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In the Making: In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After. A Research-Based Practice is about the working method of the artist and exhibition maker Marion von Osten (1963-2020). Through the genesis of one of her major exhibitions, In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After, and other related exhibitions, Marion von Osten recounts modes of research, forms of collaboration, research trips, and encounters. Was the book ColonialModern. Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future (ed. by Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, Marion von Osten) dedicated to the exhibition itself, which deals with the connection between architecture, urban planning, and colonialism, Marion von Osten's In the Making traces the conceptual and design settings of exhibition making and reveals connections in order to reconnect them where necessary. Almost as if incidentally and yet quite centrally, In the Making establishes walking, talking, listening, meeting, relating asessential components of inquiry-not only in a postcolonial context, but especially there. Addressing spatial politics, power relations, and social struggles at the time of colonialism, liberation struggles, and decolonization in North Africa, In the Making welcomes unexpected encounters and opens pathways to parainstitutional and feminist exhibition making.In the Making: In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After. A Research-Based Practice handelt von der Arbeitsweise der Künstlerin und Ausstellungsmacherin Marion von Osten (1963-2020). Anhand der Genese einer ihrer großen Ausstellungen In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After und weiteren damit verbunden Ausstellungen erzählt Marion von Osten von Weisen der Recherche, von Formen der Zusammenarbeit, von Forschungsreisen und Begegnungen. War das Buch ColonialModern. Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future(hg. von Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, Marion von Osten) der Ausstellung selbst gewidmet, in der es um den Zusammenhang von Architektur, Stadtplanung und Kolonialismus geht, lässt Marion von Osten in In the Making konzeptionelle und gestalterische Setzungen des Ausstellungsmachens nachvollziehen und legt Zusammenhänge offen, um sie, wo nötig, neu zu verknüpfen. Fast wie nebenher und doch ganz zentral etabliert In the Making spazieren, sprechen, zuhören, treffen, verbinden als wesentliche Bestandteile der Recherche - nicht nur in einem postkolonialen Zusammenhang, aber vor allem dort. In the Making, das sich mit Raumpolitik, Machtverhältnissen und sozialen Kämpfenzur Zeit des Kolonialismus, der Befreiungskämpfe und Dekolonisierung in Nordafrika auseinandersetzt, heißt unerwartete Begegnungenwillkommen und eröffnet Wege zu einem parainstitutionellen und feministischen Ausstellungsmachen.

Tabea Blumenschein (1952-2020), Hilka Nordhausen (1949-1993), and Rabe perplexum (1956-1996) were eccentric artists of the eighties - they deviated from norms and operated outside of the centre in subcultural milieus. . They worked in friendly constellations in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. Blumenschein, Nordhausen, and perplexum represented images of gender and identity that weren't recognised at the time and lived out their sexual orientations in a non-conformist manner. The artistic work of the eccentrics was formulated in performances, readings, films, concerts, or murals - in collaborative and often ephemeral form. They are brought together and discussed contextually for the first time in a book Their lives and works are activated by contemporary artists Ergül Cengiz (*1975) (3 Hamburger Frauen), Philipp Gufler (*1989), and Angela Stiegler (*1987) in a series of images and texts. Art theoretical and philosophical texts as well as voices of contemporaries provide insights into the diverse scenes of the eighties and reflect them for today.The book is published in the context of the exhibition "Eccentric 80s in Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg.

The liberal capitalist world order that prevailed after 1989 is today in a stage of advanced disintegration. The collapse of this order exposes the illiberal core of its freedoms and forms of ownership shaped by the market: the violent unfreedoms of the dispossessed as well as the willingness of the propertied to use violence. Art, too, reveals itself as the venue of these forces and their exclusions: Through the downfall of liberality, the modern institution of "veranstaltlichte Kunst" ("institutionalized art", Arnold Hauser) and its social legitimacy are also increasingly called into question.Illiberal Arts is a search for forms concerning an artistic "Lebensarbeit" ("life's work", Lu Märten, publicist and art critic, 1879-1970) initiated with international artists, poets and authors. In the cracks of the decaying forms of market accumulation, anti-identitarian, communal horizons burst open, as do collective forms of perception and political spontaneities. The project subjects these to a practical test. For Lu Märten, "a person's whole life's work" was considered artistic; what was artistic didn't always have to become art. Perhaps what became art doesn't necessarily have to remain art either.With contributions by Juliana Spahr; Rosalind C. Morris; Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby;Övül Ö. Durmusoglu; Ana Teixeira Pinto; Simone White; Frank Engster, Lisa Jechske and MYSTI, Jenny Nachtigall, Fumi Okiji,Larne Abse Gogarty, arán Finlayson, Danny Hayward, Em Hedditch, Marina Vishmidt, Danny Hayward a.o.

The book Public Sphere by Performance results from a two-year research project Performance and the Public that Ana Vujanovic, Bojana Cvejic and Marta Popivoda carried out in 2011 and 2012, during the residency of TkH (Walking Theory) platform (Belgrade) at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervillier. The part of the research of Marta Popivoda gave rise to the documentary film Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body.The point of departure for this research is the recurrent problem of the public: the eclipse of the public sphere throughout the twentieth century as a marker of the crisis of representative democracy. The theoretical and political perspectives of this transdisciplinary research stem from the discontinuous experiences of participation in the public sphere in former socialist Yugoslavia and contemporary Western neoliberalism. The authors propose an analysis of and discussion about the public - and its discontents - through several models of mass, collective, and self-performances, such as social drama and social choreography. In numerous collaborations with artists, theoreticians, and activists in 2011, they have closely observed transversal social, artistic, and cultural artifacts and practices: movements, images,laws, habits, and discourses."There are few questions as politically pressing as that of the public - who it is, what it desires, and perhaps more crucially, who wants to destroy it in the name of neoliberal privatisation and the "order" imposed by the state's own image of a 'public' mobilised against its own people. By addressing the question of the public through the prism of performance, Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic acutely outline the past, present and future of the 'public' in an era when all of its supports-the welfare state, a strong image of democracy, collective movements-have been marginalised or destroyed." Nina Power, senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University, London.