Bøger af Thorsten Sadowsky

David Tudor (1926-1996) war in den 1950er-Jahren einer der führenden Pianisten und Interpreten zeitgenössischer Musik in Europa und den USA. Seine Fähigkeit, auf die Unbestimmtheit anspruchsvoller Partituren von Komponisten wie John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen und Christian Wolff zu reagieren und deren komplexe, manchmal mehrdeutige Anweisungen umzusetzen, war einzigartig und faszinierte seine Zeitgenossen. Ab den frühen 1960er-Jahren vollzog er den Wandel vom Interpreten zum Komponisten-Performer und schuf die Grundlage für eine Praxis, die wir heute als Live-Elektronik kennen."Teasing Chaos" ist die erste umfassende Darstellung seiner Pionierleistung und seiner interdisziplinären Kollaborationen mit bildenden Künstler*innen wie Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp oder Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, und würdigt ein Werk, das bisher zu wenig beachtet geblieben ist.

"How can an Austrian art museum that has stated its support of a diverse and inclusive society take a critical and appropriate view of phenomena like racism and xenophobia? How can it look at issues such as physical and structural violence, cultural identity, and social exclusion, and also promote the decolonization of thinking? Key points of reference are self-criticism and the deconstruction of the white gaze onto the world, which has always been wrong and one-sided, but whose validity has only been challenged in recent decades." (From the introduction by Thorsten Sadowsky)The publication documents and continues the discourse initiated in 2021 with the two-part exhibition This World Is White No Longer by the Generali Foundation at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. The focus is on artistic positions that deal decidedly with questions of racism and xenophobia and examine the "change of perspective" as a method for questioning the supremacy of one's own worldview.Works by the artists Karo Akpokiere, Lothar Baumgarten, Danica Daki, Forensic Architecture, Samuel Fosso, Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, Alfredo Jaar, Voluspa Jarpa, Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski, Adrian Piper, Lisl Ponger, and Kara Walker are discussed. The publication also presents the new works developed in several months of intensive work by the Photography and New Media Class of the University Mozarteum Salzburg for a project exhibition at the Generali Foundation Study Center.

Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examines complex themes like hybrid identities, colonialism and power structures with unique irony. This richly illustrated catalogue focuses on three decades of his fascinating artistic oeuvre.

A colourful and fascinating artist personality is presented by Thorsten Sadowsky, the author of this volume, in a knowledgeable and lucid manner through examples of his works and the stations of his life.