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Night photo of white letter shapes 'L' 'U' and 'E' held up by yellow poles with SCHAUM Selbstoptimierung to upper right corner

SCHAUM

Selbstoptimierung / Self-Optimisation

Text by Anke Hervol
Text by Michael Schoenholtz
Text by Jean-Pie

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  • A monograph on the work of artist collective SCHAUM, reflecting society’s self-optimisation craze, conceptualising the possibility of a post human being
  • Text in English and German
Full Description

Since 2009, the artist collective SCHAUM operates in lieu of the average person, upon which the experimental set-ups for the current processes of self-optimising are imposed. In photographic series, sculptures, installations, and performances the test subjects as well as simple found objects are alienated, conceptually “abused”, and fused with old-masterly allegories and Christian iconography. SCHAUM are “already on their way to a post-human variation” of the defective human being, from which eventually “an artificial creature, an artefact of itself” (Jean-Pierre Wils) shall arise.

Text in English and German.

About the Author
The artist collective SCHAUM works conceptually with photography, painting, graphic art, object, installation and performance. Since 2009, numerous awards, institutional exhibitions, and works in public collections.
Specifications
Publisher
Kerber
ISBN
9783735607188
Published
26th May 2021
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the US & Canada
Size
270 mm x 215 mm
Pages
144 Pages
Illustrations
108 color
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