Marion von Osten
Subtitle: once we were artists
By: edited by Maria Hlavajova and Tom Holert
Contributors: Osten, Marion von, artist
Series: A BAK critical reader in artists' practice; BAK critical reader series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789492095145; 9789077288238
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Catalogs
Other titles: Once we were artists (a BAK critical reader in artists' practice); bak 2017 :
Description: "Escaping easy categorization, Marion von Osten is an artist as much as a curator, an organizer-facilitator as much as a theorist, a teacher as much as an editor. In all these fields, her practice is distinctly process-oriented and collaborative. Marion von Osten : Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists' Practice) critically maps the political commitment of von Osten's influential work to feminism, theories of labor, knowledge production, education, and (post)coloniality. The contributions discuss some of the many aspects of this situated, collaborative, process-oriented work so as to provide a locus from which to further engage her transversal practice, as well as the subject of the artist at present. Contributors: Kader Attia, Sabeth Buchmann & Judith Hopf, Diedrich Diederichsen, Tom Holert, Brian Kuan Wood, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Peter Spillmann, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes a catalog of the artist's work.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Once we were artists  -- Maria Hlavajova and Tom Holert in conversation with Marion von Osten; title: Interview  -- Kader Attia and Marion von Osten; title: Friends in context  -- Sabeth Buchmann and Judith Hopf; title: The best of three worlds  -- Diedrich Diederichsen; title: In the company of others : Marion von Osten's building practice  -- Tom Holert; title: The horses  -- Brian Kuan Wood; title: Becoming common : precarization as political constituting (a revision)  -- Isabell Lorey; title: Notes on curatorial production : Marion von Osten, art, and the Birmingham Contemporary Cultural Studies tradition  -- Angela McRobbie; title: Our relation to all these places is operative : practices beyond curating  -- Peter Spillmann; title: Beneath the atelier, the desert : critique, institutional and infrastructural  -- Marina Vishmidt; title: The transversal imperative  -- Tirdad Zolghadr; title: Annotated list of productions --; title: Biography Marion von Osten.