e-flux Journal #3

<p>These days, it is fairly clear that we consider art to be a trans-disciplinary field in a position to nurture other disciplines, and to be nurtured by these other disciplines in turn. As promising as this might sound, the terms for this exchange become significant, because it remains unclear what exactly we presume art to offer to the world. When hard pressed, we usually prefer not to prequalify the nature of artistic contribution at all, because in fact artists reserve the right to offer nothing other than doing work on their own terms. This requires a delicate balance, and it becomes important to ask: how is it possible to engage other fields while still retaining the semi-autonomy that delineates the artistic field in the first place?…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Art and Literacy</b><br /> Luis Camnitzer</p> <p><b>Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three? Part 2 of 2: The Experimental Factory</b><br /> Liam Gillick</p> <p><b>Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 1: A Conversation with Avery Gordon</b><br /> Natascha Sadr Haghighian</p> <p><b>Art in the Knowledge-based Polis</b><br /> Tom Holert</p> <p><b>Gaza–Beirut–Tel Aviv: In Praise of Selfishness and Opportunism</b><br /> Bilal Khbeiz</p> <p><b>Positively White Cube Revisited</b><br /> Simon Sheikh</p> <p><b>Art of Conversation, Part I</b><br /> Monika Szewczyk</p>