Cultures of Critique

As part of the K21 Encounters, Julia Voss and Anna Kipke presented the volume "Why Art Criticism?" published by Hatje Cantz in 2022.

The reader does pioneering work by bringing together and commenting on a wide variety of art critical voices from the present and the past. The diversity of arguments, modes of presentation, and criteria challenges the discussion of how art criticism can be understood and written under conditions of globalization.

The event series K21 Encounters is dedicated to current questions about the significance of contemporary art for the future of our society. After a period of social distancing and digital programs, the focus is on the analog, shared conversation on site. With talks, screenings, concerts, readings and performances, artists and theorists present their latest works; afterwards, there is space for open discussions. The events take place at monthly intervals in the Salon21 of the K21.

Der von Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah und Lotte Warnsholdt herausgegebene Band „Critique and the Digital“ (Diaphanes, 2020) hat eine positive Besprechung in „Theory, Culture & Society“ erhalten. Der Rezensent Bryan Norton (University of Pennsylvania / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) fasst seinen Lektüreeindruck folgendermaßen zusammen: „Critique and the Digital provides an impressive overview of both the theoretical and practical stakes of coming to terms with the digital in its increasingly ubiquitous forms.” Die vollständige Rezension können Sie hier nachlesen: 

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Die Nachricht vom Tod Christoph Jammes, der am 2. Mai verstorben ist, hat uns tief getroffen. Mit ihm verlieren wir einen leidenschaftlich engagierten Philosophen, der unsere Diskussionen kritischer Theorien und Praktiken mit seinen historisch-systematisch orientierten Beiträgen bereichert hat.

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