zwischen zwei toden between two deaths
ZKM
12.05. – 19.08.2007
ZKM | Medienmuseum, Lichthof 8
between two deaths: the festival
11. – 12.05.2007
Participating Artists
between two deaths
Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin (Eds.)

Texts by Sonia Arribas/Howard Rouse, Ellen Blumenstein, Alain Ehrenberg, Felix Ensslin, Dan Graham/Robin Hurst, Mika Hannula, Eva Illouz, Doreet LeVitte Harten, John Miller, Laurence Rickels, André Rottmann, Slavoy Žižek

Catalogue contributions by the curators:

Ellen Blumenstein
Name your Desire (pdf)

Felix Ensslin
Between Two Deaths: From the Mirror to Repetition (pdf)

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 tendency in contemporary art are neo-romanticism, angst, horror, and neo-goth. Featuring essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts, art historians, and sociologists on such topics as melancholy and melodrama in contemporary art, this publication does not reject this diagnosis, but challenges an affirmative attitude toward this situation and suggests alternatives. An appendix with texts on the works shown and brief biographies and bibliographies of each artist completes the volume.


Literature in this theoretical context
General
Exhibitions in this context
Publications about the artists
between two deaths
Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin (Eds.)
English
Aprox. 328 p. aprox. 120 color images
21,3 x 26,9 cm, hardcover
€ 29,80 [D], CHF 48,–
ISBN 978-3-7757-2003-8
HatjeCantz, May 2007

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