Mark von Schlegell. New Dystopia
Book Presentation and Performance
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin
2011, A kulturnaut, a squid, a Shakespeare, a dog, an artist abstract, a chrononaut, a washerwoman, Tom Ripley and his bones all pass through New Dystopia. Their sped-up speculations lead to new models of deterritorialized expression and visionary and hallucinatory worlds as Mark von Schlegell's novel-as-catalog purports to display some of the facets of the invisible catastrophe breaking up our world.
Conceived to contextualize 2011's Dystopia exhibition at the CAPC Museum Bordeaux, this highly experimental, English/French critical fiction is illustrated with the work of numerous historical and contemporary artists: Wallace Berman, Cosima von Bonin, Brian Calvin, Tony Carter, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Peter Coffin, Simon Denny, Andreas Dobler, Roe Ethridge, Keith Farquhar, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Aurélien Froment, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Roger Hiorns, Ull Hohn, Des Hughes, Peter Hutchinson, Eugene Isabey, Sergej Jensen, On Kawara, Michael Krebber, Jesus Mari Lazkano, Rita McBride, John Miller, Pathetic Sympathy Seekers, Manfred Pernice, Stephen G. Rhodes, Glen Rubsamen, Sterling Ruby, Julia Scher, Frances Scholz, Michael Scott, Markus Selg, Reena Spaulings, Michael Stevenson, Tommy Støckel, Josef Strau, Blair Thurman, Mathieu Tonetti, Oscar Tuazon, Franz West, Jordan Wolfson
In conjunction with the release of New Dystopia, von Schlegell will give a rare performance of the radio-play "Love the clear dark…." (Alex Waterman & Mark von Schlegell, 2010), whose text features prominently in the "Galleries" section of New Dystopia.
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