SUMMER 2021 [UNTITLED] - SOLD OUT

‘…’WHAT HAS BEEN’… IS TO BECOME… THE FLASH OF AWAKENED CONSCIOUSNESS… THE FACTS BECOME SOMETHING THAT JUST NOW FIRST HAPPENED TO US, FIRST STRUCK US… THERE IS A NOT-YET-CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT HAS BEEN; IT’S ADVANCEMENT HAS THE STRUCTURE OF AWAKENING…’

CRITICAL THEORY REVISITED: A RADICAL RE-THINKING THAT CHALLENGES THE OFFICIAL VERSION OF HISTORY AND INTELLECTUAL ENDEAVOUR?

GENUINE MEMORY YIELDS AN IMAGE OF THE PERSON WHO REMEMBERS: REDISCOVERING THE PAST AS THE ACTUALISATION OF THE PRESENT

I KNOW THE WISH OF MINE THAT WAS FULFILLED… IT TOOK SHAPE IN ME… EARLY ON A WINTER MORNING, AT HALF PAST SIX.. THIS WISH: TO BE ABLE TO SLEEP MY FILL. I MUST HAVE MADE THAT WISH A THOUSAND TIMES, AND LATER IT ACTUALLY CAME TRUE. BUT IS WAS A LONG TIME BEFORE I RECOGNIZED ITS FULFILMENT IN THE FACT THAT ALL MY CHERISHED HOPES FOR A POSITION AND PROPER LIVELIHOOD HAD BEEN IN VAIN

ART: AGENT OF SECRET DISCONTENT OF CAPITALIST SOCIETIES WITH THEIR OWN RULES?

NEW GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY: A LONG-LOST WORK THAT HAS AT ITS CENTRE A LONELINESS WHICH PULLS THE WORLD DOWN INTO ITS VORTEX WITH THE FORCE OF A MAELSTROM

CONTEMPORARY ART: A MIMESIS OF THE ‘BROKEN PROMISE’ (OF FREEDOM - OF HAPPINESS) OF ART ITSELF?

JOSELIT AFTER ART CRITICISM? BOOK REVIEW: JOSELIT; AFTER ART: POSITIVISTIC (RATHER THAN CRITICAL) ASSESSMENT OF THE REDUCTION OF ARTISTIC FORM TO THE CULTURAL TECHNOLOGY OF ‘FORMATS’?

A DOUBLE AND CONTRADICTORY MOVEMENT: THE PROBLEMATICITY OF FORM: ATTEMPTED DISSOLUTION AND REFLECTIVE EXPANSION OF ARTISTIC FORM ITSELF, THAT RE-ENACTS THE PROBLEMATIC CHARACTER OF CAPITALISTIC SOCIAL FORM, AS A PRODUCT OF THE CONTRADICTORY STRUCTURE OF CAPITALISTIC INDIVIDUALITY - IN ITS PROMISE (FREEDOM AS ‘SELF-POSSESSING’ SUBJECT OF EXCHANGE RELATIONS QUA ‘CONSUMER') AND REALITY (LACK OF FREEDOM AS ‘SELF-POSSESSOR’ OF EXCHANGE RELATIONS - THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE TO ITS INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS)?

IT CANNOT BE DENIED THAT THE UNIVERSITY IS A PLACE OF REFUGE, AND IT CANNOT BE ACCEPTED THAT THE UNIVERSITY IS A PLACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

CONCEPTUAL FORMALISMS? NEO-FORMALISM IN ANGLOPHONE CONCEPTUAL ART; DISTINGUISHING HISTORICIST, MIMETIC NEO-CONCEPTUALISMS OF THE 1990s AND EARLY 2000s (GAVIN TURK, MARTIN CREED, JONATHAN MONK) FROM THE MOST GENERAL POSTCONCEPTUAL CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART