A world of wild doubt
By: herausgegeben von Dorothee Böhm, Petra Lange-Berndt & Dietmar Rübel in zusammenarbeit mit Michael Liebelt & The London Thursday Institute
Contributors: Kunstverein in Hamburg
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9783943365665
Subjects: Influence; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: The starting point of this exhibition and subsequent publication is the novel 'The Man Who Was Thursday' by British poet G. K. Chesterton from 1908. The atmospheres conjured up in the book, ranging from discomfort to paranoia, resonate in many ways with the present. In a time when the German intelligence service enables assassinations by neo-Nazis, or criminal banksters loot globalized financial markets, political-philosophical ambiguity, as described by Chesterton with its causes and consequences, is as red hot as the question of whether a system can be reformed from within or has to be detonated by a coming insurrection. Thus, the exhibition and book fuse the skepticism of classical modernity toward absolute freedom with contemporary attitudes. Additionally, the curators and editors have formulated a criticism of the dominance of neoliberal and plutocratic models of society. But The Man Who Was Thursday is also a defense of nonsense.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Jan. 26-Apr. 14, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Im Zweifel für den Zweifel = When in doubt, for doubt / Petra Lange-Berndt & Dietmar Rübel; title: Avenue des Todes = Avenue of death / Félix Vallotton; title: Schwindelig vor moralischer Unentschlossenheit = The vertigo of moral indecision / Marten Schech; title: Das Mädchen mit dem goldroten Haar = The girl with the golden-red hair / Thomas Bechinger; title: Schwarzer Mob = Black mob / Olaf Metzel; title: Dynamitverbrecherklub = Dynamiters' club / Lawrence Weiner; title: Eine verrückte Seánce = An insane séance / Gilbert & George; title: Totes Tageslicht = Dead daylight / Bruce Nauman; title: Entlarvt! = The exposure / Suzanne Treister; title: Die Grenze des Irdischmöglichen = Borderland / Joachim Koester; title: Ein blindes Grinsen = A blind grin / Andreas Fischer; title: Verrücktes Abenteuer = Mad adventure / Max Schulze; title: Anarchisten-Frühstück = Anarchist breakfast / Andreas Slominski; title: Neuer Anarchismus = New anarchism / Mike Kelley; title: Das dreckige alte Ich = Dirty old self / Wilhelm Mundt; title: Demaskiert = Face off / Mark Lombardi; title: Das heisse schweisstreibende Erschrecken = Hot horror / Stephen Willats; title: Mitten in einem Feenland = Entrapped in fairyland / Tessa Farmer; title: Haltet den Präsidenten! = The pursuit of the president / Tony Oursler; title: Die Wonderwall des Londoner Thursday Institute = The Wonderwall of the London Thursday Institute; title: Von Hiob zu Christus : G.K. Chesterton in paulinischer Lesart = From Job to Christ : a Paulinian reading of Chesterton / Slavoj Žižek.