Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over. Earthling Stories
Edited by Janine Blöß and Hörner/Antlfinger
2020, approx. 116 pages, colour illustrations throughout, 28 x 21 cm, softcover with flaps
Published in the context of the WELTKUNSTZIMMER exhibition of the same name
from 28.11.2019 until 02.02.2020
ISBN 978-3-942154-57-4
Publishing house of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Price: 16,00 EUR
Available for order at: info@weltkunstzimmer.de
With a text by Jessica Ulrich; with contributions by Anna Bandke/Anne Arndt, Sophia Bauer, Manuel Boden, Pascal Marcel Dreier, Giorgi Gedevanidze, Biniam Graffé, Nieves de La Fuente Gutierréz, Verena Friedrich, Thomas Hawranke, Jeeso Hong, Hörner/Antlfinger, Jiha Jeon, Christelle Jornod, Paul Kolling/Paul Seidler/Max Hampshire, Danila Lipatov, Evamarie Lindahl, Antje Majewski, Susan Helen Miller, Katharina Mönkemöller, Norie Neumark/Maria Miranda, Hanna Noh, Stephanie Rothenberg, Hye Young Sin, Sissy Schneider, Saša Spačal/Anil Podgornik/Mirjan Švagelj, Qimeng Sun, Myrto Vratsanou, Hermann Weber, Daniel Wolter.
Design and cover design: Olivier Arcioli/ateliergruen.de
Bacteria, fungi, plants, animals, humans and machines share a common world. What bonds and conflicts characterize their relationships? How can we learn to empathize with non-human beings? According to which needs, values and logics of action are their living worlds shaped? And how will future generations view our interaction with other species?
These and other questions formed the basis for the exhibition Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over, which was on view at the WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf from 28.11.2019 to 02.02.2020, and the publication of the same name now available. The exhibition and publication bring works by students and teachers of Transmedial Space at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) into dialogue with works by international artists* from Australia, Sweden, Slovenia and the USA, who have long been researching in the thematic field of expanded Human-Animal-Studies and beyond. In an open process, an intensive ongoing engagement with what Donna Haraway so aptly calls "learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together" emerged.
Stories of empathetic relationships, unconditional trust and care are told, as well as of powerful oppression, indifferent ignorance and destructive exploitation. In the midst of ecological crises, the artists question anthropocentric perspectives and thus broaden the view for very different readings of the environment.
Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over is a cooperation between Janine Blöß (curator, WELTKUNSTZIMMER), Mathias Antlfinger, Thomas Hawranke, Ute Hörner (Atelier Transmedialer Raum, KHM), Verena Friedrich (exMedia Lab, KHM) and students of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM).
Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over. Earthling Stories
Edited by Janine Blöß and Hörner/Antlfinger
2020, approx. 116 pages, colour illustrations throughout, 28 x 21 cm, softcover with flaps
Published in the context of the WELTKUNSTZIMMER exhibition of the same name
from 28.11.2019 until 02.02.2020
ISBN 978-3-942154-57-4
Publishing house of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Price: 16,00 EUR
Available for order at: info@weltkunstzimmer.de
With a text by Jessica Ulrich; with contributions by Anna Bandke/Anne Arndt, Sophia Bauer, Manuel Boden, Pascal Marcel Dreier, Giorgi Gedevanidze, Biniam Graffé, Nieves de La Fuente Gutierréz, Verena Friedrich, Thomas Hawranke, Jeeso Hong, Hörner/Antlfinger, Jiha Jeon, Christelle Jornod, Paul Kolling/Paul Seidler/Max Hampshire, Danila Lipatov, Evamarie Lindahl, Antje Majewski, Susan Helen Miller, Katharina Mönkemöller, Norie Neumark/Maria Miranda, Hanna Noh, Stephanie Rothenberg, Hye Young Sin, Sissy Schneider, Saša Spačal/Anil Podgornik/Mirjan Švagelj, Qimeng Sun, Myrto Vratsanou, Hermann Weber, Daniel Wolter.
Design and cover design: Olivier Arcioli/ateliergruen.de
Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over is a cooperation between Janine Blöß (curator, WELTKUNSTZIMMER), Mathias Antlfinger, Thomas Hawranke, Ute Hörner (Atelier Transmedialer Raum, KHM), Verena Friedrich (exMedia Lab, KHM) and students of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM).