12/12/11 Merijn Oudenampsen
Franco Berardi is one of the controversial Italian thinkers who are seeking a solution for the gradually collapsing capitalistic system. For him, the best method of fighting today’s abuses comes from an unexpected corner, through love. (dit artikel is gepubliceerd in Metropolis M No 6 -2011-2012, waarin ook de Nederlandse vertaling te lezen is - nu in de winkel).
Creativity and the Capitalist City
Interview with Tino Buchholz
features 17.11.11 Nicola Bozzi
In a prologue of the Blicke Film Festival (Ruhr area, Germany), the Rottstrasse Gallery in Bochum is screening Creativity and the Capitalist City, a film about the search for creativity linked to struggles for affordable housing and working space in Amsterdam.
21/02/11 Jolien Verlaek
E-flux, the New York-based distributor of information on art, has taken the initiative of setting up a worldwide system of time-based currency for artists and curators. Anton Vidokle, co-founder of e-flux and Time/Bank talks about the motives behind this alternative economic service.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk on High-Performance Society
01/02/10 Michael Hübl
Du mußt dein Leben ändern (‘You Must Change Your Life’) is the last book in a trilogy on contemporary capitalism by Peter Sloterdijk. In this, his latest publication, the author focuses on our goal-oriented culture and the manner in which the individual, self-help book in hand, attempts to overcome his/her shortcomings in order to succeed. What role can art play in this over-ambitious, high-performance society?
reviews 20.01.09 Erik van Tuijn
Krefeld (GER)
Kunstmuseen Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters
12/10/08 - 25/01/09
How do you get an elephant into a matchbox? You squeeze him in of course. Or, if the Elephant is actually an oeuvre consisting of giant photo's, you could also make prints the size of stamps.