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Der documenta 14 Reader
Hauptpublikation zur documenta 14, der weltweit größten Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer Kunst - 2017 in Athen und Kassel! Als siebbedruckter Halbleinen-Band!
Der Reader oder das Lesebuch der documenta 14 erforscht in Essays Allegorien, Gedichten, historischen Dokumenten und anderen, hybriden literarischen Formen die diskursiven Anliegen der Ausstellung: Formen von Dekolonialität und Widerstand, Schuld und Geschenk, Entortung und Enteignung, Sprache und Gewalt, Indigenität und Exil.
Als kritische Anthologie, die Geschichte reflektiert, um einen klareren Blick auf die Gegenwart zu erhalten und die Zukunft neu zu entwerfen, versammelt der Reader eigens in Auftrag gegebene Beiträge und Wiederabdrucke wegweisender Texte.
Die Bildstrecken illustrieren den – zeitlich wie geografisch – weitgespannten Rahmen, der durch die historischen Positionen bei der documenta 14 gesteckt wird.
Das blaue Lesebändchen wurde gefertigt am MENTIS Center for the Preservation of Traditional Textile Techniques (MENTIS Zentrum für den Erhalt traditioneller Textiltechniken), das Teil des Benaki Museums in Athen ist. Ein Baumwollfaden wurde in einer von Aboubakar Fofana, einem Künstler der documenta 14, vorbereiteten Indigoküpe gefärbt und an den Maschinen, die das Museum von der Unternehmerfamilie Mentis als Schenkung erhalten hat und die heute in der Polyfimou-Straße 6 in Athen eine in Workshops weiterbetriebene "lebendige Museums-Manufaktur" bilden, zu einem Band gewebt.
Der Reader oder das Lesebuch der documenta 14 erforscht in Essays Allegorien, Gedichten, historischen Dokumenten und anderen, hybriden literarischen Formen die diskursiven Anliegen der Ausstellung: Formen von Dekolonialität und Widerstand, Schuld und Geschenk, Entortung und Enteignung, Sprache und Gewalt, Indigenität und Exil.
Als kritische Anthologie, die Geschichte reflektiert, um einen klareren Blick auf die Gegenwart zu erhalten und die Zukunft neu zu entwerfen, versammelt der Reader eigens in Auftrag gegebene Beiträge und Wiederabdrucke wegweisender Texte.
Die Bildstrecken illustrieren den – zeitlich wie geografisch – weitgespannten Rahmen, der durch die historischen Positionen bei der documenta 14 gesteckt wird.
Das blaue Lesebändchen wurde gefertigt am MENTIS Center for the Preservation of Traditional Textile Techniques (MENTIS Zentrum für den Erhalt traditioneller Textiltechniken), das Teil des Benaki Museums in Athen ist. Ein Baumwollfaden wurde in einer von Aboubakar Fofana, einem Künstler der documenta 14, vorbereiteten Indigoküpe gefärbt und an den Maschinen, die das Museum von der Unternehmerfamilie Mentis als Schenkung erhalten hat und die heute in der Polyfimou-Straße 6 in Athen eine in Workshops weiterbetriebene "lebendige Museums-Manufaktur" bilden, zu einem Band gewebt.
707 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Quinn Latimer
34 books23 followersQuinn Latimer is a California-born poet, critic, and editor whose work often explores feminist economies of writing, reading, and image production. Her books include Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (2017); Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder, coedited with Adam Szymczyk (2014); Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance (2013); Film as a Form of Writing: Quinn Latimer Talks to Akram Zaatari (2013); and Rumored Animals (2012). Her writings and readings have been featured widely, including at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Radio Athènes, Athens; the Poetry Project, New York; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and the Sharjah Biennial 13. Latimer was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She is currently faculty at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in Zurich, and, with Chus Martínez, runs a new feminist think tank at Institut Kunst, in Basel.
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June 26, 2017
Random notes of the provocative stimulating book. A guide? preamble? to Documenta 14, the art exhibition in Kassel and Athens, summer 2017. Should work on its own though, and does, as a work of art. Mixing art theory , political theory, meditative practice , fiction, poetry. Guidebook of how to see the world , take it and act.
Chapter by Lorey
On Benjamin:"the encounter between present and past , their "constellation " as he puts it, is always a " construction"...the task before us is to shape it in an emancipatory way."
By Pauline Oliveros
The Inner-Outer Sound Matrix
Choose text/listen inwardly for a word to express/ choose when and how to say this word-or not/ listen outwardly and choose a word or phrase from the selected text/ choose when and how to express that phrase- or not.../12 minute trajectory by either adding more and more silence between your performed sounds and/or words or less and less silence/ stop when your 12 minute trajectory is completed/the duration of the piece does not have to be measured/ the duration can be free.
Quote from Capital:" The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation."
How debt and gifting can be seen as undercurrent of Documenta. Both debt related to financial crisis ( Pound Canto on usury in chess society piece) and refugee crisis/ French man seeking he whose Gentile name saved in ( who then immediately seeks concrete reward Juste medal!). Interpersonal debt. What we owe others as reaction to displacement ( to a good neighbor)
"As Derrida pointed out, every archive contains the fire with which the memory of the other is destroyed." (Preciado)
Chapter by Lorey
On Benjamin:"the encounter between present and past , their "constellation " as he puts it, is always a " construction"...the task before us is to shape it in an emancipatory way."
By Pauline Oliveros
The Inner-Outer Sound Matrix
Choose text/listen inwardly for a word to express/ choose when and how to say this word-or not/ listen outwardly and choose a word or phrase from the selected text/ choose when and how to express that phrase- or not.../12 minute trajectory by either adding more and more silence between your performed sounds and/or words or less and less silence/ stop when your 12 minute trajectory is completed/the duration of the piece does not have to be measured/ the duration can be free.
Quote from Capital:" The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation."
How debt and gifting can be seen as undercurrent of Documenta. Both debt related to financial crisis ( Pound Canto on usury in chess society piece) and refugee crisis/ French man seeking he whose Gentile name saved in ( who then immediately seeks concrete reward Juste medal!). Interpersonal debt. What we owe others as reaction to displacement ( to a good neighbor)
"As Derrida pointed out, every archive contains the fire with which the memory of the other is destroyed." (Preciado)
Displaying 1 of 1 review