan girl in Southern California, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely...
(Argentina) http://www.ramona.org.ar - Remont Art Magazine (Serbia) http://www.remont.net/magazin/
- Revista de Critica Cultural (Chile) http://www.criticacultural.org
- RizomaRizomaRizoma is a village in Thessaly and belongs to the prefecture of Trikala. In the 1991 census it reported 1302 residents,a slight decrease from the 1339 inhabitants in 1981. It lies at 160 meters above sea level, 14 km north of the Prefectural capital Trikala...
(Brazil) http://www.rizoma.net - Sab0tSab0tSab0t is a Mexico City based tabloid pamphlet focused on art, activism, experimental narratives, media and net-culture. It is edited collectively using open source software, by members of the Possibleworlds.org virtual community, which is an economically self-sustained media initiative of the...
(Mexico) http://possibleworlds.org/sab0t/ - Sabei Phyu (Yangon)
- sentAp! (Malaysia)
- Shahrzad (Switzerland)
- SiteSiteA site is the location of an event, structure, object, or other thing, whether actual, virtual, abandoned , extant, or planned.*For a building site, see construction.*For a site on the World Wide Web, see website....
(Sweden) http://www.sitemagazine.net - Siyahi (Turkey) http://www.siyahi.net/
- springerin (Austria) http://www.springerin.at
- studioStudioA studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or the catchall term for an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, radio or television...
(Israel) - talawas (Vietnam) http://www.talawas.org
- Thai bookazine [Bangkok Documenta Magazine] (Thailand)
- The Sarai Reader
- Third TextThird TextThird Text is a bimonthly academic journal on art in global context. After founder and editor Rasheed Araeen's earlier art magazine Black Phoenix, started in 1978, published only three issues, it was relaunched as a theoretical art journal in 1987...
(England) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0952882 - TkH - Teorija koja Hoda (Walking Theory) (Serbia) http://www.tkh-generator.net/spip.php?rubrique6
- trópicoTrópicoTrópico is the compilation album released on June 22, 2009 by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona.-Track listing:# Historia de Taxi - Ricardo Arjona/Marc Anthony# Buenas Noches Don David - Gilberto Santa Rosa# Ella y Él - Ricardo Arjona...
(Brazil) http://www.uol.com.br/tropico - Urban China (China) http://www.urbanchina.com.cn
- Vacarme (France) http://www.vacarme.eu.org/
- ValdezValdezValdés is a surname of Asturian origin.Both in North and South America the spelling Valdez is very common.The exact meaning of "Valdés" is not clear...
(Colombia) - Vector (Romania) http://www.periferic.org/vector_publication.html
- velocidadcrítica (Mexico)
- Yishu (Canada) http://www.yishujournal.com
- Zehar (Spain) http://www.zehar.net
Magazines who participated but were not invited
- Mute Magazine (Great Britain) http://www.metamute.org