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Marina Abramovic: That Self / Our Self
Marina Abramović fascinates her international audience with performances, films and, most recently, her opera project 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. Following in the tradition of European mysticism, over the past five decades this pioneer of performance art has developed an undogmatic individual approach to the transcendent that expands the religious traditions by adding elements of shamanism, alchemy and Buddhism. The exhibition in the Kunsthalle Tübingen curated by Nicole Fritz in close collaboration with Marina Abramović and her studio is the first to be devoted to the spiritual aspects of the artist's work by means of a selection of her major works.The accompanying catalogue brings together interdisciplinary essays, authored by a range of subject experts, which provide new insights into the artist's work. Exhibition: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany (24.07.2021 - 13.02.2022).
Daniel Knorr
Material culture and biopolitics: on Daniel Knorr's multimedia explorations of the politics of things Romanian artist Daniel Knorr's (born 1968) eclectic oeuvre includes photography, sculptural installation and performance. The artist, who lives in Berlin and Hong Kong, is known for deploying materials such as cocaine and smoke to explore political and theoretical topics. This monograph addresses Knorr's analysis of social issues and the art system itself.
Christoph Knecht
Between Cat Content and Middle-Class Realism: Collecting, Sampling, and Mixing Symbols. Painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation comprise the work of Christoph Knecht (born 1983 in Karlsruhe; lives and works in Dusseldorf). The motifs of his works are multifaceted and disparate; the age of meta-narratives seems bygone. As a representative of the younger generation of digital natives, the artist is guided by this notion. Knecht's wide-ranging selection of motifs reflects the will to cognize: he unravels signs, explores ideas of cultural belonging, and pushes toward engagement by reiterating and modifying symbolisms. The series Plant of Opportunities shows amorphous plant people that eve...
Almost Alive: Hyperrealistic Sculpture in Art
From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, different sculptors became involved with a mode of realism based on the physically lifelike appearance of the human body. By deploying traditional techniques of modelling, casting and painting in order to recreate human figures they follow different approaches towards a contemporary form of figural realism. The sculptures show how the way we see our bodies has been subject to constant change. The publication presents artworks of all important representatives of Hyperrealism. From the early pioneers like George Segal, Duane Hanson and John DeAndrea this comprehensive selection demonstrates how Hyperrealistic sculptures continuously developed up to the current stars of the movement like Ron Mueck, Sam Jinks, Evan Penny, Tony Matelli, and Patricia Piccinini.
Mariella Mosler - Mimikry mit Ornament
The art of Mariella Mosler (b. 1962, lives and works in Hamburg) operates on the boundary between autonomous sculpture and sitespecific interior ornamentation. She deftly quotes from a wide array of visual idioms ranging from baroque decorum to the airbrushed aesthetic of pop art, from primitivism to the paradigms of modernism. Mosler manufactures arabesques out of fruit gum; ties human hair in intricately shaped knots; pours sand to make reliefs; or creates floor mosaics out of hundreds of pounds of nonpareils. She plays with the ornamental appeal of surfaces and employs highly unusual materials that are familiar from other contexts but now seem strange. The banal suddenly strikes us as exq...
Confronting Global Neoliberalism
With the world’s attention fixed on the travails of leading global economies due to a still unfolding financial crisis of gigantic proportions, there has been a studied silence on the fate of the third world as the malaise increasingly impacts it. This silence is particularly disturbing because questions of potential pitfalls in the neoliberal policy package, which the third world (unlike Western Europe and Japan) was largely forced to adopt, were never countenanced. as One third world state after another discovered that international institutions were in effect hostile to their governments if they chose alternative developmental models or otherwise resisted the neoliberal triage of libera...
Global Justice and the Bulwarks of Localism: Human Rights in Context
The rise of international human rights during the last half of the twentieth century has transformed traditional notions of sovereignty. No longer is international law concerned almost exclusively with external relations among states and their representatives. Now, it imposes substantial restrictions on the domestic affairs of states and protects ordinary persons against mistreatment by their own government. The change came about in response to the Holocaust and the century’s other great tragedies. Few doubt its value. Nevertheless, power exercised in the name of human rights can be misused or abused. As human rights institutions matured, and as international organizations intervened more ...
Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy
All indications are that the prevention of terrorism will be one of the major tasks of governments and regional and international organisations for some time to come. In response to the globalised nature of terrorism, anti-terrorism law and policy have become matters of global concern. Anti-terrorism law crosses boundaries between states and between domestic, regional and international law. They also cross traditional disciplinary boundaries between administrative, constitutional, criminal, immigration and military law, and the law of war. This collection is designed to contribute to the growing field of comparative and international studies of anti-terrorism law and policy. A particular feature of this collection is the combination of chapters that focus on a particular country or region in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and overarching thematic chapters that take a comparative approach to particular aspects of anti-terrorism law and policy, including international, constitutional, immigration, privacy, maritime, aviation and financial law.
The International Criminal Court and Africa
This book considers the legal and political dimensions of the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa, looking at the role of the European Union, African Union, and African diplomacy on the issue of sovereignty and impunity for international crimes.
Cato Supreme Court Review, 2005-2006
Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court from a Madisonian perspective.
