
After the first venue at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe the exhibition »Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts« will open at the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin.
“Synthetic images as an answer to Auschwitz” (“We Shall Survive in the Memory of Others”) asserted Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) forcefully in an interview shortly before his death. Only by passing through radical abstraction could a new concretization, and thus a new and exciting life become imaginable: With this, post-history would begin. Flusser proactively took up the challenge of rethinking the arts, in the face of the fact that our existence is essentially determined by technology. To connect the methods of science with a new understanding of culture is the key concern of his special anthropology.
Flusser’s thought and texts were a continual experiment of living and surviving in the diaspora. When he was nineteen, he fled from his native Prague to England and then to Brazil, where he lived for thirty years. During the military dictatorship he returned to Europe, where he lived in the Italian provinces and Switzerland for a time, then in France for ten years. In the late 1980s, he became the star of media theory in Europe, with frequent appearances in the academic forums and arenas of Germany.
Wandering, without an academic discipline, and out of time in a twofold sense: Rather like a minimal obstacle course, the exhibition »Without Firm Ground – Flusser and the Arts« invites visitors to imagine the fugitive existence of Vilém Flusser as a model of the violent context we call the 20th century. Confronted with a past that had become unreal, Flusser met what characterized the beginning of the twenty-first century with heightened anticipation – through the arts and his writing.
Prelude
On November 18 at 7 pm, before the opening, there will be a prelude with Anthony Moore as well as a panel with Baruch Gottlieb, Daniel Irrgang and Siegfried Zielinski in dialogue with the artists.
- Exhibibitions team
- Baruch Gottlieb (Curator)
- Siegfried Zielinski (Curator)
- Peter Weibel (Co-Curator)
- Organization / Institution
- Akademie der Künste, Berlin and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Accompanying program
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- Wed, April 05, 2017
- Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts (GAMU, Prague)
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GAMU (Galerie AMU)
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- Sat, March 19, 2016
- Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts (West, The Hague)
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West
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- Thu, November 19, 2015
- Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts (Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
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Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
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- Wed, November 18, 20155 pm
- Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts (opening at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
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Opening
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
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- Sat, October 10, 20152 pm
- Im Bewegungsfluss mit Vilém Flusser
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Workshop
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien
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- Sun, October 04, 20152 pm
- Im Bewegungsfluss mit Vilém Flusser
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Workshop
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien
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- Fri, September 04, 20154 pm
- Überschreitungen – Kirche im ZKM
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Guided Tour
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien
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- Sat, August 15, 201511 am
- Guided tour with the curator and Flusser expert
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2
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- Fri, August 14, 20157 pm
- Without Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts (opening)
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Opening
Lichthof 2
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- Fri, August 14, 20152 pm
- GLOBALE: Flusser Talks
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Panel Discussion
Kubus
Documents
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Exhibition brochure »Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts«
Brochure of the exhibition »Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts«, August 15 – October 18, 2015