Forget Fear. 7th Berlin Biennale

This book is a reader of the current Berlin Biennale and a manifesto.Artur Zmijewski writes in his foreword: "This publication is a report on the process of arriving at real action within culture, at an artistic pragmatism. What interested us were concrete activities leading to visible effects. We were interested in finding answers, not asking questions. We were interested in situations in which solutions are implemented responsibly. We were interested neither in preserving artistic immunity nor distancing ourselves from society. We consider politics to be among the most complex and difficult of human activities. We met artists, activists, and poli- ticians who engage in substantive politics through art. The book is the result of our encounters with those people."

Text and Interviews by Pawel Althamer, Gábor Bakos, Yael Bartana, Daniel Blatman, Einar Örn Benediktsson, Christian Boltanski, Galit Eilat, Julián García, Jón Gnarr, Jan Tomasz Gross, Jerzy Hausner, Péter Juhász, Gideon Levy, Renzo Martens, Antanas Mockus, Joanna Mytkowska, Luis Ospina, den Pixadores, Srda Popovic, Alison Ramer, Dorota Sajewska, Árpád Schilling, Marcin Sliwa, Igor Stokfiszewski, Hans-Christian Täubrich, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Fernando Vallejo, the artist group Voina und Rafal Zurek and a CD by Teresa Margolles.