Like space travel, nuclear
war has for decades created a vast new territory for the imagination. People have envisaged two enemy blocs fighting a final war in which a blazing fire consumes the world. In science fiction novels and films, great writers and film-makers have thought up possible worlds during or after a nuclear war. Artists, however, have tended to subordinate themselves to the idea of the impossibility of adequate representation.
Works by Bruno,
Pawel and Szymon
Althamer,
Christoph de Babalon, Markus Dinig, Lukas Duwenhögger,
Olafur Eliasson,
Isa Genzken, Julian Göthe, Sebastian Hammwöhner / Dani Jakob, Chris Korda, Ulrike Kuschel,
Sarah Lucas, Martine Maffetti, Antje Majewski,
Aleksandra Mir,
Mathilde Rosier,
Eva Rothschild, Neal Tait, Salla Tykkä, and
Gary Webb.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Atomkrieg at Kunsthaus Dresden (May 20 – July 11, 2004), all stories and essays are written specially for the exhibition. Most of the writers are part of a contemporary German pop-literature and translated for the first time into English.
Antje Majewski became best known through her series of photorealistic, figurative paintings, which grapple with existential questions like friendship, love, masquerade, and death. Her topics also revolve around the psychology of individuals in relation to society, history, and social norms.
Writer and journalist Ingo Niermann was born in 1969 in Bielefeld, Germany.
Edited by Antje Majewski and Ingo Niermann.
Texts by Joachim Bessing, Alexa Hennig von Lange, Christian Kracht, Ulrike and Antje Kuschel, Antje Majewski, Christiane Mennicke, Dora Miran, Ingo Niermann.
published in 2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
19 x 23 cm (softcover)
136 pages (40 colour ill.)
ISBN : 978-0-9745688-2-9
EAN : 9780974568829
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