GLOBALE: Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts

Guided tour with the curator and Flusser expert

Duration: 46:59
Category: Exhibition
Date: 15.08.2015
Description: Baruch Gottlieb, the curator of the exhibition »Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts« as well as Flusser expert Marcel René Marburger guide the interested public through the exhibition.

“Synthetic images as an answer to Auschwitz” (“We Shall Survive in the Memory of Others”)1asserted 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.
Video Documentary:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media

Camera: Sarah Binder, Martina Rotzal, Christina Zartmann
Editing: Sarah Binder, Christina Zartmann