Gardar Eide Einarsson
Subtitle: [Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs]
By: [texts, Bob Nickas, Nick Land, Martin Herbert ; editors, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Steinar Sekkingstad, Solveig Øvstebø]
Contributors: Nickas, Robert; Land, Nick, 1962-; Herbert, Martin, 1973-; Sekkingstad, Steinar; Øvstebø, Solveig
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9783943365771
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artists; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs
Description: The artist's first comprehensive monograph, the book contains documentation of a large selection of works since the early 2000s. Three commissioned essays provide various approaches to the reading of Einarsson's oeuvre. Bob Nickas situates the reader in a science-fiction-inspired future scenario where a book that turns out to be an exhibition catalogue forms the basis for the attempts of the main characters to penetrate into the artist's universe of signs. The philosopher Nick Land outlines a complex interpretative horizon in the encounter with Einarsson's precise analyses of the language of power by exploiting and reactivating the vocabulary of "post-Minimalist" art. And Martin Herbert tackles Einarsson's output in the 2000s, and shows how he continually problematizes the residual potential of art as critique and political tool.--Supplied by publisher.
Notes: Catalog publ. to accompany the exhibition presented at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, from May 23 to Aug. 15, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: This is the way the world ends. Never / Bob Nicklas; title: This is not a drill / Nick Land; title: How to spoil your ballot / Martin Herbert.