Stano Filko: Poetry on Space – Cosmos (2016) [Slovak/English]

Stano Filko (1937-2015) was a key figure in the Slovak neo-avant-garde, associated primarily with environment, installation, happening, and action. In his work he developed a cosmology structured by three principles: red (biology, eroticism, life, 3D), blue (cosmos, the unknown, 4D), and white (transcendence, God, 5D). He spent the 1980s as an émigré in the United States.

This catalogue documents an exhibition focusing on his work from the 1960s-70s, held at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava from June-September 2016.

Edited by Lucia Gregorová Stach and Aurel Hrabušický
Publisher Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, 2016
ISBN 9788080591977
97 pages

Exhibition

PDF (6 MB, updated on 2016-8-22)
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Audio guide for the exhibition (Slovak/English, added on 2016-8-22)

Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt: History and Obstinacy (1981–)

“If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Kluge and Negt’s History and Obstinacy, a breathtaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last 2,000 years. Supplementing classical political economy with the insights of fields ranging from psychoanalysis and phenomenology to evolutionary anthropology and systems theory, History and Obstinacy examines the complex ecology of expropriation and resistance as it reaches down into the deepest strata of unconscious thought, genetic memory, and cellular life. First published in 1981, this epochal collaboration has now been edited, expanded, and updated by the authors in response to global developments of the last decade to create an entirely new analysis of “the capitalism within us.””

First published as Geschichte und Eigensinn, 3 vols., Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, 1981.

Translated by Richard Langston et al.
Edited and with an Introduction by Devin Fore
Publisher Zone Books, New York, 2014
ISBN 1935408461, 9781935408468
541 pages
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Reviews: Christopher Pavsek (New German Critique 1996), Stewart Martin (Radical Philosophy 2015), Tara Hottman (Qui Parle 2015), Adrian Wilding (Marx & Philosophy 2015).

Publisher
WorldCat

PDF (14 MB, updated on 2021-7-12)
Video complements

John Hejduk: The Collapse of Time: Diary Constructions (1987)

“In October 1986, John Hejduk’s The Collapse of Time was erected outside the Architectural Association premises in Bedford Square, London. The publication contains a text by David Shapiro, photo essay Hélène Binet and Hejduk’s personal diary of the conception of the project, together with drawings and a photographic study of its construction.”

Publisher Architectural Association, London, 1987
Text series, 2
ISBN 9780904503944
[88] pages
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Video footage from Hejduk’s Victims exhibition shown at the AA in 1986 (48 min)

Publisher
WorldCat

PDF (6 MB)
See also Hejduk’s Victims, 1986.