#34 archaeology of euphoria
At the end of 1989, totalitarian regimes in Eastern Bloc collapsed, which radically foreshadowed the development of the next decades and became an impulse of the end of history, the concept by Francis Fukuyama who theoretically outlined the post-historical phase of Western neoliberalism in 1992. The prevailing bipolar view of the political change at that time often simplifies the situation. With sufficient distance today, we can look at the political and social changes not from the perspective of a turning point, but rather of “melting” or “transition”. It is a chance to describe not only the turning point itself, but also the overtures and finales of the related transformations, an attempt to describe many misunderstandings across the society, its dead ends and excesses. Such a perspective should not look only at one milestone, but at the entire transition phase from the 1980s to the establishment of neoliberal capitalism.
The 1980s and 1990s were also a time when postmodernism became more widely established as an artistic direction in Czechoslovakia. Postmodern theories not only responded to the sudden looseness of many fields, including arts, but also legitimized a number of disparate eclectic processes, thus actually delaying a real discussion on modernity as an aesthetic and social milieu. How are all these fundamentals and roots of our present democracy seen from today’s perspective? To what extent are we able to formulate our position at that time and compare it to where we really want to go today? What social and cultural identity did we accept, and under what conditions, and what have we kept from it?
Highlights:
Stephanie Kiwitt
Christopher Niedenthal
Lukáš Jasanský & Martin Polák
Marge Monko
Simon Menner
Pavel Jasanský
#41 postdigital photography — Profiles
Filip Láb

Filip Láb, who died unexpectedly and prematurely in May 2021, was not only a prominent theorist and teacher of photography, but was also one of a generation of artists that dealt with the shift in political polarities and radical changes in the photographic paradigm…
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Eva and Franco Mattes

Two recent works by Eva and Franco Mattes – Personal Photographs (2019) and Nostalgia May 3, 2021 (2021) – invite us to see photographs, and their authors, as online platforms see them…
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Agnieszka Sejud

Apart from studying law in Wroclaw, the Polish author Agnieszka Sejud also studied at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. Her training, therefore, is in photography, even though she presents herself more as a visual artist and activist in her work, often as a member of the art duo KWAS, which she forms with her ICP classmate Karolina Wojtas…
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#41 postdigital photography — Profiles
Bára Mrázková

We see something, we don’t exactly know what. We want to find out; we enter the image into the search engine. It finds something, we don’t know exactly how, usually more or less the right thing…
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Sanaz Sohrabi

Although it might sometimes seem that way, photographs never exist in themselves. And this is doubly true of those made by machines or for archival or documentary purposes. As the art of Sanaz Sohrabi demonstrates, images (and particularly reproduced images) are part of often unwanted testimony embedded into dense nets of relationship…
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- ––– Editorial
- Editorial
- ––– Introduction
- Introduction
- ––– Project
- Matyáš Chochola
- ––– Profiles
- Anetta Mona Chisa a Lucia Tkáčová
- Olof Olsson
- Martin Hrubý
- Svätopluk Mikyta
- Jiří Kovanda
- Christian Lange
- Jan Malý
- Ulrich Wüst
- Dagmar Hochová
- Pavel Jasanský
- Simon Menner
- Marge Monko
- Lukáš Jasanský & Martin Polák
- Chris Niedenthal
- Stephanie Kiwitt
- ––– Interview
- Tomáš Pospěch: An Interview with Vladimír Birgus, Antonín Dufek, and Miro Švolík
- ––– Discoveries
- Viktor Kopasz
- Jakub Geltner
- Gigi Cifali
- ––– Theory
- Human Scale
- Vilém Flusser
- ––– Events
- Jubilee Rencontres d'Arles
- A Special Anniversary
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Markéta Othová
- Bastian Schwind
- ––– Reviews
- Dialectics of a Montage-Maker
- Aperture Conversations: 1985 to Present
- From the Prague Uprising to the General Strike
- To See the Statue Means to Create it Again
- The Magic of the Multiplied Image
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face