Afterall, These Years (2017-2018): A Winter of Performance and Collective Action

14th October 2021UncategorizedAfterall, Anca Rujoiu, Charles Esche, Charles Stankievech, Chto Delat, Group Material, Janet Lilo, Jonas Staal, Kader Attia, Lana Lopesi, Lee Wen, Lorraine O'Grady, Min Thein Sung, Mujeres Creando, Raoul Peck, Ute Meta BauerMinus Plato

Afterall Journal 46

Contents

Foreword– Anca Rujoiu

Contextual Essays
- Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Premises for Burmese Contemporary Art with Po Po, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu and Min Thein Sung– Yin Ker

Min Thein Sung, Another Realm: Horses, 2015, linen, aluminum, copper wire, rope, dimensions variable. Installation view, ‘8¹² Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8)’, Brisbane. Collection of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Photograph: Min Thein Sung. Courtesy the artist

Cultural Marxists Like Us– Sven Lütticken

Jonas Staal, stills from Steve Bannon’s film Generation Zero, 2010. Installation view, ‘Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective’, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2018. Image: Remco van Bladel and Jonas Staal. Courtesy Jonas Staal and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Beyond Essentialism: Contemporary Moana Art from Aotearoa New Zealand– Lana Lopesi

Janet Lilo, Right of Way, 2013. Installation view, Artspace, 5th Auckland Triennial. Courtesy the artist

Artists
- Lee Wen
  - Lee Wen: Performing Yellow– Alice Ming Wai Jim

Lee Wen, Dreamboat, 1998, performance, Werkleitz Biennale, Tornitz and Werkleitz. Photograph: Andrew Costas Otero. Courtesy the artist

Line Form Colour Action– Võ Hồng Chương-Đài

Lee Wen, Anthropometry Revision: Yellow Period (After Yves Klein) #2, 2008, performance, SooBin Art Int’l UBI Warehouse, Singapore. Courtesy the artist

Mujeres Creando insert: La creatividad es un instrumento de lucha y el cambio social un hecho creativo (Creativity Is an Instrument of Struggle, and Social Change a Creative Act)

Mujeres Creando
- - To the Last Consequences: Mujeres Creando in Conversation with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz and Pablo Lafuente– Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz & Pablo Lafuente

Mujeres Creando, Espacio para abortar (Space for Abortion), 2014. Installation view, ‘31⁸ Bienal de São Paulo’, 2014. Copyright: Leo Eloy and Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. Courtesy Mujeres Creando and Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Chto Delat
- - The End of the Line: Historicity, Possibility and Perestroika– Simon Sheikh

Group Material, A Chronicle of US Intervention in Central and Latin America, 1984. Installation view, ‘For Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America’, MoMA PS1, New York, 1984. Photograph: Dorothy Zeidman. Courtesy the artist and Four Corners Books, London

The Grammar of Collectivity as Experimented by Chto Delat– Irmgard Emmelhainz

Chto Delat, #17, The New Dead End Street. Summer School of Orientation in Zapatism, 2017.
© Chto Delat. Courtesy the artists and KOW, Berlin

Kader Attia
- - Kader Attia: Voices of Resistance– Giovanna Zapperi

Kader Attia, Arab Spring, 2015, installation and performance, 16 broken museum showcases, bricks, stones. Installation view, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, 2015. Photograph: Oak Taylor-Smith. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing/Les Moulins/Habana

Time Torn– Hannah Gregory

Kader Attia, Repaired Broken Mirror, 2013, sculpture, mirror, wire. Installation view, ‘Repairing the Invisible’, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2017. Photograph: Dirk Pauwels. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne

Events, Works, Exhibitons
- The Art World Has Lost Its Mind: Lorraine O’Grady and the Birth of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire– Bridget R. Cooks

Lorraine O’Grady, Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire removes the cape and puts on her gloves), 1980–83/2009, silver gelatin print, 23.83 × 17.78cm. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York

Recasting History: The Transformative Cinema of Steve McQueen and Raoul Peck– Karen Alexander

Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro, 2017, film, 1h 35min. Courtesy the artist and Altitude Film Distribution, London

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