Past Events
2009 (click to view): CENTENARY ISSUE
Our 100th Isue, Art: A Vision of the Future, comes out Sepetember 2009. Below is an excerpt from the Introduction to our Special Issue, “Call for Papers” by Rasheed Araeem.
“Third Text has reached its 100th issue. This marks twenty-two years of publishing history since our foundation in 1987. It also amounts to a considerable body of work achieved by the scholarly efforts of our collaborators on an international scale. Third Text has been fortunate in eliciting and encouraging responses from contributors across the world whose critical reflections might otherwise have been neglected or altogether excluded. Third Text’s brief remains, as it always was, to provide an international platform for those artistic and critical practices, and in general for the production of knowledge beyond eurocentric confines, that are constantly at risk of being marginalised. “
” The pouint of this special centenary issue is not to rest on self-congratulation. On the contrary, and mindful of this new century’s global troubles, it is incumbent on Third Text to take critical stock of itself, to review its shortcomings, and even, why not, to consider its failures - it may be that what it aimed at has not yet been achieved. There can be no success in advancing a critical examination of the world if one is not prepared to confront one’s limitations or failure - and to try to go beyond them. Art historical knowledge and critical discourses are both fundamental to the understanding of art, but if this understanding cannot go beyond its academic or institutional frameworks and offer a way forward into the future - what is the point in such an exercise?” - Rasheed Araeen
2008 (click to view): Tate Symposia. “What Is British Art?”
2006: British Council, Kiev. “Writing Europe”
2004 (click to view): Oxford Brookes University. “1956: Legacies of Political Change in Art and Visual Culture”