FAIR ENOUGH by ART COLOGNE + TEXTE ZUR KUNST #5

FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast series by ART COLOGNE in collaboration
with the journal TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Presented by Micaela Dixon, FAIR
ENOUGH brings together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to
reflect on how art and its institutions are responding to the
urgencies of our present moment. This season marks the 35th
anniversary of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Here, the journal's motto for the
year is taken up, there is no art without criticism. Each episode
returns to a past issue of the journal to revisit the debates it
sparked and to consider how those questions continue to shape the
cultural and political landscape today. Tara Heffernan: The Return
of the Badaud Art critic Tara Heffernan discusses the reappearance
of the 19th-century badaud — the idle onlooker, the fascinated
observer of modern life — in today’s art world. In conversation
with Micaela Dixon, Heffernan reflects on the emergence of new
forms of art journalism and the shifting landscape of criticism in
what she defines as a time of “no posterity.” Together, they
explore the state of the avant-garde, the tensions between
attention and distraction, and how social reportage and immediacy
are reshaping the position of the critic. A thoughtful dialogue on
the future of art writing — and on what it means to look, linger,
and record in an age of relentless now. FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast by
ART COLOGNE in collaboration with TEXTE ZUR KUNST, bringing
together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to examine how
art responds to the urgencies of our time. Season 1 marks TEXTE ZUR
KUNST’s 35th anniversary with the theme: There Is No Art Without
Criticism.