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By way of us

Magazine

12 September 2011

By way of us

First hand. When a series of artistic proposals look for specific people as receivers it seems logical to respond with a personal, subjective and particular point of view. Forgetting universalism, contemporary art approaches specific people with forms of contact that seek to please or displease, in equal measure. And what is the role of criticism? To explain pieces that can’t be seen? To enter pieces through the eyes of another? To enter the world of fiction?

Faced with a series of works which many people won’t be able to access, at A*DESK we want to investigate critical formats, the frontier between critical narration and distanced analysis. That is if the first can be separated from the second.

In this issue of A*Magazine we present three critiques written in the first person, three narrations about three pieces, three works where the passing of time and its activation is important. Frederic Montornés writes about “Te oímos beber” (We hear you drinking) by Alex Reynolds, Lorena Muñoz-Alonso about the new proposal by Ryan Gander, commissioned by Artangel, and Marti Manen about “Cooking Catastrophes” by Eva Meyer-Keller and Sybille Müller.

A*DESK is a critical platform focused on publishing, training, experimentation, communication and dissemination in relation to contemporary culture and art, which is defined by transversality. The starting point is contemporary art, because that is where we come from and this awareness allows us to go much further, to incorporate other disciplines and forms of thought in order debate issues that are relevant and urgent for understanding our present.

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