Antenna diaries
Subtitle: Jenny Michel
By: Texte: Ina Dinter, Jenny Michel, Brigitte Hausmann ; herausgegeben von Brigitte Hausmann
Contributors: Dinter, Ina, writer of supplementary textual content; Hausmann, Brigitte, editor, writer of foreword; Galerie Schwartzsche Villa
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9783864422713
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Jenny Michel :
Description: What is the expected shelf life of scientific findings? How soon do they land on the garbage heap of history? Jenny Michel uses scientific-technical representations, maps, and encyclopedia from the past and combines them with materials that lead to questions of value, duration, and transience. She dissolves the material in a unique palimpsest-like aesthetic, makes cut-outs, glues, staples, and collages it, lets it dangle from the ceiling and stretches it across walls and suspends it into the room. The result might be slightly uncomfortable for the viewer, since the real dissolution candidly reveals the dubiousness of ideologies, theories, and truths and, above all, allows this to be physically experienced. Art perceived as an image of archives and recording systems, as a repository of our cultural heritage, in this case, though, actually reflects dissolution and decay. --Publisher's website.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin-Steglitz, Germany, September 8-November 18, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.