Eva Birkenstock Bücher

The first ever survey of the pioneering feminist artist A comprehensive catalog on the work of New York artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014), Ways of Attaching provides an overview of the artist's work, moving from early conceptual experiments of the late 1960s through to textile sculptures and drawings made in the early 1970s, before focusing on propositional and durational performances and temporary monuments made from 1977 to 1982. Highlighting Mayer's formal interest in draping, knotting and tethering, Ways of Attaching focuses on the artist's process of constructing real and imagined networks and constellations, in which friends and historical figures feature in expressions of affinity and attachment. It additionally features facsimile reproductions of Mayer's writings and newly commissioned essays reflecting on her work and the influences of astronomy, feminism, the art scene in New York in the 1960s and '70s, poetry, religion and Renaissance painting.

Das Buch entfaltet einerseits Grundprobleme des heute aktuellen Themas des Alterns anhand philosophiehistorischer Stationen, andererseits vertieft es die in ihnen präsenten ethisch-praktischen Fragen. In antiken Texten treten zwei unterschiedliche Sichtweisen zu Tage, die auch gegenwärtige Altersbilder noch prägen. Das Alter wird ambivalent erfahren, sowohl als Verfallsprozess und folglich als Negation des Strebens nach Glück, als auch als Abschlussphase, die sinnvoll in ein Konzept gelingenden Lebens integriert werden muss. Von hier gehen zwei Fluchtlinien aus, die pessimistische Altersbilder ebenso durchziehen wie zuversichtliche Prognosen über lebenslanges Lernen. Dem Begriff der Verantwortung kommt insofern besondere Bedeutung zu, als das historisch neue Phänomen der weitgehend gesicherten und erweiterten Lebenszeit eine allen Aspekten individuellen wie demographischen Alterns gerecht werdende Gestaltung notwendig macht.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang's artistic journey is deeply influenced by her nomadic life across cultures, beginning in Chengdu and extending through various European cities. This comprehensive monograph explores her multimedia work, which integrates themes of class, gender, and cultural identity. Richly illustrated, it showcases her diverse artistic practices, including painting, video, and performance. Contributions from fellow artists and essays delve into her narrative techniques and the interplay of East Asian and Western art histories, highlighting her focus on identity and political imagery.

Premiered in St. Petersburg in 1913, and written in “zaum”--a Russian Futurist nonsense language-- Victory over the Sun was a vastly ambitious opera, a collaboration between the poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh, the composer and painter Mikhail Matyushin and the painter Kazimir Malevich (who made his legendary “Black Square” painting for the work). Anfang Gut. Alles Gut. documents a longterm project by an ever-expanding group of artists, musicians, architects and writers who, since 2008, have worked with the opera’s historical documentation and reception history to translate this mythic gesamtkunstwerk into the present. Katrin Bahrs, Thomas Baldischwyler, Tschilp, Nine Budde, Natalie Czech, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Kirsten Forkert, Emma Hedditch and Elizabeth Orr, Fox Hysen and Susanne M. Winterling, Heiko Karn and Katrin Mayer, Nicholas Matranga, Ruth May and Michaela Melián are among the many artists contributing to the book.

Als erster Band Der Reihe erscheint On Performance, der das Performanceprojekt, das im Winter 2010/11 in der KUB Arena stattfand, nicht nur dokumentiert, sondern sich in Essays grundlegend mit der Theorie und Geschichte der Performance auseinandersetzt.