TransAct gathers some 70 contributions ? artistic
works and texts ? by international artists, intellectuals, and scientists. Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field
emerged as a reaction on the political situation of Austria in the year 2000. Contributors articulated a protest against the
government participation of Jörg Haider’s populist right-wing party FPÖ as well as a statement against cultural isolation.
The top-class series featuring contributions by John Baldessari, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Christian Boltanski, Pierre
Bourdieu, Günter Brus, Douglas Gordon, Alexander Kluge, Oswald Oberhuber, Lawrence Weiner, Slavoj Žižek, and many others was
curated by Cathrin Pichler and implemented by the internationally renowned Vienna based art club museum in progress.
Published as series in the daily paper Der Standard in 2000/2001, the contributions are now presented as a historical documentation
in book form. Against the backdrop of political conditions in Europe, many texts and works are as relevant as they were ten
years ago.
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