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Josephine Meckseper (Hardcover)
Heike Munder, Sylvere Lotringer, Hooper Rachel
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In her photography, videos and installations, Josephine Meckseper
(born 1964) sets images of political activism-photographs of
demonstrations, newspaper cuttings-against twinkling consumer goods
and advertising motifs. This publication concentrates on a new
series of works, such as the installation "Ten High" (2007) in
which silver mannequins bear anti-war slogans
The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the early 1980s and its
subsequent rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in
society. The illness itself and its effects on society have also
caused manifold responses by artists and activists in many
countries. United by AIDS, published in conjunction with an
extensive group show on the topic of loss, remembrance, activism
and art in response to HIV/AIDS at Zurich's Migros Museum of
Contemporary Art (Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst), sheds light
on the multi-faceted and complex interrelation between art and
HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. It examines the blurred
boundaries between art production and HIV/AIDS activism and
showcases artists who played - and still play - leading roles in
this discourse. Alongside images of artworks and brief texts on the
represented artists, the book features voices from the past and
present. Essays by Douglas Crimp, Alexander Garcia Duttmann,
Raphael Gygax, Elsa Himmer, Ted Kerr, Elisabeth Lebovici ,and Nurja
Ritter broaden the view of the international discourse on HIV/AIDS
and society's confrontation with the disease.
Born in London in 1943, Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual
art and has, over the course of more than five decades, created a
multi-faceted body of work. This new book, published in conjunction
with Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, focuses on two
key aspects of Willats' art. Cybernetics, the control of dynamic
systems, in which he has taken a keen interest, serves him as
method, aesthetic vocabulary, as well as a formal model.
Subcultures that promote non-conformism and self-determination
constitute another focal point in his wide-ranging work. The book
offers a new approach to Willats' art from multiple perspectives. A
comprehensive selection of both earlier and more recent works, some
of them published here for the first time, is complemented by
essays. The authors investigate that particular creative sphere in
between cybernetics, architecture, and subculture within which
Willats questions normative, regulating power structures and aims
to discover personal freedom and alternative thought patterns.
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