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THE UNCERTAIN STATES OF AMERICA READER

THE UNCERTAIN STATES OF AMERICA READER

Noah Horowitz and Brian Sholis

What do artists read? What articles, books, reviews – and cartoons, cookbooks, memoirs and film scripts – influence their work? Here are some answers from the participating artists in the Uncertain States of America exhibition in Oslo and London in 2005.

Under Pressure

Under Pressure

Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw, Institut für Kunstkritik

Art isn’t just about creating work anymore.

VILLA LITUANIA

VILLA LITUANIA

Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas

When the Soviet Union occupied the independent Republic of Lithuania in 1940, it also took over Lithuania’s gracious embassy in Rome, which has housed the Russian Consulate in Rome ever since.

THE VIOLENCE OF PARTICIPATION

THE VIOLENCE OF PARTICIPATION

Markus Miessen

What exactly is Europe? Is it an actual place or just a temporary community based on shared political and economic interests? Edited by London-based architect and writer Markus Miessen, this compilation of essays, cartoons and other writings presents the world’s most densely populated continent as a conflicted political space whose identity must be continuously negotiated.