- Exhibition catalog
Between Two Deaths
Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin (Eds.)
2007
© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Type of publication
- Exhibition catalog
- Author / Editor
- Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin (Eds.)
- Publishing house, place
- Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
- Physical Description
- 327 p. : numerous ill.
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2007
- ISBN
- 978-3-7757-2003-8
- Content
- »Between Two Deaths« presents a critical artistic reflection on the political, social, and cultural trend toward melancholic introspection. The effects can be felt everywhere: conservative cultural debates, insecurity, and lethargy are spreading. Key terms for this growing trend in contemporary art are neo-Romanticism, angst, horror, and neo-goth.
Featuring essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts, art historians, and sociologists on topics such as melancholy and melodrama in contemporary art, this publication does not reject this diagnosis, but challenges an affirmative attitude toward this situation while suggesting alternatives. An appendix with texts on the works included and brief biographies and bibliographies of each artist completes the volume.
Organization / Institution
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Artists
- Rita Ackermann
- Ulf Aminde
- Walead Beshty
- Martin Dammann
- Sue de Beer
- Harry Dodge
- Brock Enright
- Barnaby Furnas
- Luis Gispert
- Nan Goldin
- Dan Graham
- Nicolás Guagnini
- Elín Hansdóttir
- Stanya Kahn
- Jutta Koether
- Terence Koh
- Ján Mančuška
- Marlene McCarty
- John Miller
- Chloe Piene
- Adam Putnam
- Stephen G. Rhodes
- Kirstine Roepstorff
- Aïda Ruilova
- Florian Slotawa
- Javier Téllez
- Mark Titchner
- Ryan Trecartin
- Erik van Lieshout
- Jennifer West
- Charlie White
