Sven Lütticken: Texts and Other Projects: Value and Collaboration

Value and Collaboration

The first part of Texte zur Kunst no. 88 (December 2012) is dedicated to "the question of value," and it looks very promising - with contributions by Diedrich Diederichsen, Isabelle Graw, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, and Kerstin Stakemeier and Marina Vishmidt.

My review of Witte de With's show Surplus Authors, which problematizes the exhibition in order to examines the value(s) of collaboration in contemporary cultural production, should connect quite well with this thematic section. Because I'm a sucker for Michael Fried détournements, the review is titled "Why Collaboration Matters in Art and Elsewhere as Never Before."

Image: Falke Pisano and Ana Roldán, Dynamo, 2008-2012.

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