Edited by Rita Vitorelli
Published by Spike
English / German
28 X 22.5 cm
Softcover
Price: 47 lei
We invited leading posthumanist artists and thinkers to consider the future of human beings and the body. Karin Harrasser interviewed artist Stelarc, who has worked with robotics and artificial organs since the 1970s. Gianni Jetzer talked to artist Ian Cheng, who programs autonomously evolving, virtual ecosystems. And in a roundtable discussion, three of the food technology industry’s avant-garde – Todd Huffman, Ryan Bethencourt and Jayar La Fontaine – talk about the lab-grown diet of the future.
Curator Jeffrey Deitch reflects on his 1992/93 group show “Post Human”. Anselm Franke thinks through the late work of Harun Farocki to suggest that today, data forms our world and not the other way around. Rosi Braidotti sketches out a posthumanist, nomadic subject. Fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm writes a poem on the perfect body of the future. And Hans-Christian Dany discovers the posthuman potential of the drug DMT, which he claims induces receptivity to a world wherein humans simply understand themselves as one form of being among many others.
In addition, Brian Droitcour analyzes bodybuilding as the sport of the age of surveillance. Alexander Scrimgeour sees the self and the public cast into disarray in Hannah Perry’s art. Noura Wedell reads the biocapitalist present in Pierre Guyotat’s 1970 novel Eden Eden Eden. In her short story, Sarah Nicole Prickett tells of an erotic evening with her extended family under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms. And philosopher Damien Williams explains why we should rethink our own ethics before teaching machines ethical behavior.
Plus: Reviews of Felix Bernstein’s musical-performance “Bieber Bathos Elegy” at the Whitney Museum in New York and of the most important exhibitions in Brussels, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, and Los Angeles. And image contributions by Phil Up, Charlotte Prodger, Judith Bernstein, Chloe Piene, and Shahryar Nashat.
