tranzit.org/

tranzit.at/

Sweet Sixties. Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde

book launch at Vienna Secession, 26 Feb. 2014, 7 pm

Text Information/
Picture Gallery/

In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world is full of eerie displacements and gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity.
The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes, beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs. The stories and spirits of a parallel avantgarde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication.

The book has been published as part of the Sweet Sixties project, 2010–13.

Vienna Book Launch

26 Feb. 2014, 7 pm

Secession
Friedrichstraße 12
1010 Vienna

Speakers:
Christine Böhler, ERSTE Foundation
Georg Schöllhammer, tranzit.at, editor


The publication is edited by
Georg Schöllhammer
Ruben Arevshatyan

With contributions by
Nancy Adajania, Ali Akay, Emin Alper, Ruben Arevshatyan, Vardan Azatyan, Hrach Bayadyan, Derya Bengi, Graciela Carnevale, Boris Chukhovich, Keti Chukhrov, Yasmina Dekkar, Daho Djerbal, Catherine Dossin, Bassam El Baroni, Tarek Elhaik, Mohamed Elshahed, Ali Essafi, Andreas Fogarasi, Vigen Galstyan, Ahmet Gürata, Vardan Jaloyan, Ana Longoni, Sohrab Mahdavi, Toni Maraini, Porter McCray, Matko Meštrovic, Viktor Misiano, Iva Nenic, Fatih Özgüven, Lívia Páldi, Ozren Pupovac, Sperana Radulescu, Oleksiy Radynski, Yehuda E. Safran, Rasha Salti, Georg Schöllhammer, Catrin Seefranz, Dubravka Sekulic, Rayyane Tabet, Jaime Vindel, Mohanad Yaqubi, Ala Younis

Managing Editor
Melanie Ohnemus

Graphic Design
Atelier Liska Wesle

Hardcover, 17 x 24,5 cm
528 pages, 350 b/w images, artists' inserts in color

Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York 2014
ISBN 978-3-95679-039-3







 

supported by:
Allianz KulturstiftungThe Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency Executive Agency

supported by:
Allianz KulturstiftungThe Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency Executive Agency