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The Cleanest Race
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime’s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country’s official myths in turn—from the notion of Koreans’ unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of “the Iron General.” In a concise but groundbreaking historical section, Myers also traces t...
Making Prints and Thinking About It
The book presents the entire graphic works of the artist Jan Svenungsson, who has been responsible Graphics and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2011, accompanied by a text that seamlessly combines practical information, stories and speculations in an entertaining way. His overarching objective is to critically discuss the meaning of graphic prints in contemporary art, and more specifically: to illuminate the role of single-handedly "making" them - at a time when the conditions for exercising creativity are undergoing rapid change: What are the implications of the tools the artist selects? What does authenticity mean in today's art? How does the role of the artist change when he makes himself dependent on artificial intelligence?
Art Intelligence
Artists always react to the times in which they live. They may celebrate them or criticize them, often trying to change them. But this is the first time in history that technology controlled by private companies is offering to replace the work of writers, musicians, illustrators and visual artists. What impact will generative AI have on how we create art and how we understand what art is for? How will it affect the role of the artist in the future and the conditions under which artists will work? Jan Svenungsson tackles these questions, investigating what AI might do for art, and what it might change, circling the core issue of what it is in human art-making that cannot be replaced.
Monument and Memory
A century after the World War I, studies on the politics of memory and commemoration have grown into a vast and vital academic field. This book approaches the theme "monument and memory" from architectural, literary, philosophical, and theological perspectives. Drawing on diverse sources - from Augustine to Freud, from early photographs to contemporary urban monuments - the book's contributors probe the intersections between memory and trauma, past and present, monuments and memorial practices, religious and secular, remembrance and forgetfulness. (Series: Nordic Studies in Theology / Nordische Studien zur Theologie - Vol. 1) [Subject: Philosophy, Religious Studies, History]
To Understand What Is Happening. Essays on Historicity
The volume deals with historical ontology from several angles: the historicity of understanding (Françoise Dastur, Arbogast Schmitt, Samuel Weber), the limits of making (Emil Angehrn, Nicholas Davey, Jan-Ivar Lindén) and the future of memory (Jayne Svenungsson, Christoph Türcke, Bernhard Waldenfels).
Intellectual Birdhouse
Artistic practices are manifold and highly diverse. In recent years, a claim towards research has become meaningful to many practitioners of art. Intellectual Birdhouse gives room to a number of acteurs to unfold their attitudes towards this claim.In this book, 'artistic research' is assumed as being independent of 'discipline', with the potential to occur in all contexts once epistemological expectations have shifted.This approach foregrounds questions concerning the type of models, terms and concepts that elucidate the processes and outcomes of epistemic-artistic practices while recalling theoretical debates steeped in tradition.Intellectual Birdhouse contains contributions from artists such as Renée Green and Hito Steyerl, and from writers/theorists such as Sarat Maharaj and Tom Holert.
Unzeitgemäße Techniken
Künstlerische Verfahren entstehen und verschwinden. Dieser historische Wandel gilt als wesentlicher Motor für eine Entwicklung der Künste. Nicht selten jedoch wird ein altes Wissen um frühere Herstellungsprozesse wiederentdeckt, bewusst reaktiviert und dadurch erneuert. Mit dem Interesse an unzeitgemäßen Techniken bilden sich historische Narrative heraus, die die Wahrnehmung und Deutung von Kunst beeinflussen. Ausgehend vom frühen Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwartskunst widmet sich dieser Band den technischen Anachronismen, durch die Traditionen gebildet, aber auch durchkreuzt werden.
Artistic Research
Advanced art education is in the process of developing research programs throughout Europe. What does the term research actually means in the practice of art? What is the relation to the scientific methods of alpha, beta or gamma sciences, directed toward knowledge production and the development of a certain scientific domaine? What will be the influence of scientific research on the art forms?
Ein Künstler-Text-Buch
Die Anforderung an bildende Künstler, gut schreiben zu können, steigt gegenwärtig. Die praktische Einweisung in das Schreiben innerhalb der Kunstausbildung wird aber heute von Theoretikern dominiert. Diese Umstände können ziemlich problematisch und mit ernsthaften Konsequenzen für die Unabhängigkeit der bildenden Künstler verbunden sein. Als bildender Künstler mit besonderer Affinität zu Sprache und Schreiben ist Jan Svenungsson dieser Problematik häufig begegnet und hat sie innerhalb verschiedener Lehrsituationen bearbeitet. Das vorliegende Buch verfolgt mehrere Absichten:- Auf vielen Textbeispielen basierende Analyse unterschiedlicher Haltungen von schreibenden Künstlern. - Praktische, auf eigener Erfahrung beruhende Tipps fürs Schreiben. - Auseinandersetzung mit exemplarischen Textprojekten der Künstler Giorgio de Chirico, Jyrki Siukonen, David Hockney und Adrian Piper. - Erörterung der Spezifika von Künstler-Texten und ihrer besonderen Qualitäten.
