Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. From 1993-96, artist Rainer Ganahl held six reading seminars with six different bibliographies in six different countries and entitled this public project Imported—lA Reading Seminar, Or How to Reinvent the Coffee Table: 25 Books for Instant Use (7 Different National Versions). IMPORTED: A READING SEMINAR is an extension of that project and gathers together a collection of texts with the common theme of import. For this volume, Ganahl invited a series of authors who have an intimate relation with each country he visited to contribute texts or interviews addressing the consequences of (cultural) exchange, globalization, nationalism, multinationalism, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, tourism, languages, theory, desires, identity, and politics from a variety of perspectives.

The anthology includes texts by Julia Kristeva, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Zeigam Azizov, Lisa Adkins, Dan Bacalzo, Benjamin Buchloh, Karen Kelsky, Dana Leonard, Edward Soja, Victor Tupitsyn, Kojin Karatani, Sabu Kohso, Coco Fusco, Sylvère Lotringer, and Wulf Schmidt-Wulfen.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Rainer Ganahl was born in Austria and has been living in New York since 1990. His artistic work often deals with the forms and content of education and politics at the intersection of linguistic and class issues. His other books include Reading Karl Marx, Ortssprache &Local Language, Educational Complex, and Please, Write Your Opinions of U.S. Politics.