World Food Books

Speculations on Anonymous Materials
Edited by Susanne Pfeffer

2018, English / German
Softcover, 502 pages, 29.6 x 22.2 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

$75.00 - Out of stock

Speculations on Anonymous Materials for the first time worldwide brings together approaches in international art that reinterpret the anonymous materials created by rapid and incisive technological change.

Art’s brief is no longer to generate unique, original images, but to seek reflection in a desubjectivized approach to the existing stocks of objects, images and spaces nature after nature presents artistic works using materials that surround us and constitute nature.

Differentiations between synthetic and organic, manmade and natural are rejected. The exhibition demonstrates a nature after nature that, in its complex, global transformations, can only be grasped in fragments.

A nature that disassociates itself from an idealized and ideologized term and must be considered anew. Inhuman offers visions of the human being as a socially trained yet resistant body, transcending biologically or socially determined gender classifications, as a digitally immortal entity, or as a constantly evolving self. They visualize the constructs that define what is human and shift existing perspectives on them.

Published retrospectively after the exhibition, Speculations on Anonymous Material at Fridericianum, Kassel, 29 September 2013 – 26 January 2014.

English and German text.

Artists:
Michele Abeles, Ed Atkins, Alisa Baremboym, Juliette Bonneviot, Björn Braun, Dora Budor, Nina Canell, Alice Channer, Simon Denny, Nicolas Deshayes, Aleksandra Domanović, David Douard, Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers, Jana Euler, Cécile B Evans, GCC, Melanie Gilligan, Sachin Kaeley, Josh Kline, Oliver Laric, Sam Lewitt, Jason Loebs, Tobias Madison, Marlie Mul, Katja Novitskova, Ken Okiishi, Johannes Paul Raether, Jon Rafman, Magali Reus, Pamela Rosenkranz, Nora Schultz, Timur Si-Qin, Avery Singer, Trisha Baga, & Jessie Stead Ryan Trecartin Anicka Yi

Authors:
Stacy Alaimo, Kirsty Bell, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Antoine Catala, Andrew Durbin, Yuk Hui, David Joselit, Josh Kline, Jean-François Lyotard, Flora Lysen, Tobias Madison, Katja Novitskova, Jussi Parikka, Susanne Pfeffer, Gregor Quack, Pamela Rosenkranz, Susanne M. Winterling

File under: Michele Abeles Ed Atkins Alisa Baremboym Juliette Bonneviot Björn Braun Dora Budor Nina Canell Alice Channer Simon Denny Nicolas Deshayes Aleksandra Domanović David Douard Kerstin Brätsch Debo Eilers Jana Euler GCC Melanie Gilligan Sachin Kaeley Josh Kline Oliver Laric Sam Lewitt Jason Loebs Tobias Madison Marlie Mul Katja Novitskova Ken Okiishi Johannes Paul Raether Jon Rafman Magali Reus Pamela Rosenkranz Nora Schultz Timur Si-Qin Avery Singer Trisha Baga Cécile B. Evans Stacy Alaimo Kirsty Bell Franco “Bifo” Berardi Antoine Catala Andrew Durbin Yuk Hui David Joselit Josh Kline Jean-François Lyotard Flora Lysen Tobias Madison Katja Novitskova Jussi Parikka Susanne Pfeffer Gregor Quack Pamela Rosenkranz Susanne M. Winterling Koenig Books / London Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Theory / Essay Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
ISSUE NO. 112 / DECEMBER 2018 "NOISE/SILENCE"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

$32.00 - Out of stock