::fc-announce:: Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence

[linda carroli]

might be of interest ... lc
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Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence

Sarai Reader 06 uses 'Turbulence' as a conceptual vantage point from which 
to interrogate all that is in the throes of terminal crisis, and to invoke 
all that is as yet unborn. It seek to examine 'turbulence' as a global 
phenomenon, unbounded by the arbitrary lines  that denote national and 
state boundaries in a  'political' map of the world. It wants to see areas 
of low and high pressure in politics, economy and culture that transcend 
borders, to investigate the flow of information and processes between 
downstream and upstream sites in societies and cultures globally'.

At an early stage in its gestation this year, the Sarai Reader was invited 
to participate in a community of publications - a project called 'the 
documenta 12 magazines' 
<<http://www.documenta12.de/english/magazines.html>http://www.documenta12.de/english/magazines.html>
Documenta 12 Magazines is a process and a discursive community that brings 
together  more than 80 print and online periodicals throughout the world. 
"These journals and magazines will discuss the main themes and theories 
behind documenta 12 with particular emphasis being placed on reflecting the 
interests and specific knowledge of the respective local contexts entering 
into a dialogue with documenta 12. These debates will be compiled and 
published in a series of publications. This 'journal of journals', so to 
speak, will represent a forum for the contemporary aesthetic discourse. 
This platform will in turn also form part of the documenta 12 exhibition in 
Kassel." This year, Documenta 12 Magazines addresses the issue of 'Modernity?'.

Sarai Reader 06 interprets this issue with an emphasis on the question mark 
that follows the abstract noun of this marker of temporality. We see our 
time, the one that sits in on Modernity's wake, as an opportunity for 
interrogation and questioning, for admitting to radical uncertainties, and 
looking askance at the claims of truth and beauty. We are happy that this 
Sarai Reader marks a diffuse, dispersed engagement with discourses in 
contemporary art, by featuring a large number of contributions by artists, 
curators and critics, and by paying a degree of focused attention on the 
perils of practice in contemporary art and literature.

Like all Sarai publications, Sarai Reader 06 is available for free download 
in pdf format at: 
<http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader_06.html>http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader_06.html
To order copies of the book, write to: 
<mailto:publications at sarai.net>publications at sarai.net or 
<mailto:aftab at sarai.net>aftab at sarai.net
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