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Sweet Sixties

Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde

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In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world is full of eerie displacements and gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity.
The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes, beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs. The stories and spirits of a parallel avantgarde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication.

The book has been published as part of the Sweet Sixties project, 2010–13.

Sweet Sixties
Authors: Nancy Adajania, Ali Akay, Emin Alper, et al.
Editors: Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Design: Atelier Liska Wesle
City: Berlin/New York
Year: 2014
Pages: 528
ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-95679-039-3
Price: EUR 26,00

Notes
With texts by
Nancy Adajania, Ali Akay, Emin Alper, Ruben Arevshatyan, Vardan Azatyan, Hrach Bayadyan, Derya Bengi, Boris Chukhovich, Keti Chukhrov, Yasmina Dekkar, Daho Djerbal, Catherine Dossin, Bassam El Baroni, Tarek Elhaik, Mohamed Elshahed, Ali Essafi, Vigen Galstyan, Ahmet Gürata, Vardan Jaloyan, Ana Longoni, Sohrab Mahdavi, Toni Maraini, Matko Meštrovic, Viktor Misiano, Iva Nenic, Fatih Özgüven, Lívia Páldi, Ozren Pupovac, Speran“a Radulescu, Oleksiy Radynski, Yehuda E. Safran, Rasha Salti, Georg Schöllhammer, Catrin Seefranz, Dubravka Sekulic, Jaime Vindel, Mohanad Yaqubi, Ala Younis

Artists' contributions by
Graciela Carnevale, Andreas Fogarasi, Porter McCray, Rayyane Tabet

Managing Editor
Melanie Ohnemus