Sven Lütticken: Texts and Other Projects: March 2013

Getting there

This isn't the final cover; the subtitle has changed in the meantime. We're in the proofing stage right now. Getting there one comma at a time. Design by Surface.

Texte zur Kunst 89: Mike and Oskar

Issue no. 89 of Texte zur Kunst (March 2013) is largely dedicated to Mike Kelley. It also contains my review of the Oskar Fischinger retrospective at the EYE in Amsterdam, "Moving in Circles."

I argue that whereas the exhibition desperately wants to demonstrate that Fischinger was a major artist, a more fruitful approach would be to accept and explore his minor status. As Branden Joseph puts it, “If ‘minor’ artists retain a place within major history […] it is on account of their relation to or proximity to the movements and categories engendered by major history and by the unceasing pressure that they exact on them. […] Appearing on the fringes of major movements or styles, their relation to them is one of deterritorialization, opening these categories up to heterological connections and interactions.” Such an exploration of Fischinger's work would have resulted in a completely different, and potentially much richer, exhibition.

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