"Arbeit essen angst": Kokerei Zollverein. (Essen).(Brief Article) From: Artforum International | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Fricke, Harald | COPYRIGHT 2002 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

More and more, art addresses the human and economic conditions of society. Since the G8 summit in Genoa, there have been efforts to formulate a viable basis for critiquing globalization in cultural as well as economic terms. This trend remains unchanged by the events of September 11; indeed, the crisis of a world defined by economic dependencies has become all the more visible.

Up until the '90s, the building housing the Kokerei Zollverein was used to process coal. Then ...