e-flux video rental (EVR) is a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprised of a free video rental store, a public screening room, and a film and video archive.

New York Conversations is a text film. Shot in a Chinatown storefront converted for this occasion into an improvised kitchen/restaurant, the film documents three days of public conversations between artists, critics, curators, and a free floating public. The talks, lunches, and dinners were organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nico Dockx, and Anton Vidokle in response to an invitation by Brussels-based art journal A Prior to be the subject of their new issue. Instead of commissioning essays or producing artwork to be printed in the journal, the artists decided to rethink the structure by which an art publication is produced and to attempt to do this discursively in a public setting.

With essays by Franco Berardi Bifo, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, and Hito Steyerl

with contributions by Adam Curtis / Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Gean Moreno, Hito Steyerl, Slavoj Žižek,
Alenka Zupančič.

This book focuses attention on the implications of the following undertaking: Can one be an artist without making anything that is easily defined as art even at a moment when nearly everything can be so designated?
(Engl.)