IS OUT NOW
Guest editor: Gergő Horváth
Editors and Founders: Răzvan Ion & Eugen Rădescu
"As soon as we are born, fear becomes an essential part of our lives. A mild persecution complex develops. Fear is induced through certain events, by the people around us, through their actions and knowledge, be it warranted or not, conscious or unconscious.
Freud explained in Civilization and Its Discontents that we have an unconscious need for punishment, which is an `instinctual manifestation on the part of the ego, which has become masochistic under the influence of the sadistic super-ego’. Before we try to defeat any external oppressive power, we must examine ourselves. The inherent need for punishment, the thought that we deserve what we get, has to be considered. Freud goes on to say that this inherent need for punishment `is a portion, that is to say, of the instinct toward internal destruction present in the ego, employed for forming an erotic attachment to the super-ego’. We create pleasure out of received aggression to deal with the cruel super-ego. The super-ego’s self-aggression stems from our incapacity, as infants, to fully externalize our biological aggression, so parts of this aggression turn into self-aggression. So, it seems, for us to be able to abolish any form of punitive power, first we m ust, in some measure, destroy ourselves or come to terms with the masochistic and sadistic parts of our psyche. This is no simple task. It is easier to accept and submit to certain constructs than to abolish them. Getting to a state of being able to raise the questions which generate progress is an extensive endeavor, but interrogation is the most powerful and effective tool any- one has ever had at their disposal to evolve." (Gergő Horváth)
In this issue:
(free download the pdf version of the issue at www.pavilionjournal.org)
Column
Gergő Horváth - Apprehension. Understanding Through Fear of Understanding
Around
Florian Gottke - A Protester in Homs, Syria
David Goldenberg - Between Revolution and Heresy
Răzvan Ion - The Affluence of the Working Class from Differentiation to Collectivism (On Fashion and the Politics of Aesthetics)
George Prochnik - The disintegration of an ideal Apprehension. Understanding Through Fear of Understanding
Cătălin Avramescu - The Raw Philosopher (An intellectual history of cannibalism)
Jorg Heiser - Count Down - The art world’s ambivalent response to surveillance
Chantal Mouffe - Democratic Politics in the Age of Post-Fordism
Alexandru Senciuc - Online activism as a precursor for the Foam City
Extent
Adrian Dan
Jan Kaila
Raqs Media Collective
Filip Gilissen
Alejandro Vidal
Zoltán Béla
Carlos Aires
Dan Beudean
Arantxa Etcheverria
Bjørn Erik Haugen
Marilena Preda-Sânc
Gabriel Stoian
János Sugár
Erwin Wurm
Mihai Zgondoiu
Matei Arnăutu
Stephanie Syjuco
Cezar Lăzărescu & 1+1
Stephanie Syjuco
Dromedar
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Image: Raqs Media Collective (IN), Meanwhile/Elsewhere (Fear and Understanding), vinyl, 1.3 sqm., 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Bucharest Biennale. Cover of PAVILION #17, reader of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 6
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What is PAVILION?
A journal for politics and culture that name alludes to the relative temporary structure of the contemporary art.
The journal is presenting wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary content ineach issue through the varied formats of regular column, essays, interviews, and artist projects.
Our publication addresses to a broad audience of readers, which are interested in contemporary culture and recent political and social issues and does not only want to describe contemporary phenomenon but with its militant attitude it tries to directly intervene in cultural, political and social life.
Every issue has a special theme, which gives the general outline for the accumulation of texts, artworks and projects.
Moreover, PAVILION is the producer of many related projects like BUCHAREST BIENNALE | Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art, www.bucharestbiennale.org and run the contemporary art center PAVILION, www.pavilioncenter.org
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