dOCUMENTA - Buchhandlung Walther König

Published on the occasion of
dOCUMENTA (13) – Edited by
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev:
Dora García.
Mad Marginal #3
KLAU MICH
Forew. by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
& Jolanda Romero. Essays
by Claire Bishop,Ellen Blumenstein,
Eva Fabbris, Chus Martinez
& Carmen Roll. Cologne 2012. 216
S. mit Abb., brosch. – Text in dt.,
engl. & span. Sprache.
The third in a trilogy of Mad Marginal
books that corresponds to a
trilogy of works, dealing with the
issue of marginality as artistic position
and the notion of „outsider
art.“ If in the first cahier the focus
was on how the antipsychiatric
movement, especially in Trieste,
triggered different artistic and
political positions in Europe and
South America (featuring authors
such as Peter Pàl Pelbart and
Franco Rotelli), the second cahier
dealt mainly with more formal
aspects of visual arts and literature
in relation to the notion of margin
(with authors such as Cesare
Pietroiusti, François Piron, Pierre
Bal-Blanc). This third MM#3,
KLAU MICH (this name is taken
from an episode of the Berlin student
revolution in the 1960s, meaning:
grab me, catch me, arrest me)
is a celebration of freedom in the
arts, or, the impossibility, in spite
of everything, of censorship. The
book (which will be published in
September) will be produced in
parallel to Garcia’s project for
dOCUMENTA (13) and will use
images of the project. Historical
texts and commissioned texts, some
of them by the artist, and texts generated
during the project (letters,
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comments of the participants, transcripts
of conversations) will comprise
the contents. With fragments
of texts from two historical books,
the original „Klau Mich“ and „Die
Unfähigkeit zu trauern: Grund -
lagen kollektiven Verhaltens.“
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Theaster Gates.
12 Ballads for
Huguenot House
Forew. by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
& Madeleine Grynsztejn.
Texts by Michael Darling & Matthew
Day Jackson. Interview by
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Cologne
2012. 128 S. mit 104 (103 farb.)
Abb., brosch.
In his „12 Ballads for Huguenot
House“, Theaster Gates chronicles
his ambitious project to unite two
disused buildings – one in Chicago
and the other in Kassel, Germany
– by dismantling parts of each to
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