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Covergirl: Wespen-Akte
A feeling between shock, grief, and anger; it has to do with my body, with losing control, with memory, the present, with time, powerlessness and outside control, ± says photographer Tina Bara of the moment she saw a catalogue of Spanish artist Dora Garcia on her colleague?s desk.?I recognised the photograph, I had become a nude cover girl.±?I± in this case meaning a nude young woman with a black bar covering her eyes. For her work?Rooms, Conversations± Garcia had used several photos from the STASI archives, and incidentally a picture of Bara was selected as the cover of her catalogue. What was a random STASI photo of a nude woman with obscured eyes to Garcia, to Bara was her life. With?Covergirl: Wespen-Akte± Tina Bara and Alba d?Urbano present an artistic reply to Garcia?s catalogue; a reply which reveals the story of the photographs.
Contemporary Curating and Museum Education
In the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participation in creating links between past and present. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice? This question is addressed by international contributors from different types of museums. For anyone interested in the future of museums, it offers insights into the diversity of positions and experiences of translating the »grand designs« of museology into practice.
Feminisms/Museums/Surveys
The first anthology of feminist art exhibition essays and museum publications, providing an exciting and valuable overview of recent developments in feminist curation Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 brings together works from exhibition catalogs and museum publications to provide a comprehensive and timely view of the modern approach to feminist curating. Offering insights into how curators from around the world engage with different feminisms and select and exhibit feminist art, this one-of-a-kind anthology exemplifies the diversity of feminist thinking and curatorial approaches in the contemporary art museum. This important volume comprises articles and essays draw...
Missing Link
Photography, more than any other medium, has altered the way we see ourselves and changed our perception of art. Pictures of people have become part and parcel of our daily life, influencing us through advertising and media. At the same time, the status of the human image in art has been enhanced, even though photography has called into question traditional views of art. Photography is, as it were, the "missing link" between man, the image of man and art.
Gender and Germanness
The contributors to this volume pursue the standards of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts and language over a period of 300 years in sections devoted to history and the canon, visual culture, language and power.
When Clothes Become Fashion
When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the world of fashion - its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions.
Metropolitan Preoccupations
In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the city Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the “right to the city” and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanisms Examines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformation Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wake Draws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany
Svinstian
Tina lever ensam med sina katter sedan hennes man gått bort. Hon är tyngd av bitterhet och svåra skuldkänslor över att ha svikit sitt nu vuxna barn. Många år av psykisk misshandel har format henne och det förflutna spökar, ovälkomna minnen gör sig ofta påminda. När Tina lär känna grannen Sanna och hennes son Noa, och förstår att de lever med en man som inte behandlar dem väl, rivs gamla sår upp. Sanna börjar inse att det är ohållbart att stanna med mannen Mats, hans oberäkneliga humör oroar henne mer och mer för varje dag. Hon hoppas in i det längsta att de ska kunna lösa sina problem, men efter en skrämmande händelse får hon nog och flyr i panik till grannen. Tinas ilska växer och hon ser det som sin uppgift att ställa allt till rätta... Svinstian är en berättelse om skuldkänslor, bitterhet och hämnd och obehaget anas hela tiden under ytan. Svinstian är Susanne Schempers andra spänningsroman.
