Diedrich Diederichsen

Diederichsen, Aesthetics of Pop Music

Essays

Das 21. Jahrhundert

Geniale Dilletanten war der absichtlich falsch geschriebene Titel eines Musikfestivals, das 1981 im Berliner Tempodrom stattfand und zum Synonym einer kurzen Epoche künstlerischen Aufbruchs wurde. Vor allem im Umfeld von Kunsthochschulen erblühte eine Avantgarde, die sich durch künstlerische Vehemenz, genreübergreifendes Experimentieren und den Wunsch nach Selbstorganisation auszeichnete. Diesem Leitgedanken verschrieben sich Bands wie die Einstürzenden Neubauten, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Ornament und Verbrechen, Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Die tödliche Doris oder Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle. Der Katalog folgt den Musikbands, den Künstlern, Filmemachern und Designern durch die Clubs, Bars und Galerien ihrer Zeit. Das Gefühl des Aufbruchs und der ästhetischen Freiheit wird hierdurch auch für den gegenwärtigen Leser erfahrbar gemacht.

Brilliant dilletantes

Thomas Hecken

Hans Nieswandt

Detlef Diederichsen

Chrsitoph Jacke

Gabriele Rohmann

Günter Zint

Die bereits fünfte Pop-Dekadentagung beschäftigte sich 2019 in Hamburg mit dem, was "Musikerinitiativen"der Sibezigerjahre nachlassen: Wird "deutsche" Pop-Musik im Museum landen? Oder kann ein digitales Archiv gar Kraut-Rock-Schätze retten? Diedrich Diederichsen, Detlef Diederichsen, Thomas Hecken, Christoph Jacke, Hans Nieswandt und Gabriele Rohmann geben ungewohnte Blicke auf eine vermeintlich nur akteulle Landschaft frei.

Die Archiv-Debatte der 5. Pop-Dekadentagung

Gehört "deutsche" Popmusik ins Museum?

René Pollesch

Stücke

Kill your Darlings

Oier Etxeberria

An examination of the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections, with works that use the powerlessness of art. Cybernetics of the Poor examines the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present. From the late 1940s on, the term cybernetics began to be used to describe self-regulating systems that measure, anticipate, and react in order to intervene in changing conditions. Initially relevant mostly in the fields of administration, planning, criminology, and early ecology, under digital capitalism cybernetics has since become an economic factor (particularly in the realm of big data). In such a cybernetic totality, art must respond to a new situation: a cybernetics of the poor. Cybernetics of the Poor presents work that uses the powerlessness of art--its poverty--vis-à-vis the cybernetic machine to propose countermodels: work that is both recent and historical by artists who believed in cybernetics as a participatory, playful practice or were pioneers in delineating a counter-cybernetics. How much of what Thomas Pynchon termed "counterforce" exists within art when it is conceived as a cybernetics of the poor?

Cybernetics of the Poor

Anselm Franke

Essays, artistic text contributions, and curatorial statements on the German writer Hubert Fichte's fascination with Afro-diasporic arts and religions. Can the ethnological observations and feelings on Afro-diasporic cultures from a German writer be “restituted”? What are the possibilities and limits of using self-reflection and gay sexuality as research tools? Since 2017, the exhibition and publication project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology has followed this question through Hubert Fichte's cycle of novels History of Sensitivity. Fascinated by Afro-diasporic arts and religions, Fichte (1935–1986) traveled to cities including Salvador da Bahia, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York, and Lisbon. Translations of Fichte's novels became the basis for critical local receptions and new artistic works in these cities. This book brings together essays, artistic text contributions, and curatorial statements from the projects in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York, and Lisbon, as well as extensive photo series depicting the artistic works from the exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Love and Ethnology is a collaboration between Goethe-Institut and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, supported by S. Fischer Stiftung and S. Fischer Verlag.

The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)

Love and Ethnology

David Campany

Catherine M. Soussloff

Séamus Kealy

Chantal Pontbriand

The most comprehensive book available on one of today's most important visual artists, this volume features images from Stan Douglas's acclaimed series as well as stills from a new video work and a stage production. This book features images and stills from Douglas's most recent works: Artists' Cabin, Olde Curio Shop, Kardynal Shoes, Tosi Foods, Crowds and Riots, Midcentury Studio, and Disco Angola. It also includes images from two much-anticipated works: a new video piece and Helen Lawrence, a cinematic stage production. A series of essays discussing Douglas's influences and themes as well as texts by the artist himself round out this impressive book.

Stan Douglas

Ann Goldstein

Art as Object 1958-1968

A Minimal Future?

Hartmut Albrecht

Rosina Huth

re, sound - art - design

Lautsprecherei

Kestner-Gesellschaft

Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus--styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners--which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references. Fake Titel presents sculptures and drawings from three recent series: The Help (2012), the large-scale installation Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (2011) and the photographic suite Sunset Series (2000-2012). The Help examines the roles of the artist, the muse and the "help," mixing found objects with abstract forms; Incidents of Travel in Yucatan is a mixed-media installation including a wall of pedestals, autonomous sculptures and video; and the Sunset Series comprises 31 photographs of a single source image, a photograph of a sunset. In each photograph in the series, shot on 35mm film, the artist physically manipulates the found snapshot to create a new image.

Rachel Harrison

Fake Titel

Alex Kitnick

Kestner-Museum (Hannover)

Susanne Figner

Martin Germann

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Gent)

Yayoi Kusama

Midori Yamamura

Lily van der Stokker

Mirrored Years

Die beiden zentralen Themen von Diedrich Diederichsens Buch sind Stadtpolitik und Pop-Kultur, die für den Autor mehr miteinander zu tun haben, als man denkt. Stadtdiskussion, neuer Architekturdiskurs, Drogenpolitik und die Vertreibung unerwünschter Personen von öffentlichen Plätzen einerseits und die inflationäre Rede von Pop in allen Medien und Zusammenhängen sind für Diedrich Diederichsen Anlaß für seine spezifische Form der Zeitdiagnose, die er in den beiden vorhergehenden Bänden »Freiheit macht arm« und »Politische Korrekturen« begonnen hat.

Der Sound und die Stadt

Der lange Weg nach Mitte

California and the Disappearance of the Outside

The Whole Earth

Élisabeth Lebovici

The first and much anticipated monograph on the groundbreaking work of one of today's most celebrated multimedia artists French artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar creates environments and situations in which she uses her own body to examine the dual experience of vulnerability and empowerment that results from acts of exposing oneself to the world. Evolving through a range of media such as performance, video, installation, sound, and literature, her work considers the fluid border between public and private space, challenging conventions related to the body, sexuality, power relations, and institutional spaces. This is the first book to document her remarkable career.

Lili Reynaud-Dewar

Kobena Mercer

Nora M. Alter

Renée Green

Gloria Sutton

Elvan Zabunyan

Julian Renbentisch

Musée cantonal des beaux-arts (Lausanne)

This is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to New York and San Francisco-based artist Renée Green. Over the past 20 years, through film, video, sound art, photographs, prints, banners, texts, websites and ephemera, Green's work has comprised complex, multi-layered archive-like installations, employing a vast array of sources, which always urge viewers to become active participants. Included in this superbly illustrated volume are newly commissioned essays by a host of esteemed media scholars, art historians, critics and curators--Nora Alter, Diedrich Diederichsen, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Quéloz, Gloria Sutton and Elvan Zabunyan--who engage issues central to Green's oeuvre, such as genealogy, archives and their reworkings, movements and displacements, site specificity and location.

Ongoing Becomings : Retrospective 1989-2009

Peter Pakesch

Pop music is a hybrid originally spawned by the parallelism of sound and image found in TV programmes, fanzines and record covers. At its heart is a feeling of direct involvement with people rather than musical values. These can function as sex objects or the embodiment of new lifestyles. For art, the system of pop music is as much a disturbing mirror as a rival event. Rock – Paper – Scissors brings together artists whose works and techniques have long been defined by a close relationship with popular music. In this catalogue, Dirck Linck, Nora Sdun, Christian HÖller and curator Diedrich Diederichsen ponder about pop music and art and their wild but reciprocal relationship during the last turbulent fifty years between the first TV pop stars and the YouTube reality of today. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rock – Paper – Scissors at Kunsthaus Graz, June – September 2009. English and German text.

pop music as subject of visual art

Rock - paper - scissors

1500 Schallplatten 1979-1989

Mike Kelley

Dan Graham

Richard Hell

Dominic Molon

Matthew Higgs

Anthony Elms

Jutta Koether

Bob Nickas

Jan Tumlir

Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling over de relatie tussen rockmuziek en avantgardistische kunst sinds de zestiger jaren.

Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967

Sympathy for the Devil

Diedrich Diederichsen

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