PS - Jahresring 61

Description

The Jahresring series is one of the longest continually published annual journals for contemporary art in Germany. The 61st edition is a reader and visual sampler with contributions from visual artists, writers, poets, musicians, choreographers, and designers. Bringing together a discursive array of forms and timbres, it takes an intertextual and interdisciplinary approach to exploring some contemporary cultural resonances with respect to gender and sexuality. In this sense, a "PS" or postscript might be understood as a place where relations or realities not explicitly stated in the main body of any given text, but nevertheless underpinning them, are revealed. A "PS" is a place of interpersonal agency; a compelling textual gesture that might add a "by the way" and an "also" and a "you know what we're really talking about." By its nature, a "PS" is contextualized and contextualizing. Though it may parade as the last word, it never is. The Jahresring is published annually on behalf of Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. Contributors Manuela Ammer, Julie Ault, Monika Baer, Nairy Baghramian, Gerry Bibby, Jennifer Bornstein, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Dragana Bulut, Katarina Burin, Francoise Cactus, Leidy Churchman, Ann Cotten, Juan Davila, Dominic Eichler, Elmgreen & Dragset, Yusuf Etiman, Isa Genzken, Susanne Ghez, Margaret Harrison, Daniel Herleth, Annette Kelm, Janette Laverriere, Adam Linder, Lee Lozano, Charlie Le Mindu, Shahryar Nashat, Gina D'Orio, Stephen Prina, Dean Spade, Ming Wong

Dominic Eichler (*1966, Ballarat, Australia) lives and works in Berlin. He is an art critic, artist, musician, curator, and co-founder of the contemporary art space Silberkuppe. He is also a contributing editor of frieze. In 2005 he was awarded the AdKV Prize for Art Criticism. In 1999 he co-founded the pop band Dominique. Dominique has released three albums " Speak to Me" (2002), " The Same You" (2004), and " More Love Now" (2008). Brigitee Oetker is a German art historian and professor at the Institut fu r Kultur und Medienmanagement der Hochschule fu r Musik und Theater Hamburg.