Art Margins: Volume 15, Issue 2

This issue of ARTMargins presents texts that navigate past and present confrontations with instances of entrenched political power. In some cases, these navigations reflect the authors’ critical analysis of their own experiences and positionality, a necessary step in shaping modes of resistance. In other cases, the complex functions of past, and supposedly monolithic, regimes—be they colonial or state socialist—are recovered through careful attention to the exercise of artistic agency within them.

In this issue:

- The Decolonial Contradiction: German Proscription and the Necessities of Refusal -Zoé Samudzi 
- Socialist Realism: Foundations and in Flux - Tobias Rosen, Anna Pronina
- Time after Time: Temporalities of a Socialist Realism in a Former East Berlin Neighborhood - Gregory Gan
- MANIFESTO: Five-Year Plan (2021–2025) - MANIFESTO Collective
- Figurative in Form, Political in Content: On Recent Reassessments of Global Socialist Realism - Ksenya Gurshtein 
- From “Moorishness” to Uzbek Socialist Realist Architecture: An Introduction to “25 Years of Creative Work of Soviet Architects of Uzbekistan” 1 - Anna Pronina
- 25 Years of Creative Work of Soviet Architects of Uzbekistan - Boris Zasypkin, Anna Pronina