TEXTE ZUR KUNST #114
THE SEA
JUNE 2019

Edited by Isabelle Graw
Published by Texte zur Kunst
2019
17 x 23 cm
Softcover
English

Price: 84 lei

The sea has inspired artists, writers, and thinkers for centuries; but what has changed in our view of the sea since the canonical seafaring novels and paintings of the 19th century? In the June issue of Texte zur Kunst, dedicated to the mysteries and violence of the deep, we examine the sea from a media-theoretical perspective as well as from the perspective of current political and ecological catastrophes. For this issue, the theoretical texts are punctuated by photo essays by four artists who have dealt with the sea as a biosphere as well as a transit system for container vessels. In short, we realize just how important it is to look at the sea again, and again.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

- BERNHARD SIEGERT
THE SINKING OF A STEAMBOAT / Robert Carrick’s, William Suhr’s, David Bull’s, and J. M. W. Turner’s “Rockets and Blue Lights” (1840–2003)

- NADJA ABT
SEAWOMEN

- ASHNA ALI
MEDITERRANEAN BORDERLAND

- SUSANNE M. WINTERLING
CODE AND POETRY OF THE SEA

- IN THE THICKNESS OF THE CROSSING / Challenging the Liquid Violence of Borders in the Mediterranean – An interview with Charles Heller

- MANDLA REUTER
MOUNTAIN WATER

- D. GRAHAM BURNETT
JETSAM

- HIRA NABI
HOW TO DISMANTLE A SHIP IN NINE STEPS

- FRANZISKA BRONS
THE SEA: MEDIUM AND MILIEU

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