Juli Carson (ed.) for the Generali Foundation, Vienna 2007.
Preface by Dietrich Karner, editorial by Sabine Breitwieser, introduction by Juli Carson, essays by Juli Carson, Parveen Adams, and Gregory Ulmer, texts by Andrea Geyer, Ken Gonzales-Day, Sharon Hayes, Adrià Julià, Juan Maidagan, Stephanie Taylor, Kerry Tribe, and Bruce Yonemoto.
Germ./Engl., 184 pages, 20 color and 15 black-and-white illustrations, softcover
Article n. 978-3-901107-52-8
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- Exile of the Imaginary showcases artworks and critical writings that ponder the relationship between post-conceptual art practice and the legacy of Roland Barthes’s renowned A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. The focus is on Roland Barthes’s assertion that love can be a critical “medium” in politically turbulent times. In each of the artworks in the exhibition, the question of desire provides the vehicle for approaching the actual subject matter: a specific cultural event. Art is questioned as a critical mediator of social ruptures, thus removing the dialectical divide between “political” and “lyrical” genres. The publication enhances the exhibition with a discursive examination of the subject through art historic, psychoanalytic, and linguistic essays as well as a discussion among the artists.