It is reconforting that Karlsruhe academics are working on this critic subject and Sebastian Baden posted this well done blog . It is actually interesting to see how a critic of documenta seems to be not welcome , I thought critics within should be a way to show passion and respect for this well respected staged event . Bring a critic to documenta is like to bring a present to a birthday party , you must ! .There is a good guru – list of official- critical – artists at documenta but unfortunately they are lubricating more than questioning the frame inviting them , but maybe I miss something .

This work is in affiliation with the Biennalist format that question cultural staged events and measuring the distance between their press release and what they actually do
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html

In fact we will have been interested to activate the format Emergency Room for documenta ( beside the biennalist )
but the proposition was not accepted
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/
Emergency Room for 100 days was not possible at documenta ( why not ?) . Many institutions have difficulties to commission within themselves critical platform activate in ultracontemporay mod . We ( with the 400 artist from Emergency Room would have been interested to spend effort on looking at emergencies in real time and show how the format can function as we have ( also ) to look at today – today , but that kind of art is not the matter here . as what is going on is subject to guidance ( furhung ) and precise culture politic .

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i will take the chance to add some links and details to add index to the well done blog :

Emergency Room is that friend with the word creativity
it is just I have the feeling that creativity is something that scary societies see as a positif value , but it is connect to advertising domination ,like what is called the ” win win ” .
creativity is a method , a trick , it is not art , it is a state of creating no matter what consequence can be

not sure in German what kreativ means

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” the Emergency will replace the contemporary ” : is actually not a protest but a prediction of what is happening and will happen more
it is not even a warning it is a constatation
Can art be in advance of the broken arm ?

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the blue helmet is a character that represent a metaphor of the artist in Kassel ( or Kabul ) a personage working for the Kassel tourism office , and an occassional peace keeper looking without adequat question branded good .
how ever the question is
“Does the artist has a role or a function ”
( should he be send on mission like selling more hotel room in Kassel or mission on Kabul )
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Do-Artists-have-a-Role-or-a-Function-/153651754657289

and can we trust a soldat just because he has use blue paint ?
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the photo of the paper in bad condition is from the serie “self censure ”
more to come on tha

Dass es dem Kollegen Thierry Geoffroy nicht anders erging als mir 2007, als ich mein die documenta zum Klimaflüchtligslager ausrief, wundert mich nicht. Es gibt eben willkommene und ins Bild passende Formen der Kritik und solche, welche die documenta-Leitung nicht aushält. Das war übrigens nicht anders, als ich Obdachlose durch die d 11 geführt habe. der damalige Leiter Okwui Enwesor war gar nicht erfreut darüber und versuchte, meine Aktion zu verhindern. Erst, als Kamerateams von den mich begleitenden Medien erschienen, wand man sich herum und macht gute Mine zum kritischen Spiel.

Die documenta ist eben wie auch alle anderen Inszenierungen der etablierten Kunstszene eine Plattform von Interessenvertretern, die sich dem Machtgefüge derjenigen verschrieben haben, die mit ihrem Kapital unsere Gesellschaft zu beherrschen suchen. Künstlerische Störenfriede, die wirklich an die Wurzeln gehen sind da unerwünscht.

for monopoli it is rather calm !http://www.monopol-magazin.de/artikel/20105664/documenta-halbzeit.html

if you are interest in beeing involved in Thierry Geoffroy Colonel @ documenta critic part 2 please writte : 1@colonel.dk . we are interest in funding ( money for operation ) , developping and exposing the result of the critical work ( conference , publication , exhibitions )and people help as well = part 2 is getting prepared NOW as the Emergency is not finnish….
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html
In 2011 Biennalist work in Athens was supported by ZKM museum and Venice Biennale by Sprengel Museum Hannover

new development of the Biennalist @ Kassel .:

” THE NEXT DOCUMENTA SHOULD BE CURATED BY A TANK ”

http://globalartmuseum.de/site/site/guest_author ( @ZKM )

here blog from Kopenhagen.dk

Kassel: Is committing self censure a solution?

Mean while we are following arab revolutions seeing every day terrifying reports of repression
Mean while we travel from politically engaged contemporary art show to the next
Mean while posting on Ai Wei Wei and Pussy Riot
Mean while we applaud the documenta enormous success …..( more …

http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/blog-single/article/et-testindlaeg/

just launched Creative Time Report with Liam Gillick , Suzanne Lacy , Jean-Euphèle Milcé, Pedro Reyes ,Negin Farsad; Nato Thompson… .this month about Kassel ( Kassel a la Twin Peaks )

http://creativetimereports.org/2012/09/03/europe-looking-good-meanwhile-selling-dope/

Is dOCUMENTA designed to make people cry about something and not make them see something else?
Is the contemporary a distraction from the present?
Can art in delay have any impact with today?
Do we learn anything by seeing art shows reflecting on history?
Could 860,000 visitors have been intoxicated by an apathic gaze than keep them away from reacting?
Why is dOCUMENTA proud of having recieve no critic?
Why is proximity less important?
Why was dOCUMENTA in Kabul?
Can weapons designed to kill protesters sold to a repressing regime be contradictory to the support of the Arab Spring?
Is the contemporary like a flea market to avoid to debating the important topics of today?
Can art be in advance of the broken arm, and avoid accident?
Is the goal of dOCUMENTA to create a revolution or to entertain?
Is dOCUMENTA betterly done than Disney Land?
Is it better to watch Fox News for two years or to go to dOCUMENTA for two days?

If a curator, curating a contemporary art show about war, forgets to debate about the weapons factories next door, should it be considered as a professional mistake?

Is it OK to employ philosophers to promote vodka?

Is navigation a threat?
http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/viewArticle/112

“THE NEXT DOCUMENTA SHOULD BE CURATED BY A TANK ” new site : http://www.emergencyrooms.org/next_documenta_curated_by_tanks.html