Title: Totentanz
Description: In an extraordinary total installation, Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger have addressed the motif and significance of the dance of death. On the site of a former cemetery, the original location of Basel's Dance of Death, which was destroyed in 805, they implemented a market situation that conincided with the Basel Autumn Fair. They invited artists from very different domains to create images, urns, models and performances. Each market stall and each offering presented a unique view of death. This richly illustrated publication reproduces manifestations, thoughts and documents pertaining to the dance of death and its significance to society.--Cover.
Subjects: Catalogs, Death in art, Dance of death in art, Installations (Art), Performance art
Places: Switzerland, Basel, 21st century
People: Gerda Steiner (1967-), Jörg Lenzlinger, Gerda Steiner
Time periods: 21st century, Switzerland