FAIR ENOUGH by ART COLOGNE + TEXTE ZUR KUNST #7

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. Tom McDonough: On the
Politics of the Image In this episode, art historian and critic Tom
McDonough (Binghamton University / Texte zur Kunst contributing
editor) joins Micaela Dixon to discuss the politics of the image —
and the legacies of critical theory in an era of visual
overproduction. Together, they explore how artistic and
journalistic practices have absorbed and transformed concepts from
thinkers such as Walter Benjamin and Guy Debord, and what remains
of the avant-garde’s visual strategies today. The conversation also
reflects on McDonough’s long engagement with institutional
critique, the Situationist International, and the ways in which
contemporary art continues to negotiate the space between
aesthetics, activism, and spectacle. A dense yet lucid exchange on
what images do — how they act, circulate, and shape our
understanding of the world. 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.