editorial
Els Roelandt
The Condition of Neoliberalism
Rudi Laermans
A Letter from Sassnitz, MV
Dieter Roelstraete
OLIVIA PLENDER
(a project based on Gustave Flaubert’s novel Bouvard et Pécuchet)
Chapter I: Meeting, friendship, Bouvard’s inheritance
introduction—Olivia Plender
Chapter II: Agriculture, landscape gardening, food preservation
Franz Fischler, I Presume—Goldin+Senneby
Chapter III: Chemistry, anatomy, medicine, geology
Financialization—Neil Cummings
Chapter IV: Archeology, architecture, history, museology, classification, the institution
A Catalogue of Objects in the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street—Pablo Bronstein
Chapter V: Literature, drama, performance, grammar, aesthetics
Olivia Plender, Historical Facts Are as Mythic as Literary Constructs—Vanessa Desclaux
Enfant Terrible Ken Russell in conversation with Olivia Plender
‘Monitor’ A Script by Olivia Plender
Chapter VI: Politics: 1848
‘Advertisements for an Absurdist Play on the Theme of England and Iceland being at War’—Olivia Plender
Prairial, Year 215—Melanie Gilligan
Capital Drive—Unnar Örn
Chapter VII: Love
‘Mary Richardson’—Olivia Plender
‘Nutmegs’—Olivia Plender
Chapter VIII: Gymnastics, occultism, theology, philosophy, suicide
End Days on the Astral Plane—Marina Vishmidt
Olivia Plender in conversation with British sociologist Dr John Walliss
‘Bring Back Robin Hood’—A Script by Olivia Plender
Chapter IX: Religion
There is No There, There—Runo Lagomarsino
Chapter X: Education, music, urban planning, arguments with everyone around them
Games of Exception—Angus Cameron
Chapter XI: Their copy
‘Thames Wale’—Olivia Plender
Dream Log—Unnar Örn and Olivia Plender
KARA WALKER
Artist’s Project
Spooked—Robert Storr
STEFAAN DHEEDENE
Artist’s Project
Ghost Shift—Frank Maes
EUROPEAN KUNSTHALLE
European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz
