Spielraum 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2363539B

  Author(s)

  Cibic, Jasmina

  City

  Berlin 

  Country

  Germany 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9783954762545 

  Date of Publication

  2018 

  Publisher

  Distanz Verlag Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  347 

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Cibic, Jasmina

  Publisher

  Distanz Verlag Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad  

• Description

  Spielraum Spielraum is a publication about Jasmina Cibic’s latest work, developed with the Ludwig Museum, Budapest; the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Cibic is known for her investigation of how art and architecture are utilized as soft power strategies in the enterprise of nation building. Her works often gather and restage found materials that are in some way infused by the spectre of political ideology but that have, over time, changed in their performative function as enforcers of state identity. The title of the project is drawn from an essay by Karl Kraus, in which he vehemently opposes the use of decoration in both language and architecture. In this multidisciplinary work, Cibic takes Kraus’s concept of ‘Spielraum’ as a lens through which to examine strategies of nation building by political figures and establishments via the use of linguistic and visual decoration, with particular focus on the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, in 1961.