Life on Mars
55th Carnegie International
text Douglas Fogle, Daniel Birnbaum, Thomas Hischhorn

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Author(s)

Douglas Fogle, Daniel Birnbaum, Thomas Hischhorn

Publication

Pittsburg : Carnegie Museum of Art, 2008

Scope

440 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

Carrier

exhibition catalogue

ISBN

9780880390514

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the 55th Carnegie International in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, May 3, 2008 - Januari 11, 2009, organized over the last three years by Douglas Fogle, Daniel Birnbaum, Chus Martínez, Richard Flood and Eungie Joo. In the lead essay of the show’s catalog Fogle notes some questions posed by the show’s title. Are there other forms of life in the universe? Can art help us explore what the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard called its “intimate immensity”? And, more pertinent, has the human race turned Earth itself into an alien planet, a place of rampant waste, arrogance, immorality and violence?

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Person as subject

Doug Aitken, Kai Althoff, Mark Bradford, Cao Fei, Vija Celmins, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Peter Fischli, Fischli & Weiss, Ryan Gander, Daniel Guzmán, Thomas Hirschhorn, Richard Hughes, Mike Kelley, Friedrich Kunath, Maria Lassnig, Sharon Lockhart, Mark Manders, Barry McGee, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Matthew Monahan, Rivane Neuenschwander, Noguchi Rika, Manfred Pernice, Susan Philipsz, Wilhelm Sasnal, Thomas Schütte, Ranjani Shettar, David Shrigley, Paul Sietsema, Rudolf Stingel, Katja Strunz, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andro Wekua, Richard Wright, Haegue Yang

Keywords

post anthropocene , various disciplines , future scenario's

Location

Cabinet 11 - 4: Antropoceen

Remarks