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A PRIOR MAGAZINE

is a series of publications on contemporary art. The magazine is published by vzw Mark and the University College Ghent, in English and distributed all over the world in specialized art bookstores and museums.

  • #19

    • editorial
      Ten Years
      Els Roelandt
  • Beaufort03

    • redactioneel
      Van Emile Verhaeren tot Lawrence Weiner
      Els Roelandt
  • #18

    • editorial
      Whereof One Can Speak
      Monika Szewczyk, Anders Kreuger, Els Roelandt
    • the sessions _ audio
  • #17

    • A Gathering, twice over
      Charles Esche
      → Berlin Biennale 5 history / historiography Modernity Monuments
    • Differentiated Neighborhoods of New Belgrade
      Zoran Eric
      → community history / historiography Life! Modernity Monuments Urbanism
    • Editorial
      Poor, Surreal or Shadowless, Re-runs and Returns
      Els Roelandt _ Dieter Roelstraete
      → Berlin Biennale 5 history / historiography Thingness
    • Kids, Migrants and the Truth of Our Society
      On Alexander Vaindorf's _Detour. One Particular Sunday_
      Alexander Vaindorf and Boris Buden
      → community identity Life! Urbanism
    • Monuments
      Mihnea Mircan
      → community history / historiography Monuments Thingness Urbanism
    • Nationalgalerie
      Jörg Franzbecker with Martin Beck
      → identity Modernity Thingness
    • Some histories and a brief reflection on the work of Kristina Norman
      Andrea Wiarda
      → Berlin Biennale 5 film history / historiography intercultural communication Monuments
    • Waiting Time
      What, How and for Whom (WHW)
      → Berlin Biennale 5 history / historiography Thingness Urbanism
  • On Paper II

    • Ready to Hand -- Print Series
      Ahmet Öğüt , Kristina Norman, Manon de Boer, Susanne Kriemann, Cezary Bodzianowski and Paulina Olowska
      → Berlin Biennale 5 On Paper
  • #16

    • "I can't just be a machine"
      On the work of Anouk De Clercq
      Maaike Lauwaert
      → collaboration film new media Sound
    • correspondence
      Frederik De Preester & Anouk De Clercq
      → collaboration
    • Devising and Directing
      Collaborative Process in Theatre
      Andrea Wiarda & Lou Cope
      → collaboration theatre
    • Editorial
      Monika Szewczyk _ Andrea Wiarda
      → collaboration identity new media Sound
    • Episode 3
      Analysis of a Film Process in Three Conversations
      Els Roelandt
      → film history / historiography identity intercultural communication
    • Something I'm Dying to Tell You, Lyn
      Jalal Toufic
      → dead intercultural communication
    • The Art of ~scaping
      Echoes for Anouk De Clercq
      Pieter Van Bogaert
      → environment new media Sound
    • The Continental Unconscious
      Anders Kreuger
      → community history / historiography intercultural communication Life!
    • The Second Self: A Hostage of Cultural Memory
      Charles Green & Anthony Gardner
      → collaboration dead history / historiography Modernity
    • When the Body Speaks
      On the work of Susan Philipsz
      Peio Aguirre
      → environment film Sound
  • #15

    • About Transport of One Sort or Another
      Dieter Roelstraete talks to Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle about the Martha Rosler Library
      Dieter Roelstraete, Martha Rosler, Anton Vidokle
      → Documenta Life! Urbanism
    • Alan Sekula: The Documenta 12 Project (and Beyond)
      Hilde Van Gelder
      → blank Documenta Life! Monuments photography
    • COMMONism
      Rudi Laermans
      → (mass) culture Documenta Life!
    • Documentary Uncertainty
      Hito Steyerl
      → (mass) culture Documenta Life! new media
    • Editorial
      A State of Uncertainty
      Andrea Wiarda _ Monika Szewczyk
      → Documenta Life!
    • Revealing the Indescribable
      Three Reflections and an Observation
      Kersten Geers
      → Documenta Life!
    • The Discovery of the World
      Jeroen Boomgaard
      → Documenta Life! sculpture Thingness
    • The Open Art of Valérie Mannaerts
      Monika Szewczyk
      → blank Documenta Life! sculpture Thingness
    • Wanda...
      Dirk Lauwaert
      → Documenta film Life! Modernity
    • What is the place of art in all this?
      A conversation with Maria Hlavajova, Utrecht 16 February 2007
      Andrea Wiarda
      → (mass) culture art / institution history / historiography Life!
    • Zones of Indifference
      The World in a "State of Exception": On the Relations of "Populism", "Public Sphere" and "Terrorism"
      Marius Babias
      → (mass) culture community identity Life! Urbanism
  • #14

    • Editorial
      The Fracas of Antiquities and Modernities
      Dieter Roelstraete _ Els Roelandt
      → Documenta Modernity
    • From Clairvoyance to Clear-Sightedness?
      My Own Prussian History
      Anders Kreuger
      → history / historiography Modernity Urbanism
    • I Am Alive and You Are Dead
      The Production of Mistakes as an Interpretative Methodology
      François Piron
      → Documenta Modernity Urbanism
    • Larissa Harris in Conversation with Deimantas Narkevicius
      → film history / historiography Modernity
    • Melting Thoughts Frozen in Words
      Claudia Sinnig
      → history / historiography Modernity
    • Suspended Vocation
      Jean-Pierre Rehm
      → film history / historiography Modernity
    • The Königsberg Conjecture
      A Philosophical Flânerie
      Dieter Roelstraete
      → history / historiography Modernity
    • The Practical Surrealism of Power
      talking some things into being and making other things vanish while you talk about something completely different
      Jan Verwoert on the work of Sven Augustijnen
      → history / historiography Modernity
  • x02

    • for current in 2007
      Sturtevant
      → art / institution Documenta history / historiography Modernity
    • in 2007 for 2022
      Heman Chong
      → art / institution Documenta history / historiography Modernity
    • in 2043 for 2047
      Anders Kreuger
      → art / institution Documenta history / historiography Modernity
    • in present for last
      D. Ross
      → art / institution Documenta history / historiography Modernity
    • invite/introduction
      How William Blake saved Documenta
      Raimundas Malasauskas
      → (mass) culture Documenta history / historiography Modernity
  • #13

    • A conversation with Brian Holmes
      Rudi Laermans
      → (mass) culture art / institution community globalisation new media
    • Bartleby
      or how to materialize your doubt and dematerialize the collection's permanence —Aneta Szylak and Hiwa K. speak with Beatrice Josse and Helene Guinin of Frac Lorraine
      Aneta Szylak, Hiwa K. , Beatrice Josse and Helene Guinin
      → art / institution
    • Editorial
      Els Roelandt _ Dieter Roelstraete
    • Raimundas Malašauskas talks to Donelle Woodford
      → collaboration sculpture
    • Re-Dematerialisation: things that disappear, then reappear again
      Dieter Roelstraete ponders the work of Joe Scanlan
      Dieter Roelstraete
      → art / institution sculpture Thingness
    • The Fantasy of Paulina Olowska
      Monika Szewczyk
    • The Process of Creative Destruction in Action
      artist's project
      Joseph Schumpeter & Joe Scanlan
      → (mass) culture art / institution globalisation Modernity
    • The Unspeakable Compromise of the Economic Work of Art[1]
      Phillip Van Den Bossche
      → art / institution sculpture Thingness
    • When Somebody gets the job because they know the boss
      (fragment)
      Simon Thompson & Lucy McKenzie
      → (mass) culture art / institution Urbanism
  • x01

    • Editorial
      Making Sense in the City
      Lisa Dikomitis, Chia Longman and An van. Dienderen
      → (mass) culture community globalisation identity Modernity Urbanism
  • #12

    • Death drives, difference, nothingness
      Dieter Roelstraete
    • Isaac and Ishmael: Tom Morton on Erik van Lieshout
      Tom Morton
      → (mass) culture
    • On Curatorial Hypothesis
      Annie Fletcher and Andrea Wiarda
      → collaboration
  • #11

    • Our word is our bond
      Maxine Kopsa
    • Phillip van den Bossche talks to Ger van Elk about old and new work
      Edited by Andrea Wiarda
      Phillip van den Bossche, Ger van Elk, Andrea Wiarda
    • The sacrificial lamb
      Dieter Roelstraete
  • #10

    • Correspondences
      Jean Torrent
      → history / historiography identity photography
    • Editorial
      Els Roelandt
    • Elucidatio tristitiae (part 1)
      Daniel Franco
    • Reading as a Form of Writing
      On the Texts in the Work of Ana Torfs
      Dirk Lauwaert
      → history / historiography photography
    • The blind singer and the absent composer
      On music and interdisciplinarianism in two works by Ana Torfs
      Dirk Pültau
      → film identity music photography Sound theatre
  • #09

    • The world revised
      Philippe Pirotte
    • Two conversations with Jimmie Durham
      Rudi Laermans
  • #06

    • Editorial
      Art on the Edge
      Els Roelandt

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Artists
  • Sven 't Jolle
  • Eija-Liisa Ahtila
  • Herman Asselberghs
  • Michel Assenmaker
  • Sven Augustijnen
  • Orla Barry
  • Yael Bartana
  • Lene Berg
  • Cezary Bodzianowski
  • Cathrin Boer
  • Michaël Borremans
  • Dirk Braeckman
  • Etienne Bruneel
  • Matthew Buckingham
  • Andrea Bunte
  • Marie José Burki
  • Dredge Byung'Chu Kång
  • Wim Catrysse
  • Delphine Charrueau
  • Chiko & Toko
  • Chto Delat
  • David Claerbout
  • Wim Cuyvers
  • Ann Daems
  • Hassan Darsi
  • Manon De Boer
  • Goele De Bruyn
  • Anouk De Clercq
  • Danny De Vos
  • Koenraad Dedobbeleer
  • Monsieur Delmotte
  • Wim Delvoye
  • Jean-Paul Deridder
  • Els Dietvorst
  • Nico Dockx
  • Peter Downsborough
  • Jimmie Durham
  • Dora Garcia
  • Vincent Geyskens
  • Tina Gillen
  • Gauthier Hubert
  • Maryam Jafri
  • Ann Veronica Janssen
  • Hiwa K.
  • Jan Kempenaers
  • Fransje Killaars
  • Ragnar Kjartansson
  • Daniel Knorr
  • Joachim Koester
  • Aglaia Konrad
  • Susanne Kriemann
  • Norman Kristina
  • Gabriel Kuri
  • Franciska Lambrechts
  • David Maljkovic
  • Valérie Mannaerts
  • Renzo Martens
  • Vincent Meessen
  • Nathaniel Mellors
  • Deimantas Narkevicius
  • Kristina Norman
  • Ahmet Öğüt
  • Paulina Olowska
  • Susan Philipsz
  • Oda Projesi
  • Daniël Robberechts
  • Paul Robbrecht & Hilde Daem
  • Gert Robijns
  • Julian Rosefeldt
  • Martha Rosler
  • Mira Sanders
  • Yorgos Sapountzis
  • Joe Scanlan
  • Katerina Šedá
  • Alan Sekula
  • Steven Shearer
  • Meg Stuart
  • Fiona Tan
  • Hoang Tan Nguyen
  • Harald Thys
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Ana Torfs
  • Alexander Vaindorf
  • Ger Van Elk
  • Daan Van Golden
  • Erik Van Lieshout
  • Wendelien Van Oldenborgh
  • Els Vanden Meersch
  • Richard Venlet
  • Jan Vercruysse
  • Peter Verhelst
  • Anton Vidokle
  • Maria Clara Villa-Lobos
  • Barbara Visser
  • Ulla von Brandenburg
  • Carl Michael Von Hausswolff
  • Marthe Wéry
  • T.J. Wilcox
  • Ian Wilson
  • Donelle Woolford
  • Darius Ziuria
  • Honoré ð'o
  • Honoré ð'O


Topics
  • (mass) culture
  • Appropriation and Sampling
  • Art / Integration
  • art / institution
  • Berlin Biennale 5
  • blank
  • collaboration
  • community
  • dead
  • Debord
  • Documenta
  • education
  • environment
  • film
  • globalisation
  • history / historiography
  • identity
  • intercultural communication
  • Life!
  • Modernity
  • Monuments
  • music
  • new media
  • On Paper
  • photography
  • sculpture
  • Sound
  • theatre
  • thing
  • Thingness
  • Urbanism
Authors
  • Mai Abu ElDahab
  • Peio Aguirre
  • Karel Arnaut
  • the audiences
  • Marius Babias
  • Barbara Baert
  • Jeebesh Bagchi
  • Martin Beck
  • Franciska Benitez
  • Carel Blotkamp
  • Gunter Bombaerts
  • Jeroen Boomgaard
  • Guy Bovijn
  • Koen Brams
  • Boris Buden
  • Edwin Carels
  • Benny Carlé
  • Muriel Carron
  • Véronique Clette
  • Kate Coleman
  • raqs media collective
  • Lou Cope
  • Amélie Daems
  • Thierry De Duve
  • Koen De Munter
  • Josse De Pauw
  • Frederik De Preester
  • Sonia Dermience
  • Lisa Dikomitis
  • Edith Doove
  • Caroline Eggel
  • Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck
  • Zoran Eric
  • Charles Esche
  • Daniel Faust
  • Annie Fletcher
  • Daniel Franco
  • Jörg Franzbecker
  • Anthony Gardner
  • Kersten Geers
  • Jordi Geirlant
  • Ine Gevers
  • Denis Gielen
  • Pascal Gielen
  • Marc Glöde
  • Charles Green
  • Katerina Gregos
  • Helene Guenin
  • Egon Hanfstingl
  • Larissa Harris
  • Annick & Anton Herbert
  • Michael Hirsch
  • Maria Hlavajova
  • Brian Holmes
  • Molly Hurley-Depret
  • Paul Ilegems
  • Jon Ippolito
  • Steven Jacobs
  • Am Johal
  • Beatrice Josse
  • Steven Kaplan
  • Maxine Kopsa
  • Vasif Kortun
  • Anders Kreuger
  • Andres Kurg
  • Gabriel Kuri
  • Miwon Kwon
  • Katrien Laenen
  • Rudi Laermans
  • Jacinto Lageira
  • Dirk Lauwaert
  • Maaike Lauwaert
  • Dieter Lesage
  • Richard Leydier
  • Maria Lind
  • Chia Longman
  • Sven Lütticken
  • Raimundas Malasauskas
  • Valérie Mannaerts
  • Sis Matthé
  • Lucy McKenzie
  • Armin Medosch
  • Mihnea Mircan
  • Tom Morton
  • Monica Narula
  • Willem-Jan Neutelings
  • Hadley Nunes
  • Paul Ostrow
  • Johan Pas
  • Jeroen Peeters
  • Marti Peran
  • Rik Pinxten
  • François Piron
  • Philippe Pirotte
  • Dirk Pültau
  • Katrien Pype
  • Simon Rees
  • Jean-Pierre Rehm
  • Jan Ritsema
  • Els Roelandt
  • Dieter Roelstraete
  • Martha Rosler
  • Joe Scanlan
  • Christian Schoen
  • Joseph Schumpeter
  • Helena Sidiropoulos
  • Claudia Sinnig
  • Cherry Smyth
  • Mårten Spångberg
  • Ive Stevenheydens
  • Maxwell Stevens
  • Hito Steyerl
  • Monika Szewczyk
  • Aneta Szylak
  • Koen Tachelet
  • Simon Thompson
  • Jean Torrent
  • Jalal Toufic
  • Sandra Trienekens
  • Catrinel Turcanu
  • Pieter Van Bogaert
  • Oscar Van Den Boogaard
  • Phillip Van Den Bossche
  • Hilde Van Gelder
  • Koen Van Synghel
  • An Van. Dienderen
  • Koen Vanaeken
  • Frank Vande Veire
  • Dries Vande Velde
  • Andy Vandevyvere
  • Jeroen Versteele
  • Jan Verwoert
  • Jan Verwoert
  • Lawrence Weiner
  • What, How and for Whom/WHW
  • Andrea Wiarda
  • Louwrien Wijers
  • Eva Wittocx
  • Thomas Wulffen
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