Once we were artists

Escaping easy categorization, Marion von Osten is an artist as much as a curator, an organizer-facilitator as much as a theorist, a teacher as much as an editor. This forthcoming BAK reader aims to offer a critical mapping of von Osten's work. It seeks to chart a practice that, in spite of von Osten's undisputed influence and importance in contemporary art and knowledge production has, until now, not been surveyed and analyzed in any thorough way. The book anthologizes commissioned essays (as well as three in-depth conversations) on various aspects and fields of von Osten's holistic practice-one which is in essence collaborative and process-oriented-revolving around issues of feminism, economic theory, education and (post)coloniality. 

Contributors: Kader Attia, Sabeth Buchmann & Judith Hopf, Diedrich Diederichsen, Tom Holert, Brian Kuan Wood, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Peter Spillmann, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr