FORMER WEST (2008–2016)
This online platform makes publicly accessible the FORMER WEST research trajectory (2008–2016) archive, including an extensive video-archive of lectures, interviews, research gatherings, seminars, and exhibitions.
FORMER WEST’s culminating phase (2014–2016), led to the major publication Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989, edited by Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh (2016), published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and MIT Press. The editors’ introduction “Editors’ Note: Formering the West” can be read here.