Entries published at 06/24/2012

June 24, 2012

Document 17: DE/Exhibitions and Events

[for Carla Harryman]

The following chronology documents two weeks of intensive travels in the zone of the aesthetic, under the aspect of the political, in Germany. I accompanied Carla Harryman, who had been invited to present a lecture in the closing week of documenta and was a credentialed participant for the preview, for the first week, and then continued on alone through Munich, Nuremberg, Jena, Leipzig, to Berlin. Annotations will be added to the entries, as time permits.

Monday, June 4

JFK > FRA.

Tuesday, June 5

“Auf dem Goetheweg zum Brocken.” Nationalpark Harz, Torfhaus, Lower Saxony.

Grenzmuseum, Sorge, Lower Saxony.

Wednesday, June 6

Weltkulturerbe Rammelsberg, Museum und Besucherbergwerk, Goslar.

“Der Andere Blick: Alltagswelten von Martin Parr, Tim Wood, Antanas Sutkus.” Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar.

documenta 13, Kassel. Preview.

Thursday, June 7

documenta 13, Kassel. Fridericianum.

“On the Kabul-Bamiyan Seminars and Exhibition.” Conversation with Christine Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martinez, and artists. Ständehaus.

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Document 16: DE/Books

[for Donna Stonecipher]

Over two weeks in June, I traveled to eight German cities—Frankfurt, Goslar, Kassel, Munich, Nuremberg (including Erlangen and Fürth), Jena, Leipzig and Berlin—attended the opening of documenta 13; saw many related exhibitions and attended lectures and readings; presented a seminar at the University of Erlangen; bicycled, walked, and rode public transportation; and scanned for books. The list below documents the extent of my interests on what ended up as a research trip focusing on critical theory, poetics, and exhibitions. I will return in September for a second look at documenta, and to attend Carla Harryman’s closing keynote lecture, a re-presentation in poetic/musical form of Adorno’s 1959 lecture on New Music at documenta 2.

Critical theory

Adorno,  Theodor W. Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie der Gesellschaft  (1964). Ed. Tobias ten Brink and Marc Phillip Noguera. Nachgelassene Schriften, Vorlesungen, vol. 12.  Frankfurt am Main:  Suhrkamp, 2008. [Purchased at Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel, Kastanienallee, Berlin]

Harman,  Graham. The Third Table/Der Dritte Tisch. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, no.  85. Ostfildern, Germ.: Hatje Cantz, 2012. [documenta, Kassel]

Hawel,  Marcus, and Moritz Blanke, eds. Kritische Theorie: Der Krise. Berlin:  Karl Dietz, 2012. [Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel]

Mann,  Thomas, & Theodor W. Adorno. An Exchange/Ein Austausch. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, no. 50. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012. [documenta]

Mitscherlich,  Alexander, ed. Das beschädigte Leben: Diagnose und Therapie in einer Welt  unabsehbar Veränderungen. Grenzach/Baden, Germ.: Hoffman-La Roche, 1969. [Arkonaplatz,  Prenzlauerberg, Berlin]

Poetry  and poetics

Krutschonych,  Alexei (Alexei Kruchyonik). Phonetik des Theaters (1925). Ed. Valeri Scherstjanoi. Leipzig: Reinecke & Voß, 2011. [Lettrétage, Methfesselstraße, Berlin]

Reinecke,  Bertram. Sleutel voor de hoogduitsche Spraakkunst, ed. Ulf Stolterfoht.  Leipzig, Berlin, and Solothurn: roughbook, 2012. [Lettrétage]

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