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Edited by Ingvild Goetz, Rainald Schumacher, Larissa Michelberger
Mona Hatoum (born 1952) has established herself as a truly transnational artist: born in Beirut, and working in Berlin and London, her multimedia work explores the dangers inherent to the borderlines between nation and body. This multi-authored and richly illustrated publication reveals all of the different facets of the artist's career, from her overtly political performances of the 1980s to her later installations, photographs, sculptures and videos that examine the human body as a metaphor for oppression in a broader sense. Hatoum's unusual blend of Surrealism and Minimalism both seduces and repels: her endoscopic videos of her organs, blood-red lights, the crackling electricity of wired furniture and glowing globes, a variety of cages and the murderous possibilities of kitchen utensils present us with an alienating intimacy that questions our relationship to our bodies and to the world.
Rosemarie Trockel
Essays by Josefina Ayerza, Lynne Cooke, Rainald Schumacher, and Stephan Urbaschek. Introduction by Ingvild Goetz and Rainald Schumacher.
Sculptural Sphere
The multi-dimensionality of our daily experiences is reduced by the television and internet media to the surface of a flat screen. Thus reality loses more and more of its spatial qualities, even as theoretical physicists develop increasingly sophisticated models to better understand the structures of time and space. As they employ an ever-growing number of dimensions in this endeavor, the mode of our sensual reception continues to become as flat and one-dimensional as the monitors of the computers at which we work. Throughout the history of art, sculpture has been prized as one of the foremost artistic expressions in western culture, one that employs far less illusionism than, for instance, painting. The works included in "Sculptural Sphere" are analyzed based on their spatial parameters. Their dimensions prove useful in defining the sculptural sphere that surrounds our bodies, as well as our reception of our multi-dimensional spatial environment.
Fast forward
In our accelerated era of "faster," "better," "farther," "higher," this comprehensive catalogue of the media art of the world-renowned Goetz Collection in Munich offers not only a survey of much of the most important film and video work to have been made over the last 15 years, but also a vision of how our habit of seeing and experiencing the world--in perpetual fast forward mode--has come out of our own cultural acceleration. The works brought together in this 532-page volume are at once an expression of and a reaction to the hyper-speed of our times. They span from the slow-motion images in David Claerbout's still life-like landscape portrait, Ruurlo, Bocurloscheweg 1910, to the rhythmic-dynamic disco tempo of Wolfgang Tillmans's Lights (Body). This superb collection includes videos, video installations and films by Matthew Barney, Olaf Breuning, Tracey Emin, Fischli & Weiss, Rodney Graham, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Sharon Lockhart, Sarah Morris, Raymond Pettibon, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Diana Thater and others.
Pawel Althamer
Time and again Pawel Althamer questions the limits of the art industry with his self-reflective or socially engaged work and initiates collective activities, which stimulate alternative practise and set creative and communicative processes in motion. Drawing on three major exhibitions held in the Ludwig Forum in 1992, 2010, and 2014, this catalogue documents Althamer's approach and way of working across more than two decades. The essential aspects of his projects are elaborated in five essays and an interview: play, participative practise, and multiple authorship.
Happy Birthday!
Die Sammlung Goetz umfasst zahlreiche Werke wichtiger Künstlerpersönlichkeiten. Zu ihrem 20-jährigen Bestehen öffnet sie ihre Archive und zeigt in eigens dafür eingerichteten Räumen ausgewählte Arbeiten etwa von Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Mária Bartuszová und George Segal. Dazu gehören Skulpturen, Gemälde, Collagen, Aquarelle und raumgreifende Installationen von den 1940er-Jahren bis zur Gegenwart. 0Exhibition: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (24.10.2013-04.2014). 0.
Larissa Takes Flight
Armed with a cardboard halo, Larissa is out to save humanity. Or to at least make sense of a world where snakes swallow boyfriends, closet monsters write memoirs, and the downtrodden seek counsel at a shoe store. This book is a novel-in-collage, each story a track in the album of Larissa's Life. Larissa Takes Flight is the third book from Teresa Milbrodt, author of Bearded Women: Stories, and the novel The Patron Saint of Unattractive People.
No More Lies, Alec Brock
Linda's cyber boyfriend is a fraud. Will she face the impostor she fell in love with now that she's dating the guy he was supposed to be?
