Out now! Art Always Has Its Consequences
book
The book is a result and a recapitulation of the project Art Always Has Its Consequences, which was a two-year collaborative platform (2008-2010) supported by the European Union organised by new media center_kuda.org (Novi Sad), tranzit. hu (Budapest), Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź) and What, How & for Whom / WHW (Zagreb). The project explored practices through which art reaches its audience and their significance for broader relations between art and society, focusing on four thematic strands: the history of exhibitions, artists’ texts, conceptual design, typography, and institutional archives. The title, taken from a text by artist Mladen Stilinović entitled Footwriting (1984), suggests investigation in terms of the consequences for art in relation to reality, but also in terms of intrinsic artistic procedures by which art always ‘limits’ itself to being art.
The first chapter of the book contains of a chronology of the project events and exhibitions of the past two years. The second chapter is a reader of essays written or selected for the book around the issue of the former East by Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Renata Salecl, Boris Buden, Ozren Popovac, Maciej Gdula, Gal Kirn, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Elena Filipovic, interviews and the documentation of the closing exhibition of the project, “Art Always Has Its Consequences” organized in Zagreb in May 2010. The third section is a documentation of the closing exhibition in Zagreb.
New Media Center_kuda.org, founded in 2001, is an independent cultural organisation based in Novi Sad, Serbia. It brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public to research into new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice, new technologies and social issues.
Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, one of the most remarkable collections of twentieth and twenty-first century art in Europe, was initiated by artists in 1931 and results from a joint effort to act beyond and against artistic and other boundaries. Nowadays it operates in two buildings, and besides exhibitions it houses international research projects, workshops, conferences.
Hungarian organisation tranzit. hu, as a member of a network of organisations (tranzit.org), is an independent association initiating projects in different formats and fields such as education, research, publishing and exhibitions. Its activities are defined by the belief that art produces an excess of knowledge, which can be recycled and used in broader social discourse.
What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Its members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. WHW organises a range of production, exhibition and publishing projects and has been running Gallery Nova in Zagreb since 2003.
The catalogue is available in the tranzit. hu office.
Contact: Agnes Szanyi
office@tranzitinfo.hu
+36305702034
This publication is part of the project Art Always Has Its Consequences supported by
the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Union.
