e-flux Journal #0
<p>Historically, more than any single institution, art publications have been primary sites for discourse surrounding the artistic field. And yet most recently, the discourse has seemingly moved elsewhere—away from the formal vocabulary used to explain art production, away from traditional art capitals, and away from the printed page. At times, new discursive practices even replace traditional forms of art production. Given the current climate of disciplinary reconfiguration and geographic dispersal, it has become apparent that the urgent task has now become to engage the new intellectual territories in a way that can revitalize the critical vocabulary of contemporary art. We see a fresh approach to the function of an art journal to be perhaps the most productive way of doing this.</p> <p>With this first, inaugural issue of <em>e-flux journal</em>, we begin something of an experiment in developing both a discursive space and a site for actual art production, in which writers, artists, and thinkers are invited to write on topics of their choosing. While it is our hope that the contributions included here can begin to give a sense of how varied the concerns and urgencies being engaged today are, we also expect that certain consistencies and overarching issues will emerge through them, and help us shape the forthcoming issues of the journal…</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><strong>Take a Deep Breath</strong><br /> Omer Fast</p> <p><strong>The Obligation to Self-Design</strong><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><strong>Los Angeles: The Invention of Public Weather</strong><br /> Bilal Khbeiz</p> <p><strong>Conditioned Contemporaneity (Reartikulacija, Part 1 of 3)</strong><br /> Sebastjan Leban</p> <p><strong>New Territories in Acre and Why They Matter</strong><br /> Marjetica Potrč</p> <p><strong>Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic</strong><br /> Raqs Media Collective</p> <p><strong>Turning</strong><br /> Irit Rogoff</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Omer Fast, Boris Groys, Bilal Khbeiz, Sebastjan Leban, Marjetica Potrč, Raqs Media Collective, Irit Rogoff
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625