“Kim Docs” is a digital quarterly magazine. Its first issue is dedicated to the question of audiences. Many questions will pass through the scrolling pages. Who exactly is the contemporary art audience ? What does it mean for an institution to create its audience or, to make the question more interesting, how do audiences create institutions and influence programming and the scene itself? What choices does an audience have while being entangled by the artistic realm, capital, curatorial frameworks, state, etc. into this gallery-museum-capital-state-complex of contemporary art? Who are we, the contemporary art audiences in the great new world who not only declare “the end of politics” is “after the nature” , announce that “we have never been modern” , “we have never been human” or “we have never been only human” , inhuman, posthuman ?
“Kim Docs” is a digital quarterly magazine. Its first issue is dedicated to the question of audiences. Many questions will pass through the scrolling pages. Who exactly is the contemporary art audience ? What does it mean for an institution to create its audience or, to make the question more interesting, how do audiences create institutions and influence programming and the scene itself? What choices does an audience have while being entangled by the artistic realm, capital, curatorial frameworks, state, etc. into this gallery-museum-capital-state-complex of contemporary art? Who are we, the contemporary art audiences in the great new world who not only declare “the end of politics” is “after the nature” , announce that “we have never been modern” , “we have never been human” or “we have never been only human” , inhuman, posthuman ?