Ines Doujak : twisted language / editor, Ines Doujak ; texts, John Barker [and 15 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doujak, Ines, 1959- editor.

Barker, John, 1948- contributor.

Berríos, María, 1978- contributor.

What, How and For Whom (Organization), writer of preface.

Kunsthalle Wien, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doujak, Ines, 1959---Criticism and interpretation.

Doujak, Ines.

Pandemics in art.

Environmentalism in art.

Art et action sociale--Expositions.

Art et action sociale.

Œuvres multimédias (Art)--Expositions.

Œuvres multimédias (Art).

Environnementalisme dans l'art.

Artists' illustrated books.

bookworks.

Art and social action--Exhibitions.

Art and social action.

Multimedia (Art)--Exhibitions.

Multimedia (Art).

Artists' books.

livres de peintres.

Genre:

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

240 pages illustrations 24 cm

illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH/Kunsthalle Wien, [2024]

London : Sternberg Press, [2024]

Summary:

"A close examination of the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises through political and aesthetic strategies. In the context of Ines Doujak's exhibition Geistervölker, Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press publish a book that looks deeply into the artist's practice. In the exhibition, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW, the artist traced, in fragments, the origins of pandemics throughout history and linked them to a global economy that is based on logics of extraction facilitated by colonial legal mechanisms and late capitalism. These subjects have always been present in Doujak's works. Therefore, it felt crucial to have a book that allows several writers, theoreticians, and poets from different geographies to reflect on the political and aesthetic strategies that Doujak has been using during these past thirty years. The book is not a monograph nor a catalogue but rather a mosaic of texts in dialogue with Ines Doujak's Oeuvre, which engage with burning and urgent topics such as how we relate to the world around us and to each other." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith

Bestiary XX. Bested beast / Pedro G. Romero

Morning rite, 8. Sept. 1977 for friederike mayröcker / Ernst Jandl

At once naked and full of eyes : the Investigator and her myriad instigations / Maria Berrios

Economies of desperation / T.J. Demos

Silk purse out of a sow's ear / John Barker

Monumental instability / Danny Hayward

Every crisis is an opportunity a hymn to looting / "Matthew Hyland"

Summary of Lev Tolstoy's treatise What is art? / Alice Creischer

Glossary / John Barker

More life than life itself / Markus Wörgötter

Dear Ines, / Grace Samboh

"I try to address people that are not usually being addressed." Aspects of audience entanglement / Klaus Speidel

On skin / Pablo Lafuente

Transmission : a series of five podcasts on disease and pandemics in a distorted world / John Barker & Ines Doujak

Biographies.

Notes:

Title from spine.

Part of illustrative matter (39 leaves of plates) inserted throughout text.

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 1, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022, Kunsthalle Wien.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781915609328

1915609321

OCLC:

1382233934