In her bestselling book “Down Girl,” philosopher Kate Manne examined misogyny, analyzing the ideological presuppositions and structural effects of patriarchal society. In her more recent book, “Entitled,” Manne continues this work and refines it from an intersectional perspective. In honor of our anniversary issue’s theme, “The Feminist,” our editorial team spoke with Manne about male privilege, why it is important to focus in on misogyny, and how a false commitment to binary gender is necessarily entangled in these questions.

Legacy Russell’s book “Glitch Feminism,” published this year, proposes a concept of gender that moves beyond binaries, that embraces “glitches” – errors that indicate something has gone wrong – and explores how this embrace of failure can be emancipatory. Bodies that “fail” are bodies doing radical work, writes Russell, refusing legibility and breaking free of an understanding of gender as immutable and fixed. In the framework of our December issue, “The Feminist,” Isabelle Graw spoke to Legacy Russell about Glitch Feminism and gender today.

What real social change can political art effect, and can its efficacy even be measured? Artist Erika Landström poses these questions during a visit to Matthew Langan-Peck’s show, “Four Ways, l’amour gagne” at Édouard Montassut, writing that the likely immeasurability of art’s actual social impact leaves it open for exploitation. Landström explores this relationship through Langan-Peck’s work and considers the dissonance between intentions and outcomes.

Nach 30 Tagen des ausgelassenes Feierns von 30 Jahren TEXTE ZUR KUNST geht unser Jubiläumsevent zu Ende mit Videos von: Mirjam Thomann, Trakal, Beate Söntgen, Paul Niedermayer, Steven Warwick und Raphaela Vogel. Keep on celebrating!

Der Kunstverein Braunschweig hat dem afrodeutschen Philosophen Amo Afer eine Ausstellung gewidmet. Im Interesse postkolonialer Kanonverschiebung wird hier Amos Philosophie zum Gegenstand künstlerischer Auseinandersetzung gemacht. Dabei stellt der europäisch-aufklärerische Dualismus, in dessen Tradition Amos Philosophie steht und der eine strikte Trennung des immateriellen Geistes vom lebendigen, empfindsamen Körper vorsieht, die an der Ausstellung beteiligten Künstler*innen vor die Herausforderung, auf die historische Situiertheit Amos entsprechend kontextsensibel zu reagieren. Wie Ines Kleesattel herausarbeitet, zeichnet sich so an den Rändern des historisch Verbrieften die enorme Gegenwartsrelevanz Amos ab. Die Ausstellung, die Corona-bedingt auch online einzusehen ist, wird in Kürze auch bei Savvy Contemporary in Berlin gezeigt werden.

Wir schreiben die vierte Woche unseres Jubiläumsevents, in der wir Videos zeigen von: Katharina Hausladen, Jessica Aimufua, Stacey Gillian Abe, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Brigitte Weingart, Violaine Huisman und Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

Much of the activism unfolding over the last few years in the art world has centered in part on the value and conditions of artistic labor, especially in art’s institutions. While there is a long and rich history of artists and art workers advocating for themselves as workers, real change has been slow and arduous and is often met by institutional gatekeepers who are reluctant or, more typically, averse to structural change. “Working Groups” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart revisits one important predecessor to today’s conversations and uses it as a starting point to think about and implement new labor relations in the arts, as David Jenal reports.

In der dritten Woche unseres Jubiläumsevents zeigen wir Videos von: Christian Liclair, Julia Pelta Feldman, Keren Cytter, Isabelle Graw, Miriam Zeh, Bini Adamczak und Astrid Mania.