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A Book Affair #11: PoLyPen, Next Spring | Sabeth Buchmann, Kerstin Stakemeier, Laura Preston
Please join us on Wednesday October 31st, at 7 pm for a conversation between Sabeth Buchmann, Kerstin Stakemeier and Laura Preston moderated by Helena Papadopoulos.
@Circuits and Currents Navarhou Notara & Tositsa 7 pm
Sabeth Buchmann, co-editor of PoLyPen, a series of publications dedicated to art criticism and political theory will discuss Kertin Stakemeier’s book in the series, Entgrenzter Formalismus: Verfahren einer antimodernen Ästhetik (Deformed formalism: Processes of Αntimodern Αesthetics).
Laura Preston, editor of Next Spring, will discuss the second issue in the series entitled Athens, June18 which focuses on the work of Marianne Christofides and includes an essay by Elena Parpa.
The discussion will be held in English. There will be drinks!
Sabeth Buchmann (Berlin/ Vienna), is Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. With Helmut Draxler, Clemens Krümmel, and Susanne Leeb she is co-editor of PoLyPen, a series on art criticism and political theory, published by b_books, Berlin (since 2005); she is a board member of the art magazine Texte zur Kunst. Selected publications include: Co-ed. with Ilse Lafer and Constanze Ruhm: Putting Rehearsals to the Test. Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film. Theater, Theory, and Politics (Berlin 2016); Textile Theorien der Moderne. Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik. ed. with Rike Frank (Berlin 2015), Hélio Oiticica, Neville D'Almeida and others: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa, co-authored with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz (London 2013), Film Avantgarde Biopolitik, ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan Geene (Vienna 2009), Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (Berlin 2007); Art After Conceptual Art, ed. with Alexander Alberrro (Cambridge / Mass. 2006).
Kerstin Stakemeier is a professor of art theory and -mediation at the Academy of Fine Arts
Nuremberg. With Manuela Ammer, Eva Birkenstock, Jenny Nachtigall and Stephanie Weber she is the initiator of the long-term exhibition, magazine and discussion project Klassensprachen/ Class Languages (since 2017). She was the initiator of the "Space for Actualization" (with Nina Köller, Hamburg 07/08) and a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, 09/10). She published among others "Painting-The Implicit Horizon" (2012) with Avigail Moss and "Power of Materials/Politics of Material” and “The Present of the Future“ (2014-16) with Susanne Witzgall.
Laura Preston is an artist and editor who lives and works in Berlin. She is currently working on her PhD with Sabeth Buchmann at the Institute of Art Theory and Critical Studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her research relates to the performativity of the artwork, specifically sculpture at that cusp moment of modern art becoming post- to reconsider the nuanced relationships artists, mainly women, had with subjectivity and notions of difference. Her writing has featured on artforum, in frieze, and in the Reading Room journal. She has edited books including the ongoing series Next Spring: An Occasional Series of Reviews (Atlas Projectos, Berlin / Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington); Post-Apocalyptic Realism and Postapocalyptic Self-Reflection, with Tonio Kröner and Tanja Widmann (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne / Museum Brandhorst, Munich; University of Applied Arts, Vienna); Michael Stevenson: An Introduction (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne / Portikus, Frankfurt am Main / Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and Animal Spirits: Fables in the Parlance of Our Time (Christoph Keller Editions). Preston was an associate editor for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel.
Next Spring is an occasional series of art reviews published in book form. Each new issue in the decade-long series is informed by a place where a member of the editorial and design collective is living at the time of publication, with invited authors given a year to write an in- depth piece of criticism focused on a time-based artwork. Published in English and the language of place.
