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Former West : Art and the Contemporary after 1989, Paperback / softback Book

Former West : Art and the Contemporary after 1989 Paperback / softback

Edited by Maria (Artistic Director, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst) Hlavajova, Simon Sheikh

Part of the Former West series

Paperback / softback

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Explorations of the "formering" of the West in contemporary art in the post-communist, postcolonial, posthuman, post-ideological, and posthistorical era. What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War?

Why hasn't the West simply become "former," as has its supposed counterpart, the "former East"?

In this book, artists, thinkers, and activists explore the repercussions of the political, cultural, and economic events of 1989 on both art and the contemporary.

The culmination of an eight-year curatorial research experiment, Former West imagines a world beyond our immediate condition.

The writings, visual essays, and conversations in Former West-more than seventy diverse contributions with global scope-unfold a tangled cartography far more complex than the simplistic dichotomy of East vs.

West. In fact, the Cold War was a contest not between two ideological blocs but between two variants of Western modernity.

It is this conceptual "Westcentrism" that a "formering" of the West seeks to undo. The contributions revisit contemporary debates through the lens of a "former West." They rethink conceptions of time and space dominating the legacy of the 1989-1990 revolutions in the former East, and critique historical periodization of the contemporary.

The contributors map the political economy and social relations of the contemporary, consider the implications of algorithmic cultures and the posthuman condition, and discuss notions of solidarity-the difficulty in constructing a new "we" despite migration, the refugee crisis, and the global class recomposition.

Can art institute the contemporary it envisions, and live as if it were possible?Contributors include Nancy Adajania, Edit Andras, Athena Athanasiou, Zygmunt Bauman, Dave Beech, Brett Bloom, Rosi Braidotti, Susan Buck-Morss, Campus in Camps, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chto Delat?/What is to be done?, Jodi Dean, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Angela Dimitrakaki, Dilar Dirik, Marlene Dumas, Keller Easterling, Charles Esche, Okwui Enwezor, Silvia Federici, Mark Fisher, Federica Giardini and Anna Simone, Boris Groys, Gulf Labor Coalition, Stefano Harney, Sharon Hayes, Brian Holmes, Tung-Hui Hu, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Sami Khatib, Delaine Le Bas, Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann, Isabell Lorey, Sven Lutticken, Ewa Majewska, Suhail Malik, Artemy Magun, Teresa Margolles, Achille Mbembe, Laura McLean, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Sandro Mezzadra, Walter D.

Mignolo, Aernout Mik, Angela Mitropoulos, Rastko Mocnik, Nastio Mosquito, Rabih Mroue, Pedro Neves Marques, Peter Osborne, Matteo Pasquinelli, Andrea Phillips, Nina Power, Vijay Prashad, Gerald Raunig, Irit Rogoff, Naoki Sakai, Rasha Salti, Francesco Salvini, Georg Schoellhammer, Christoph Schlingensief, Susan Schuppli, Andreas Siekmann, Jonas Staal, Hito Steyerl, Mladen Stilinovic, Paulo Tavares, Tr?nh Th?

Minh Ha, Florin Tudor, Mona Vatamanu, Marina Vishmidt, Marion von Osten, McKenzie Wark, Eyal Weizman

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