登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Drone and Apocalypse
Joanna Demers
其他書名
An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World
出版John Hunt Publishing, 2015-12-11
主題Music / GeneralArt / GeneralPhilosophy / General
ISBN17827999589781782799955
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6EXtCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are “speculative artworks”, Wey’s term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Wey’s favorite musicians are drone artists like William Basinski, Celer, Thomas Köner, Les Rallizes Dénudés, and Éliane Radigue, and her essays relate their works to moments of ineffability in Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Robert Burton, Hegel, and Dostoyevsky. Well after Wey’s demise, the apocalypse never arrives, but Wey’s journal is discovered. Curators fascinated with twenty-first-century culture use her writings as the basis for their exhibit “Commentaries on the Apocalypse”, which realizes Wey’s speculative artworks as photographs, collages, and sound/video installations.