Transition to Nowhere: Art in History after 1989 - Boris Buden (Archive Books) gallery public lecturer and anti-war activist

public lecturer and anti-war activist

The film now comprises about 15 hours of 16 mm film

’— Daniel Trilling

thoughtful interrogation we’ve come to expect from de Beauvoir

The cover is a detail from a drawing by Rackstraw Downes

Transition to Nowhere: Art in History after 1989 - Boris Buden (Archive Books) gallery public lecturer and anti-war activistToday, after Post Communism has ended in chaos and confusion, we are entitled to ask: was it a condition, or a transition; a rise or a decline; progression, regression or simply a time lag? Has it ever shaped its own form of social being, a unique mode of economic production, a politics of its own, a culture? Or was it just another interregnum of history, full of morbid symptoms we cannot get rid of? Most of the essays in this book search for answers