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LabforCulture.org and documenta 12 magazines collaborated for the first time to present two workshops during the hundred days of documenta. Read and comment on blog entries from the participants of these week-long workshops in July and August 2007. Download podcasts of the lunch lectures. Participate in debate with leading editors, writers and thinkers. Share your views.

Blogging from the workshops

Forget the avant-garde and take another flight tomorrow !
by Jelena Vesic “Where is the avant-garde? I don’t see it, point it out to me; .... I see no radical convergence between art, technology and …
17.08.2008 Closed Discussion-Tribunal Transcript
By Jelena Vesic and David Riff The following is a transcript of the third and penultimate discussion of “The Position of the Speaker” …
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Podcast from the documenta 12 lunch lectures

Sunday, 19 August: Combatant Status Review Tribunals

Saturday, 18 August: The position of the speaker

Thursday, 16 August: 9 Scripts from a Nation at War

Tuesday, 14 August: The How-To of Bare Life: A Story of O.

Saturday, 21 July: Publishing the Public: Contextualising Locality

Thursday, 19 July: Processual Aesthetics - Processual Editing: Net-Working

Tuesday, 17 July: How to survive the Paper Industry

All lunch lectures for the whole duration of the documenta are recorded by Hessischer Rundfunk and are provided on the website of HR.


Credits

LabforCulture.org would like to thank Georg Schöllhammer, Maria Derntl, Cordula Daus and the entire documenta 12 magazines team for their collaboration, as well as Nat Muller, Alessandro Ludovico and Simon Sheikh for their contributions in their respective workshops.

For more information on documenta 12 and documenta 12 magazines, please go to: http://www.documenta12.de/

Graphic design documenta 12
Martha Stutteregger
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Links + documents

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'The Position of the Speaker' Workshop Week

The theme for this workshop will be the constructions and delimitation of a specific figure; the speaking subject. How does …

Organisation
Arteleku
A contemporary art centre which enjoys significant autonomy and international visibility, depite being dependent on the County Council of Guipuzcoa. …
Publication
Bare life, subject, exposure, recuperation: ‘bare life’ on -empyre- soft-skinned space
By Christina McPhee What follows is a short essay describing the structure and content of our discussion on the online list serv, -empyre- …
Publication
Zehar/documenta magazines 12
Text of the presentation given on July 19, 2007 at documenta 12 in the context of the Processual Aesthetics - Processual Editing: Net-Working panel …
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