ENCORE! ENCORE!

For all you youngsters who won't remember, 1992 was the year of the Post Human--at least according to Jeffrey Deitch's landmark exhibition of that name. At the Castello di Rivoli from October 17 to January 13, Deitch updates "Post Human" themes with "Form Follows Fiction." Watch out for recollapsing boundaries (between reality and illusion, high and low, past and future) as well as work by Amy Adler, Olafur Eliasson, Matthieu Laurette, and others. Basel's Museum fur Gegenwartskunst will also be busy taking stock this fall--surveying the photographs of uber-recyclist Richard Prince, in a show comprising some seventy prints from the late '70s to the present (Dec. 8-Feb. 24). In contrast, Maria Eichhorn's work doesn't lend itself easily to the retrospective format: Her interventions in social and economic situations--selling secondhand oddments to fund a refurbishment program or handing out free rail tickets at Leipzig's central station--are essentially site-specific and unrepeatable. Hence, the Kunsthalle Bern is billing Eichhorn's one-woman show as a "surprise"; all will be revealed on October 27 (through Dec. 9).

At London's Institute of Contemporary Arts from November 23 to January 13, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno join forces with architect Francois Roche and graphics team M/M to revisit a topic that surely counts as a grand Continental tradition: the relationships between architecture and contemporary urban culture. There'll be much rewinding (and fast-forwarding) at the Kunsthalle Wien's capacious new premises from October 20 to January 6, in "Tele(visions)," an examination of artists as (re)viewers and reprogrammers of the boob tube. An epic checklist of exhibitors ranges from senior producers including Louise Lawler, Martha Rosier, and Allan McCollum to the whiz kids of the satellite and digital-TV generation: Art Club 2000, Daniel Pflumm, Candice Breitz, and others. Interference is likely, so do not adjust your set. And despite its title, the two-venue show "Futureland" promises to look as far back as forward, revealing strands of gloomy retrospection and off-color nostalgia in contemporary art's Utopian fantasies: Artists include Christian Jankowski, Grazia Toderi, and Aernout Mik (Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg in Monchen gladbach, Germany, and Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, the Netherlands, Sept. 23-Jan. 6).