Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana
And Europe Will Be Stunned : The Polish Trilogy
ed. by James Lingwood and Eleanor Nairne ; essays by Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir, Boris Groys, Joanna Mytkowska and Jacqueline Rose

Author(s)
Ariella Azoulay, Adi Ophir, Boris Groys, Joanna Mytkowska, Jacqueline Rose
Editor(s)
James Lingwood, Eleanor Nairne
Publication
London : Artangel, 2012
Scope
158 Pages, illustrated, 25 x 30 cm.
ISBN
9781902201269

The solo exhibition Yael Bartana - ... and Europe will be stunned, is accompanied by the two publications. A Cookbook for Political Imagination was made for the Venice Biennale, and is a manual of political instructions and recipes, delivered by more than 50 international authors. This second publication, …and Europe will be stunned – The Polish Trilogy, includes an extensive sequence of colour stills from the trilogy, transcripts of the speeches in the films and newly commissioned essays. In her films‭, ‬installations‭, ‬photographs‭, ‬staged performances and public monuments Yael Bartana investigates subjects like national identity‭, ‬trauma‭, ‬and displacement‭, ‬often through ceremonies‭, ‬memorials‭, ‬public rituals and collective gatherings‭.‬


Person as subject
Yael Bartana
Keywords
art in public space , community art , performance , translocality , various disciplines , national identity
Location
Cabinet 1 - 3: Kunstenaars
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