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Volume 4
On Postmodernism
Essays on the legacies of postmodernism by Aria Dean and deconstruction & alt-lit by Michael Shorris; longform interviews with Hal Foster, Ottessa Moshfegh, Theodore (ted) Kerr, Ann Hamilton, and Reinhold Martin; reflections on The Flue’s December 1980 issue by Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, and Sherrie Levine, as well an accompanying essay by Bruce Hainley; and a roundtable conversation on the landmark 1993 exhibition “What Happened to the Institutional Critique?,” featuring Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Andrea Fraser, James Meyer, and Christian Phillip Müller, organized by Nicholas C. Morgan, and Blake Oetting.
Introduction
Volume 4: On Postmodernism
by Aria Dean
"There is now a postmodernism cobbled together from these antecedents that hangs over contemporary culture."
Miscellaneous
Flue-ed Times
Correspondence with Bruce Hainley, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, and Sherrie Levine, and November
"These terms—'What do we own?'; 'What is the same?'—were among the modes of address floating around at the time and seemed to fit."
Roundtable
What Happened to the Institutional Critique?: A Roundtable
with Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Aria Dean, Andrea Fraser, James Meyer, Nicholas C. Morgan, Christian Philipp Müller, and Blake Oetting
"Where’s the anti-aesthetic? The critique of practice is gone."
Essay
After the Revolution
by Michael Shorris
"The new tools ended up in the same old hands."
Interview
Ann Hamilton
in conversation with Nolan Kelly
"I think the hardest thing as an artist is to find form for your questions."
Interview
Theodore (ted) Kerr
in conversation with Ryan Mangione
"Activism can be, and often has been, about bringing dignity to life and death."
Extended
Hal Foster
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“Critical theory, not art or architecture, was the avant-garde of that time.”
Interview
Ottessa Moshfegh
in conversation with Dawn Chan and Emmanuel Olunkwa
"Why should I be reading something that isn’t going to change or influence me to have a new feeling?"