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Renovation
Winter 2014
This issue explore the phenomenon of renovation, which is broached in various artistic practices and experienced on the fringe of artistic activities by both artists and art venues. Numerous works are primarily linked with the field of renovation through their use of particular materials and tools, but also by having recourse to devices that emphasize site, construction, building site development, or the project implementation process. In this perspective, we were interested in texts analyzing corpora of works which — on a real or metaphorical level — question (re)construction processes or directly involve rebuilding.
Editorial
Feature
Kamikaze Renovation: Parasitical Forms Of Renovation
Pre-demolition Art as a Staging of Power-free Relations
Skilled Workers Guild: The Empirical Renovations of the Chapuisat Brothers
Favela Café at Art Basel: Conflicting Signs In Semi-Public Space
Chantiers Unstable Construction Sites
A Cacilheiro in Venice : The renovation and Conversion Of A Ferryboat By Joana Vasconcelos
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Immersion
Winter 2026
This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
Cover: doux soft club
bleu de lieu, 2023-2024.
Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists