[artinfo] Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists

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BAK
basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and Valiz, Amsterdam are proud to 
announce the release of

Marion von Osten:
Once We Were Artists
(A BAK Critical Reader in Artists' Practice).

The reader critically maps the political commitment of von Osten's 
influential work to feminism, theories of labor, knowledge 
production, education, and (post)coloniality. Von Osten's practice 
systematically escapes strictures of canonization by scrutinizing, 
obstructing, and unsettling divisions categorizing art, art object, 
history making, theory, authority, curating, organizing, and 
teaching, opening up routes to radical re-readings of the 
contemporary. The contributions to this book discuss some of the many 
aspects of this situated, collaborative, process-oriented work so as 
to provide a locus from which to further engage her transversal 
practice, as well as the subject of the artist at present.

Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in 
Artists' Practice), edited by Maria Hlavajova and Tom Holert, 
includes contributions by cultural practitioners Kader Attia, Sabeth 
Buchmann & Judith Hopf, Diedrich Diederichsen, Tom Holert, Brian Kuan 
Wood, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Peter Spillmann, Marina 
Vishmidt, and Tirdad Zolghadr. The reader is designed by Kummer & 
Herrman, Utrecht.

To order a copy of Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK 
Critical Reader in Artists' Practice), please e-mail 
<mailto:info at bakonline.org>info at bakonline.org or visit the website of 
<http://www.valiz.nl>Valiz.

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