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Solution 186-195
Solution 186-195: Dubai Democracy is the fifth book in the Solution series. Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, author Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable. Niermann's Dubai will become as specialized as housing the global center for treating diabetes--called Sugar World--and as universal as offering non-confrontational public spaces where both a state of total advertising and compulsive kindness, or what he calls a "personal humaneness account," co-exist. Translation from the German by Gerrit Jackson
Ingo Niermann
Der in Berlin lebende Autor Ingo Niermann setzt sich mit dem Thema »Drill« auseinander. In diesem Notebook proklamiert er den selbstbestimmten Drill als eine neue gesellschaftliche Doktrin und gibt praktische Anleitungen. Drill könnte nach einer Ära von geöffneten und übertretenen Grenzen der nächste Schritt sein: die Freiheit, sich selbst zu zwingen. Zu diesem Zweck kann der Leser an vom Autor vorgeschlagenen Aktionen teilnehmen, etwa »Join the U.S. Army«, bei der man sich als Nicht-Amerikaner der US-Armee andient, oder auch sich dafür entscheiden, ein Jahr zu leben, als sei es das letzte. Die Krönung ist der Drill Palace, nach Vorbild von Cedric Price' unrealisiertem Fun Palace, in dem man an Drills teilnehmen, Drills entwickeln oder ihnen als Zuschauer beiwohnen kann. Ingo Niermann (*1969) lebt als Autor in Berlin. Chus Martínez (*1972) ist Mitglied der Agenten-Kerngruppe und Leiterin der Abteilung der dOCUMENTA (13). Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Solution 257
Ingo Niermann's provocative new novel imagines a Berlin alternative to the activist occupation of public spaces in 2011. The completists, gathered at Alexanderplatz, aspire for justice through intimacy. They believe that only when the redistribution of material wealth includes equal chances of finding sex and love—no matter how elderly, disabled, or ugly you are—communism will become real. This volume of the Solution series is a revolutionary erotic fiction. Karl, a freelance writer and young stay-at-home dad in Berlin, first dismisses the completists as a bunch of as fringe weirdos and burnouts. But over the course of one summer day, his outlook changes after a series of encounters both...
Solution 264-274
What is luxury? Anything that is not essential to life and that, once everyone has it, is rather annoying. —Solution 264, “Public Poverty” Having furnished solutions for Germany and Dubai, Ingo Niermann takes a new look at what nationhood can mean and accomplish today, finding inspiration, of all places, in North Korea. Now that the promise of global prosperity and abundance can technically be fulfilled, the time has come for a minimalist rethink of society. By relying on drills and a principle of reduction, the individual can be granted a freedom for experiences and ideas that are not possible otherwise. The more we simplify, the lighter the ballast we'll have to carry. The twelfth volume in the Solution series includes an account of Niermann's travels through North and South Korea, accompanied by the author's photographs. The eleven solutions in Solution 264–274: Drill Nation build from insights culled while on the trip. Published to coincide with the Real DMZ Project 2015, curated by Sunjung Kim and Nikolaus Hirsch Solution Series edited by Ingo Niermann
Solution 275-294
The members of Communists Anonymous (COMA) share an extreme sense of empathy and justice, and therefore detest more or less any form of private property. COMA members restrain themselves from any effort to overcome capitalism before there is a new convincing model at hand of how to actually implement communism. The speculative self-help of COMA understands the historical incarnations of communism as substantially incomplete in thought and practice, and places communism where it originated—in the realm of fiction. Only as fiction can communism manifest itself again beyond doubt. Solution 275–294: Communists Anonymous is a document of some imageries of communism and a testament to the curr...
Ingo Niermann
Der in Berlin lebende Autor Ingo Niermann setzt sich mit dem Thema »Drill« auseinander. In diesem Notebook proklamiert er den selbstbestimmten Drill als eine neue gesellschaftliche Doktrin und gibt praktische Anleitungen. Drill könnte nach einer Ära von geöffneten und übertretenen Grenzen der nächste Schritt sein: die Freiheit, sich selbst zu zwingen. Zu diesem Zweck kann der Leser an vom Autor vorgeschlagenen Aktionen teilnehmen, etwa »Join the U.S. Army«, bei der man sich als Nicht-Amerikaner der US-Armee andient, oder auch sich dafür entscheiden, ein Jahr zu leben, als sei es das letzte. Die Krönung ist der Drill Palace, nach Vorbild von Cedric Price' unrealisiertem Fun Palace, in dem man an Drills teilnehmen, Drills entwickeln oder ihnen als Zuschauer beiwohnen kann. Ingo Niermann (*1969) lebt als Autor in Berlin. Chus Martínez (*1972) ist Mitglied der Agenten-Kerngruppe und Leiterin der Abteilung der dOCUMENTA (13). Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
The Future of Art
In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world. Includes the DVD The Future of Art by Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermann (HD, 157 min.). Contributors Thomas Bayrle, Olaf Breuning, Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Olafur Eliasson, Harald Falckenberg, Boris Groys, Damien Hirst, Gregor Jansen, Terence Koh, Gabriel von Loebell, Marcos Lutyens, Philomene Magers, Antje Majewski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Olbricht, Friedrich Petzel, and Tobias Rehberger; and commentary by Chus Martínez
Solution 1-10
After the end of the Second World War, the Federal Republic of Germany wanted to avoid a national "special path" at all costs. Even those who, since reunification, have called for a new patriotism merely mean to accomplish Germany's perfect normalization as a Western democracy. What they call for is not a profession of specifically German values but an abstract love for the country in which people happen to have been born and grown up. But now, as globalization advances and China rises to become the world's greatest economic power, the West's very existence is at stake. The union between democracy and prosperity has been broken; democracy is no longer the indubitably most effective evil. To ...
Finland
Welcome to Finland, a young land of rapid aging, where newly founded institutions are already outmoded and geographic impediments are a constant crippling agent. As part of Ingo Niermann's Solution Series, Solution Finland: The Welfare Game by architect Martti Kalliala with writer and curator Jenna Sutela and architect Tuomas Toivonen, addresses the Nordic country's numerous predicaments. The three authors offer readers eight and a half solutions to their native country's quandaries, ranging from the absurd (the implementation of fiction-mongering emissaries to boost tourism) to the earnest, if far-reaching (the repurposing of the country to host nuclear waste). Solution Finland elucidates the northern country's modern history as a nation under construction, proposing that its identity remain a malleable myth, in which designing a more tenable future is the conduit for crucial adaptation. Solution Series edited by Ingo Niermann
Solution 196-213
Solution 196-213: United States of Palestine-Israel is an anthology of texts proposing a doable solution for the region. With contributors based in Ramallah and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Beirut and Jerusalem, New York and Bethlehem, Nazareth and Warsaw, the book offers solutions that will make life better, and proposes ways to do it. "Solution" is a tricky term especially in relation to the ongoing newspeak of the last two decades in Palestine-Israel. In their contributions for this book, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Eyal Weizman suggest revisiting the term "decolonization," "in order to maintain a distance from the current political terms of a 'solution' to the Palestinian conflict and its resp...
