A Road Trip across the United States in Interviews and Photographs

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Contributeurs: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Sophie Calle, Julien Dossena, Études, Fishbach, Thomas Hauser, Hill & Aubrey, Greta Ilieva, Barbara Kasten, Stef Mitchell, Tom de Peyret, Adrian Samson, Surkin, Céline Sciamma, Nicole Maria Winkler

Little Warsaw: Rebels In the heady days following the fall of communism in Hungary, students at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts decided to take action. The student rebellion illustrates, in miniature, all the conflicts that abounded during this peri …

Today, the most clever brand communication is self-promulgating. Anyone currently working in brand communication is facing fundamental yet compelling challenges. In an age in which we are flooded with information, consumers are becoming more critical a …

Ordnungssysteme für Schrift. Kimberley Elam. Princeton Architectural Press 2006. Deutsch. 120 Seiten, 17,9 x 21,6 cm. 360 g. Broschur. 9781568985893. art-16074

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Das Bild zeigt eine grausame Szenerie: Weiße Männer posieren in Sonntagsstaat für die Kamera. Zwei von ihnen mit Siegerminen jeweils eine Hand an den Knöcheln eines Afroamerikaners, den sie offenbar gerade an einem Baum gehängt haben. Der Titel des Bil …

Im Jahr 2014 haben wir mit Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen und Helmut Weber) die Ausstellung »The Militant Image. Picturing What Is Already Going On, Or The Poetics of the Militant Image« sowie die gleichnamige Publikation produziert, inner …

Künstlerbuch im Zeitungsformat mit schwarz-weißen Abbildungen im Rollenoffsetdruck, gestaltet von Kay Bachmann mit Texten von Dietmar Dath und Britt Schlehahn (dt.) Zeitung, 32 Seiten, 40×57 cm, Auflage 5000 Erschienen 10/2017 ISBN 978-3-945111-42-0

These are times of post-truth, alternative facts and truthiness: at times it seems we are becoming fluent in Newspeak. But even as we have come to adapt to a more flexible view of reality, integrity, sincerity, truthfulness and authenticity remain consecrated ideals of selfhood. ‘Keep it real.’ ‘Stay true to yourself.’ ‘Be yourself.’ These truisms and tautologies have grazed many a coffee cup, self-help book and T-shirt, and they are a standard trope in TED Talks. Though we may cringe when we hear them, many of us have come to accept those corny phrases as conventional wisdom. But is there such a thing as a ‘real me’ or a ‘genuine self’? How does one live an authentic life? And is it possible to do so in fashion, an environment so wedded to the mood of the moment, so seemingly dependent on masks and masquerade, adopted when convenient and shed when no longer useful. Some might say that fashion and authenticity are antithetical: one the definition of the present ethos, the other the value of those who strive to prevail over it. Or so an existentialist, smoking in Les Deux Magots in 1946, would have posited. Only by overcoming the accepted norms imposed on us by our social institutions – family, education, religion, government – can an individual begin to live a truly authentic life. Today, philosophers prefer to think of authenticity as constructed and performed: we are selves upon selves upon selves. In 1981 Jean Baudrillard wrote about simulacra and simulation, meaning that we now have copies depicting things without an original. There is no more reality, only signs and symbols. Our experience of reality is only simulation; what it hides isn’t authenticity but that no such thing is needed for us to understand the world in which we live. Curiously, as philosophers debate the collapse of authenticity in a postmodern world, in consumer capitalism it has taken on a supreme importance: in fashion it’s the holy grail. Terms like ‘artisanal,’ ‘heritage,’ ‘craftsmanship’ and ‘storytelling’ have become buzzwords, and conglomerates are fond of referring to their offices as ‘campus’ and co-workers as ‘family.’ The further away we feel from those values, the more important they become it seems. We speak of ‘real clothes’ as opposed to ‘fashion,’ and ‘real people’ as opposed to models.

The Unframed Ellis Island project is about bringing alive the memory of Ellis Island, the entry point to America for millions of immigrants. Coming from all over the world, leaving their belongings, their family and their past behind them, with the fea …

For more than 25 years Martin Parr has been taking photographs in Scotland. From the streets of Glasgow to an island agricultural show in Orkney, Parr has built a huge archive of photographs. Now for the first time these images are to be published in t …

Das Werkverzeichnis, das gleichzeitig zur Eröffnung des bisher größten Ausstellungsprojekts des bedeutenden britischen Künstlers und Filmemachers Steve McQueen erschienen ist, bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in sein komplexes und außergewöhnliches Œuvre. Die Ausstellung, die zuerst im Art Institute of Chicago und anschließend in erweiterter Form im Schaulager in Basel zu sehen sein wird, umfasst Installations-, Foto- und Filmarbeiten aus allen Schaffensperioden. Detaillierte Analysen von namhaften Autoren werden das reich bebilderte Werkverzeichnis vervollständigen. In Steve McQueens Arbeiten ist der experimentelle Umgang mit Film stark ausgeprägt. Dazu kommt der Aspekt um das Ausloten der Grenzen zwischen dem Dokumentarischen und dem Erzählerischen, das sich in thematisch hoch differenzierten Werken niederschlägt. Steve McQueen (*1969 in London) wurde bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnet: 1999 erhielt er den Turner Prize, 2008 gewann er mit dem Spielfilm Hunger bei den Filmfestspielen von Cannes die Caméra d'Or. 2009 vertrat er Großbritannien bei der Biennale von Venedig, und 2011 nahm er mit seinem Film Shame am Wettbewerb der Internationalen Filmfestspiele Venedig teil. Sein Hauptdarsteller Michael Fassbender gewann dort die Auszeichnung als bester Schauspieler. Texte von James Rondeau, Okwui Enwezor, Jean Fisher, Georges Didi-Huberman; und ein Interview von Adrian Searle mit dem Künstler.