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Making Sense
Fiction is fascinating. All it provides us with is black letters on white pages, yet while we read we do not have the impression that we are merely perceiving abstract characters. Instead, we see the protagonists before our inner eye and hear their voices. Descriptions of sumptuous meals make our mouths water, we feel physically repelled by depictions of violence or are aroused by the erotic details of sexual conquests. We submerge ourselves in the fictional world that no longer stays on the paper but comes to life in our imagination. Reading turns into an out-of-the-body experience or, rather, an in-another-body experience, for we perceive the portrayed world not only through the protagonis...
Senses
The essays in this volume present deeply contextualized cases of sensory experience.They link senses to each other and to event, sentiment, emplacement, identity, and the ongoing shaping of social life. In doing so, they make a strong Joint case for the importance of taking the senses seriously, not in isolation but as integral elements of culture and interaction.
Parlamentskunst
Ästhetisierungen des Staates werden häufig als Krisenerscheinung der Demokratie beschrieben. Inszenierung politischer Macht, so wird eingewandt, überzeichne den demokratischen Prozess in seiner Idee der politischen Autonomie aller. Die Demokratie stelle sich demnach adaquät allein im Verzicht auf staatliche Ästhetik dar. Ausgehend vom Verfassungsrecht und entgegen dieser Trennungsthese von Demokratie und Ästhetik zeigt Lea-Marie Weischede, dass demokratische Verfahren durch ihre Ästhetisierung nicht entleert, sondern erst erfahrbar werden: Demokratische Staatsästhetik reflektiert die normative Ordnung und den darin festgelegten politischen Prozess, der sie hervorbringt. Daraus wird der juridische Code einer politischen Bildersprache der freiheitlichen Demokratie entwickelt und in der Kunst in den Berliner Parlamentsbauten, der Parlamentskunst, faktisch gespiegelt.
Weathering
Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?
Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke's thirty-five-year career, during which he has produced a vast range of work in all mediums, has earned him a reputation as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Born in 1941, he began his creative output around 1963 in Dusseldorf during a time of enormous social, cultural, and artistic changes in Germany and elsewhere. Few of his works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and subversive approach than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches produced during the 1960s and early 1970s. Embedded in these images are incisive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, the postwar political scene in Germany, and classic artistic conventions.
Die fiktive Institution als ästhetische Strategie
Das komplexe Projekt »Académie Worosis Kiga« des Pariser Künstlers Gérard Gasiorowski macht, wie auch bekannte Werke Marcel Broodthaers', Claes Oldenburgs und Jörg Immendorffs, eine bisher vernachlässigte Strategie künstlerischer Schöpfung um 1968 sichtbar. Unter der Bezeichnung »fiktive Institution« lenkt Theresa Nisters die Aufmerksamkeit auf jene Form künstlerischer Kritik, die sich - zeitgleich zu Strömungen wie »Land Art« oder »Arte Povera« - nicht ostentativ vom Kunstmarkt abwendete. Stattdessen wurden sich vorhandene Organisationsformen und Ordnungssysteme offizieller Institutionen zu eigen gemacht, um herkömmliche Beurteilungs- und Wertmaßstäbe zu unterlaufen.
