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Editor-in-Chief | Andreas Stadler
Executive Editor | Maria Simma
Exhibition | Elisabeth Haider
Film | Manfred Kapper
Literature | Martin Rauchbauer
Music and Dance | Michael Karning
On Books | Edeltrud Desmond
Contributions | RonAmber Deloney, Marianne Dobner, Michel Galante, Jenn Joy, Andrei Markovits, Sigrid Polster, Gerald Raunig, Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Trevor Smith, Jürgen Weishäupl, Claudia Witzmann
Translation and Proofreading| Susan Schwarz
Photocredits |
Cover
Glory performed by Jeremy Wade and Marysia Stoklosa.
Photo by Mathias Trostdorf
Letter from the Editor
Hermann Nitsch and Andreas Stadler photgraph by Maria Simma
Exhibition
Nives Widauer, Philosoccer, 2007
Serge Spitzer
Global Culture (Red)
2004-05
Robotic platform with leather ball
36.5 x 98 x 63.5 inches
Courtesy the artist
Thomas Feuerstein
Flesh for Fantasy
2008
Digital wall graphic 744 x 673 cm
Courtesy the artist
Soccer and the Nobel Prize
Drawing by Peter Steiner
Playing and Following: A Short History about Soccer
Klaus Pobitzer
Superfan
2008
Digital graphics
Dimensions variable
Kiesler Panel Discussion
Frederick Kiesler, Study for model of Endless House, c. 1959. Pen on paper, 5 x 8 inches. (c) Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna. Source: Archive of the Kiesler Foundation, Vienna.
Ears and Mind
Michel Galante photograph by Richard Frank
Argento Ensemble
Argento Ensemble photograph by John Gurrin
Martin Philadelphy
Martin Philadelphy photograph by Elisabeth Klug
Pen Festival
Thomas Bernhard photograph by Reiser SV
Daniel Kehlmann photograph by Sven Paustian
Evelyn Schlag photograph by Marko Lipus www.literaturfoto.net
Evelyn Schlag Interview
Evelyn Schlag photographs by Marko Lipus www.literaturfoto.net
Marcus Carney's THE END OF THE NEUBACHER PROJECT
Dog and Rabbit (c) MJC, Extrafilm
Transversality Lab
Ákos Hargitay (c) Peter Hapak
Glory's Face: Choreographing the Spasm
Glory performed by Jeremy Wade and Marysia Stoklosa.
Photo by Mathias Trostdorf
News in Arts and Sciences US
Werner Reiterer
I Thought it´s an Idea but it's my Brain, 2005
Bathtub, sensors, textilies, humidifier, shoes
128 x 145 x 185 cm
Realization of head: AnaMaria Heigl
Ricarda Denzer
"10m2 tragbar" ( 10m2 to carry)
VALIE EXPORT
Abrundung II (Round Off II)
1976 Edition 3
black and white photograph, cut out on negative
22 x 31 in
Framed
Marieluise Hessel Collection
Stefan Nemeth photograph by Gerald Zahn
feet of contemporary choreographers
Carolyn Carlson photograph by Lisa Rastl
News in Arts and Sciences Austria
Wiener Festwochen: Opening. Photo: Mike Ranz
Frequency: FMS - Robert Kohlhuber - Open Minded
ImPulsTanz: Akram Kahn & National Ballet of China "bahok" (c) Liu Yang
Overlapping Voices:
ANISA ASHKAR
"Agria Matia 4", 2004
Digital photo print
100 x 100 cm
Foto: courtesy Ron Amir
(c) Anisa Ashkar