On May 21, 2013, the French right-wing activist and blogger, Dominique Venner, shot himself in the head at the altar of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. His choice to end his life was intended as a demonstration against homosexuality in the public realm. It was also the onset of Gerry Bibby’s investigation into,… Read more »
November 2014
Telling and Retelling
Poster design for the artist´s permanent commissioning at Zealand Institute of Business and Technology, Campus Roskilde, Denmark in 2014. The complex work “Telling and Retelling” comprises site specific installations such as curtains, vitrine with objects, films and a poster. Photography by Johannes Christoffersen
Hystericizing Germany. Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz
“Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a subproletarian apocalypse set in the Weimar Republic, provided Fassbinder with material to historicize the avant-garde of the 1920s and redetermine the relationship between utopianism and popular address. While… Read more »
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