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Multitudes-Icônes LaunchedMultitudes-Icônes Launched Multitudes is pleased to announce the inauguration of its new website, Multitudes-Icônes, which is dedicated to contemporary art Multitudes-Icônes was launched during a workshop organized by Multitudes at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany (Documenta Halle, June 25-28, 2007). The site brings together three parallel projects: Multitude’s counter-project in response to the invitation to participate in Documenta 12; an artist residence project in which artists have been invited to engage with the site in order to produce a specific project; and, finally, archives of texts and Icônes portfolios (projects about and by artists) published in the journal since its inception in March 2000. Multitudes was asked by the Documenta 12 organizers to respond to the exhibition’s three questions/themes (“Is modernity our antiquity?“; “What is Bare Life?“; and “What is to be done?“). The journal’s answer was to create a counter-project on Multitudes-Icônes called Critical and Clinical Documentation. On the site, the three questions were reformulated (that is, appropriated and détourned) and addressed to artists in a provocative way. Artists were asked to situate their work in relation to Documenta 12’s themes but also in relation to their participation or non-participation in the exhibition. The ensemble of responses—visual, verbal, sonorous—constitute alternative, multiple, and ironic points of view, or “critical and clinical” perspectives, regarding the exhibition’s themes and Documenta itself. The website’s organization of the artists’ responses provides an open framework, allowing users to articulate relations between replies, creating hybrid interventions, and transforming each user into a curator-artist of another, virtual-real Documenta.For its inauguration, the Residence space is linked to Critical and Clinical Documentation and presents three projects in response to Documenta’s themes. In a direct or indirect manner, each project interrogates the themes’ significance. Here, John Beech, Birgit Jürgenssen, and the Société Réaliste critically probe the notions of modernity, bare life, and education. Multitudes is a political, philosophical, and cultural journal in which the transversal objective is to intervene within the field of intellectual and artistic production and to make the question of alternative processes of subjectivation and collective individuation central to this field. Its goal is to experiment with new conditions of political enunciation and agency while sketching out problematics that cut across the fields of the political economy, philosophy, artistic practice, and the emergent cultures of cyber-freedom. Multitudes is one of the first French-language journals to publish its editions, available for free, on the Internet. The archive of published articles can be consulted at: http://multitudes.samizdat.net/ Multitude’s three Documenta 12 questions détourned and addressed to artists: Is modernity (y)our aftermath? Is bare life your apocalyptic political dimension? What is to be done after the D12 Bildung programme? Editorial conception: Eric Alliez, Giovanna Zapperi |
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