The moment in which we enter into this discussion of academy, this moment now, is one that is suspended between a variety of concrete concerns. In continental Europe there are concerns about the forthcoming 'Bologna Accord' which aims at homogenising higher education across Europe and rationalising it in accord with the Anglo American model of several, more short term degrees with clear and comparable outcomes.

Prelude by Tirdad Zolghadr The following essay is based on a text originally commissioned for the Taipei Biennial 2010. The original essay addressed forms of higher education for artists; for different reasons, the artist PhD had become an important foil through which the Biennial's participating artists discussed the educational turn in the arts, and the democratic promise it tacitly upholds.

A survey including statements and sketches from 30 contributors Over the past two decades, Berlin's growth into an international art metropolis has brought many people to the city. A number of these imports teach art - seemingly in all other cities but Berlin.