Join us at e-flux on Thursday, May 1 at 7pm for a night of readings and presentations emerging from the fifth issue of e-flux’s new quarterly print publication, e-flux Index.
For this night of readings, we are delighted to welcome Luis Camnitzer, Coco Fusco, Leo Goldsmith, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, and Naeem Mohaiemen. They will each expand upon their contributions to issue 5 of the Index, covering the increasingly technocratic role of STEM in education, the aporias of cultural politics in contemporary Cuba, the investigative images of Harun Farocki, the bureaucratic “paper language” of George Maciunas’ Fluxus administration analyzed in the new book by Colby Chamberlain, and the authoritarian dream of enforcing “shothik itihash” (correct history) in Bangladesh. This event will be hosted by e-flux Index editor George MacBeth.
Index is a quarterly print publication like few others. It sets out to untangle the mess of the contemporary, bringing together art and film theory, philosophy, political theory, architecture, and criticism within the same publication. Each edition draws into dialogue commissioned essays, reviews, and articles from the five separate e-flux sections: e-flux Architecture, e-flux Criticism, e-flux Education, e-flux Journal, and e-flux Notes.
Index #5 features all the pieces published by e-flux between August–September 2024, encompassing 54 pieces from 61 contributors, comprising a veritable supercommunity of artists, theorists, designers, critics, filmmakers, activists, architects, poets, and all those who would prefer not to be categorized!
The printed edition of the Index is available to purchase from select art and design bookstores, as well as museums, throughout Canada, East Asia, Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The publication is distributed by Antenne Books (Europe and the UK), Les presses du réel (Europe), Asterism Books (USA), Art Metropole (Canada), The Book Society (East Asia), and Walther König Buchhandlung(Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Annual subscriptions, covering four issues, are available at both institutional and individual rates here.
e-flux Index #5 features contributions from: Rouzbeh Akhbari, Sanna Almajedi, Étienne Balibar, Rend Beiruti, Xenia Benivolski, Daniel Birnbaum, Hunter Bolin, Nathan Brown, Harry Burke, Luis Camnitzer, Mark Cinkevich, María Iñigo Clavo, Maya Deren, Jacob Dreyer, Anna Engelhardt, Solveig Font, Kenny Fries, Coco Fusco, Orit Gat, Leo Goldsmith, Ana María Gómez López, Andrea González Garrán, Boris Groys, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Barbara Hammer, Dehlia Hannah, Isobel Harbison, Jörg Heiser, Yuk Hui, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Celia Irina González, Juan José Santos, Aubrey Knox, Hamlet Lavastida, Debra Lennard, Sophie Lewis, Julio Llópiz Casal, R.H. Lossin, Vijay Masharani, Azadeh Mashayekhi, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Artavazd Peleshyan, Sol Pérez-Martinez, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, Mila Samdub, Stephanie Sherman, Henk Slager, Jonas Staal, Bernard Stiegler, Thotti, Ina Valkanova, Elena Vogman, Pramodha Weerasekera, Evan Calder Williams, Virginia Woolf, and Gary Zhexi Zhang.
ISBN: 9772997195052 / Print ISSN: 2997-1950 / Digital ISSN: 2998-2359, March 2025. Printed in a limited edition in Porto.
Refreshments will be provided, and copies of e-flux Index will be available for purchase.
For more information, please contact program [at] e-flux.com.