Books are portraits of their time; they are like mirrors, reflecting how we see and perceive ourselves.

Experience is not solely intellectual; I have to join throughout my body and make myself available with all my senses.

03 ON POLITICS

12 FICTION(S)

We propose to create a voluntary Artist Solidarity Fund (ASF) in order to economically secure the cultural field and serve as a utopian model for new progressive forms of solidary politics.

An artwork is the place of the non-identical, impossible to be dominated and subsumed.

No, we are all part of it, let’s face it, let’s work our way through it.

07 PRECARIOUSNESS

Power is when a 25kW+ techno bass-line crosses the dance-floor to end up as a feeling in your legs that cannot help but move.

While it is true that it is difficult to think that artistic forms can abolish borders and orders, it is also true that art serves to question, to confront, and to displace them.

ENTKUNSTUNG II Preface

Time also flows, as in the verse of the Spanish poet Miguel de Unamuno: from the eternal tomorrow.

Wir sind nicht primär aus Angst, Sorge und Tod gemacht.

06 AVANT-GARDE

But that’s art too, isn’t it? A relief, a shelter, a justification of everything we stand for.

The avant-garde also proved that it is as well about failing.

ENTKUNSTUNG II Editors' Note

Of the countless false certainties that roam the world, art does not subscribe any.

There is an *unsatisfied* reason in the experience of art.

Tracing the limits of criticism is not only a question of truth but also a matter of decision.