Ovidiu Țichindeleanu Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Zet and the art of online shopping. The book, Zet Rack, is an autonomous outcome of the eponymous exhibition project, which we realised together with the artist Martin Zet and the architect Tomáš Svoboda at the beginning of 2022 at the NEVAN CONTEMPO Gallery in Prague. However, Martin's almost obsessive accumulation of various products, commodities and goods containing the word "Zet" in their name had started about three years earlier and therefore extended through many a lockdown. After all, it was during the pandemic that the vast majority of us had to rethink our relationship with the Internet and online shopping. Zet, however, appropriated "googling" and "online shopping" as a kind of creative method. In the book, whose conception and final form was also co-authored by graphic designer Marek Fanta and photographer Eva Rybářová, the other contexts and levels of meaning of his actions are unravelled in a series of texts by authors addressed by the artist, who hold some vastly different positions-entirely in the spirit of Zet's open and participatory approach to creation.

With this volume we would like to celebrate critically the importance of the Revolution of 1989, as a problem-event that cannot be worked out in any of the subsequent answers. The Revolution is set in local and global context, in the frontispiece of a genealogy of global history that opens at the end of the Cold War, and as the germinative moment of the cultural history of postcommunism. We would like to reopen the possibilities of understanding the event of the 1989 Revolution as a productive chasm between spectator and participant, as a constitutive act of the power relations between media technology, politics, and the public sphere of postcommunism. If “the truth of the Revolution will never be found out”, as it has often been claimed, this is because any revolution forces the limits of sense, challenging whole paradigms of thought and political apparatuses of capture, and in the “televised revolution” one can grasp precisely the constituting act of a new regime of truth.