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With contributions from:
Allan deSouza, Andrea Geyer, Branden Koch, Carlos Motta, Catherine Sullivan, Dan Paz, Deborah Stratman, Doug Ashford, Gareth James, Iman Issa, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jesal Kapadia & Brian McCarthy, Kelly Kaczynski, Luis Camnitzer, Marjetica Potrč, Michelle Grabner, R.H. Quaytman, Raqs Media Collective, Ulrike Müller, Valerio Rocco Orlando.
Design and Layout by:
Dan Levenson
Shifter 19 : Proposals will be published in two volumes. The first is this newsprint publication launched in September 2012 at the New York Art Book Fair and the second, a reader, will be released in the summer of 2013.
In this first volume of Shifter 19 we have invited a small group of artist- educators to each contribute a “proposal.” The proposals loosely gathered here will build a framework for a more detailed deliberation on art and education in the second volume of this issue.
Shifter’s 18th issue considered the temporality of intention as a prior condition for action—an impetus that is often understood only after an action has already been performed and is then reformulated and narrativized in one’s consciousness. We see the proposal as an embodied form of intention that often requires collaboration in order to be realized, trusting in another’s willingness to extend and enact one’s desire. When a proposal enters into a social contract, its pulsating potential constitutes the conditions of possibility for alternate ways of thinking and acting. When you propose you also expose the terms of your relationship with another, in turn making yourself vulnerable, awaiting, anticipating the utterance of the other. You initiate an exchange that couples power and intimacy. A proposal in this sense is a speech act that establishes a social form for desire in advance of its fulfillment. Thus, the knot of intention and desire, embodied in the proposal creates the conditions for the realization of an idea through negotiation and collaboration.
