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| ZWINGER
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| Mansteinstrasse 5 |
| 10783 Berlin |
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| WOOD(S) |
| Curated by Laurence A. Rickels |
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| Featuring: Sascha Brosamer, Claudia del Torres,
Anders Dickson, Heinz Emigholz, Ueli Etter, Joachim Grommek, Margarete
Hahner, Rodrigo Hernández, Käthe Kruse, Ana Navas, Gunter
Reski, Eran Schaerf, Pola Sperber, Sara Wahl |
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| May 18 to July 13, 2013 |
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| The artworks exhibited
were selected within a double Lichtung, that of Rickels' instruction
at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe and
that of the Zwinger Galerie's stable of contemporary artists. The
show is accompanied by the illustrated monograph, published by Archive
Books: Wood(s): On Identification with Lost Causes. |
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| Rickels' essay explores
the trajectory of Birnam Wood, the immobility of which was the guarantee
the witches issued Macbeth that he would remain inviolate save for
the impossible prospect of the wood(s) advancing. Tracking its unnatural
advance forward through the crowd symbolization of the forest as German
army (in Canetti's Crowds and Power), which bears close association
with fire's mobility according to both Canetti and Bachelard, the
essay closes with the evolutionary SF forecast of trees walking in
hunting-pack formation unto the end of the world (in Wyndham's The
Day of the Triffids). The mobilization of naturally grounded wood(s)
as standing reserve offers an inside view of technologization in advance
of the externalities of a machine age. Moving back to the Trojan Horse
from the vantage point of Freud's analysis of the Macbeths as among
those "wrecked by success", the essay adds theory
to genealogy and considers the longstanding tendency to identify with
losing causes, even those of villains, and preserve their interests
or legacies through projection of a reversal of history. |
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| Laurence A. Rickels
is the author of legendary studies like Aberrations of Mourning,
The Case of California and I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick. After
30 years as professor of German and Comparative Literature at the
University of California, he moved to the other coast to serve as
Professor für Kunst und Theorie as Klaus Theweleit's successor
at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. He
is a licensed California psychotherapist (MFT) and the Sigmund Freud
Professor of Philosophy and Media at European Graduate School (Saas
Fee, Switzerland). |
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| WOODS OF THE DIGITAL
NATIVES |
| Sound Installation
and Performance by Sascha Brosamer and "SOHNE", |
| June 22, 2013, 7
pm |
| Pia Abzieher (Piano),
Sascha Brosamer (live-elektronik), David Leutkart (Synthesizer), Felix
Mayer (Posaune) |
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