Interview

People
Still from Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen, The Restaurant, Season 2 , 2022, HD video, 39:05 min. Courtesy: Will Benedict, Steffen Jørgensen, and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

Still from Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen, The Restaurant, Season 2 (detail), 2022, HD video, 39:05 min. Courtesy: Will Benedict, Steffen Jørgensen, and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

Rolling the Mudball: An Interview with Will Benedict

Fresh off a retrospective at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, the artist speaks to Mitchell Anderson about trying to prove the hard materiality of time.

Discourse
The Dadaists audience: themselves,  Berlin 1920 Opening with Hannah Höch, Otto Schmalhausen, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield mit Kind, Otto Burchard, Margarete und Wieland Herzfelde, Rudolf Schlichter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (?), Unbekannt und Johannes Baader

The Dadaists audience: themselves, Berlin 1920

Opening with Hannah Höch, Otto Schmalhausen, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield mit Kind, Otto Burchard, Margarete und Wieland Herzfelde, Rudolf Schlichter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (?), Unbekannt und Johannes Baader

The Professionals

The field of art is considered to be free, open and accessible to everyone. In reality, no outsiders have been spotted here for a long time. Does “art audience” today really only mean people who have an (economic) interest in the art world? Is anyone immune to the half-drunk advances of its warped social economy? Are we all alone? With these questions in mind, our reporter Elvia Wilk went from Berlin to Venice to the hotspots of this summer's art viewing and asked people.

Discourse
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Piotr Uklanski & Hermann Nitsch Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

Piotr Uklanski & Hermann Nitsch
Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

Hermann Nitsch

The legendary Austrian artist speaks about the similarities between art and religion and the nature of being.