Antje Majewski - The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk (Sternberg Press) - Softcover

Antje Majewski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934105724 ISBN 13: 9781934105726

Publisher: Sternber Pr, 2011

Synopsis

A matrix of life, nature and the cosmos, Antje Majewski's World of Gimel is the artist's own private universal museum in a nutshell, featuring a septet of objects: a clay teapot in the form of a human hand, a shell, a pot made of fragrant wood, a Buddha's hand citron, a hedge apple, a white stone, a meteorite―acquired by Majewski during her numerous travels and encounters. The exhibition is a book; the book is an exhibition; the World of Gimel―a hybrid of Aleph and Babel, of fantasy and scientific knowledge―is a language laboratory, a structure en abîme, Majewski's unique venture into the universe of things and their other identity.

Participating artists: Thomas Bayrle, Helke Bayrle, Marcel Duchamp, Didier Faustino, Pawel Freisler, Delia Gonzalez, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Edward Krasinski, Leonore Mau, Markus Miessen & Ralf Pflugfelder, Dirk Peuker, Agnieszka Polska, Mathilde Rosier, Gavin Russom, Issa Samb, Juliane Solmsdorf, Simon Starling & Superflex, El Hadji Sy, Neal Tait

Co-published with Kunsthaus Graz
Including a DVD with films by Antje Majewski and postcards with installation views

Contributors
Adam Budak, Clémentine Deliss, Antje Majewski, Ingo Niermann, Peter Pakesch, Xu Shuxian, Marcus Steinweg; transcripts of interviews with Issa Samb, El Hadji Sy, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Thomas and Helke Bayrle; and reprints by Jorges Luis Borges, Friedrich Hölderlin, Chuang Tzu, John Joseph Mathews

About this edition

• Publisher: Sternber Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1934105724
• ISBN 13: 9781934105726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Adam Budak, Peter Pakesch