CUKR #6 / Tabu

If we naively think about the history of art, we can get the feeling that the drive that seeks to take us from era to ERA through the achievements of civilization is precisely taboo. Sometimes a taboo has to be cut at a formal level: introduce or abolish perspective, hack or kill a rhyme, compose or disassemble a novel, build or demolish a composition. To move from nothing to everything and back again, to empty the space, to leave the canvas empty, to remain in silence, and then to start again. Another time, taboos are hidden in motives: to paint a smile on the mouth of the ruler, to dramatize the misfortune of the bourgeois, to disassemble the crotch, to confess fantasies. Laugh at the rulers, laugh at the rulers, lie, tell the truth, and confuse the two. All this drives art, but also Society. The sixth issue of Cukr magazine is devoted to various forms of taboos: what it is like to talk about Palestine in the German cultural space; why we must not stop talking about the genocide that is happening before our eyes; how art scandals generate interest in art; why humor is cathartic; how taboos work in visual art or film; how to talk about (own) death and sexuality; how taboos are manifested on the internet and what is it in art that really touches people intimately.

Essays and columns were contributed by: Marko Yenko, Jure Kirbysh, Teja Kneec, Jela Krechic, Ivana Novak, Eva Vrtachic, Ilija Okturovi, Barbara Peshut, Arjan Pregl. The translator Iztok Ilc did a large interview with the French writer Constance Debr documentary , and the mini-interviews on taboos involved band LELEE , the editorial collective of ETC. , writer Ana Schnabl, artist Matej Stupica and artist and this year's prizewinner Nika Autor. The visual equipment is signed by Aleksandra Vajd & Sheyla Kameri 6, Simon Chang, Luka Hernet, Lealudvik, Tereza Prepadnik, Teja Kneec and Arjan Pregl.

The magazine was created on the initiative of Cukrarna. Editor-in-chief: Dr. Manca G. Renko; editorial: dr. Jela Krecic, Alenka Gregoric, Blaise Pershin; art editor: Ajdin Bashi / <url>; publisher: Museum and galleries of the city of Ljubljana

Language: Slovene
Size: 28,5 x 22 cm
Binding: softcover
Publisher: Muzej in galerije mesta Ljubljana, 2024