...This year again we are featuring with Camera Austria at numerous art shows; this year, however, we will not have access to such important markets as the frieze Art Fair in London and Art Basel. A thriving magazine market is apparently creating a necessity for new forms of selection, while continuity of appearance and consistency of contnent seem to be irrelevant. We must accept the fact that a project such as Camera Austria, that has developed its profile not only through close co-operation with international artists, but that also undoubtedly continuously and firmly represents the critical (and political) discourse in the form of media-critical and media-reflective work, is to have no place at the big art fairs any more. We think that this kind of de-politicisation is a questionable development: this not only almost completly subjects a social niche, that has so far been available for the development and dissemination of critical discourses, to the logic of the market, but equally creates chasm between institutions and events on the markets.

Christine Frisinghelli, June 2006.

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