Afterall, These Years (2017-2018): An Autumn of Ethno-Aesthetics and Institutions

14th October 2021The Library of the Future, UncategorizedAfterall, Candice Hopkins, Charles Esche, Charles Stankievech, Hans Ragner Mathisen, Joar Nango, Maria Theresa Alves, Pia Arke, Qui Zhijie, Rustam Khalfin, Ute Meta Bauer, Victor Burgin, Wanda NanibushMinus Plato

Afterall Journal 44

Contents

Foreword– Candice Hopkins

Contextual Essays
- The Delicate Difference Between ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World’– Carola Grahn

Joar Nango, European Everything, 2017, installation and performance, dimensions variable, detail. Installation view, documenta 14, Glass Pavilions on Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, Kassel. Photograph: Fred Dott. Courtesy Fred Dott and documenta 14

Early Contemporary Art in Post-Soviet Mongolia: Where is the Green Horse Galloping Now?– Tsendpurev Tsegmid

Tsatsralt Sereeter, Mongolian Democratic Revolution Protests: 10 Dec 1989, 1989, black-and-white photograph, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist

A Conversation between Manuel Borja-Villel and Marcelo Expósito– Manuel Borja-Villel & Marcelo Expósito

Installation view, ‘Öyvind Fahlström’, 2000–01, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Photograph: Rocco Ricci. Courtesy MACBA

Artists
- Qiu Zhijie

Qui Zhijie, Man With destiny – The Maid Servant, 2016, ink on paper glued on canvas, 146 x 183cm. From the series ‘All Living Things’. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimiganano, San Gimiganano/Beijing/Les Moulins/Habana

The Lazy Project, In Honour of the Rider, The Flying White, Base Level: The Clay Project

The plan of the project from the inside pages of the brochure produced in 1999 by LOOK gallery for ‘Nulevoi Uroven’. Glinyanyi Proekt (Base Level: The Clay Project). Photograph: Alexander Malgazhdarov. Courtesy the Astral Nomads Digital Archive, Almaty

Pia Arke
- Ethno-Aesthetics

Pia Arke, Borte med blæsten (Gone with the Wind), 1997, colour photograph, 46.4 × 64.1cm. Photograph: Peter Baastrup. Courtesy the Estate of Pia Arke, Copenhagen

On Pia Arke– Stefan Jonsson

Pia Arke next to her pinhole camera facing Nuugaarsuk Point outside of Narsaq, 1990. Courtesy Søren Arke Petersen and the Estate of Pia Arke, Copenhagen

Being and Origin – A Presentation of Pia Arke’s Exhuming Gesture– Carsten Juhl

Pia Arke, Legende III (Legend III), 1999, parchment paper mounted on toned appropriated black-and-white photograph, with powdered graphite and sugar, 191.5 × 161.5cm. Courtesy Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk and the Estate of Pia Arke, Copenhagen

Maria Thereza Alves
- Realism in the Work of Maria Thereza Alves– Paloma Checa-Gismero

Maria Thereza Alves, The Rains, 1984, oil pastel, acrylic paint and black-and-white photographs on canvas, 120 × 200cm. Courtesy the artist

Wake in Guangzhou: Steps for an Ecological Aesthetic– Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra

Maria Thereza Alves, Wake in Guangzhou: The History of the Earth, 2008, Indian ink paintings, photographs, dimensions variable. Installation view, 3rd Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, 2008. Photograph: Maria Thereza Alves/Herunlian. Courtesy the artist

Rustam Khalfin
- ‘The Issue of Corporeality Through the Prism of Tactility’ in Rustam Khalif’s Art– Yuliya Sorokina

Rustam Khalfin in collaboration with a collective of authors, ‘Nulevoi Uroven’. Glinyanyi Proekt (Base Level: The Clay Project), 1999–2001. Installation view, LOOK, Almaty. Photograph: Alexander Malgazhdarov. Courtesy the Astral Nomads Digital Archive, Almaty

Hans Ragnar Mathisen
- Names and Places: The Cartographic Interventions of Hans Ragnar Mathisen– Jan-Erik Lundström

Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Åarjel Saemiej Madtoe Dajve (Homeland of the Southern Sámi), 1998–2017, colour pencil on coated plastic sheet, 70.7 × 52.5cm. Courtesy the artist

A Hand-drawn Map as a Decolonising Document– Maria Therese Stephansen

Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Rátkin IV, 1986, woodblock print, 80.2 × 96.2cm. Photograph: Børre Høstland. Courtesy the Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo and the artist

Events, Works, Exhibitons
- Now and Then: Commodity and Apparatus– Victor Burgin

Victor Burgin, Memory Piece, 1967. Courtesy the artist

‘Struggle as Culture’: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971-73– María Berríos

Luis Poirot, Acto Cultural: El pueblo tiene arte con Allende, Campaña presidencial de Salvador Allende (Cultural Action: The People Have Art with Allende, Salvador Allende’s Presidential Election Campaign), 1969, silver-gelatin print, 32.5 × 48.4cm. Courtesy the artist

Amo la montaña/I Love the Mountain– Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Tambo Colectivx, reconstruction of a lost photograph, 2015. Photograph: Marco Arnez. Courtesy the author

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