Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world

Name: Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world
Brand: Collective Ink
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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 120
Release Date:: 2015-12-11
Publication Date:: 2015-12-11
Publisher:: Collective Ink
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 178279994X
ISBN13:: 9781782799948
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 133 g
Height:: 13.9 cm
Width:: 21.6 cm
Thickness:: 1.2 cm

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