Smoke, Birds, Pun, Crisis. A Dialogic Glossary
Language is always there: before and after and
all over the place. We’re not writing this glossary for the fun of it. But omnipresence
and causality are two different pairs of shoes. The works play cat and mouse with these shoes, as they present the viewer
with the most commonplace and charged symbols: apples and hearts. But they are woven into such intricate
conjuring strategies that even these otherwise so unshakeable archetypes lose
their logical narratives. They demand new patterns with which to tie the shoes:
ways of looking at things (and thus: ways of acting, ways of being) that cannot
just be pigeonholed in well-known and familiar language, but which much rather
shimmer indecisively.
A glossary on the
work of Magdalena Kreinecker
in dialogue with Simon Nagy and guests:
Sofie Dederen
Julia Haugeneder
Barbara Juch
Yemo Park
Katrin Pirner
Maria Ritter
︎︎︎ Textem
︎︎︎ Leseprobe German
︎︎︎ Audioboook
︎︎︎ Pocket Version Audiobook + Video (german)
Editors: Magdalena Kreinecker,Simon Nagy
Format: Big Book 26 x 20 cm, Insert 16 x 23 cm
Print Run: 500
Publisher: Textem Verlag, Schäferstraße 26,
D-20357 Hamburg
with texts by: Sofie Dederen, Julia Haugeneder, Magdalena Kreinecker,
Barbara Juch, Simon Nagy, Yemo Park, Katrin Pirner and Maria Ritter
Translation to English: Miriam Stoney
German Proofreading: Irene Machnitzke
English Proofreading & Translation (31. Game, 53. Memory): Sonja
Riegler
Design: Theresa Hattinger
Lithography: Florian Regl
Print & Binding: Gugler Medien GmbH, Melk/Donau, Austria
Documentation: Marlene Mautner
In
this book, there are 62 terms packed into a suitcase in a not-at-all accidental
order. Blueprint ←, Heart ←, Container ←: within this frame ←, in a dialogue
between Magdalena Kreinecker and Simon Nagy and lots of images, as well as through
the invitation of several guests, a wide variety of text types, all revolving around
M.’s work, can be found.
Many
of them describe the technical processes of production. Some start off from
individual artworks in order to secretly ← weave ← in other references; others
take a certain pleasure ← in telling totally different stories from the get-go.
Through many attempts, in a centrifugal logic of reference, they (the stories,
the terms) attempt to capture what often seems unwieldy, complicated, incomprehensible,
mysterious: artistic practice.
In all this madness ←, a game ← promises help: ›the green snakes help you to
move forward.‹ Perhaps to a field where you will have a good day in the studio
or where you will eat ice cream with friends. Later, having landed in the orchard
←, you take your small towel and swimming
goggles, you peek through the blinds ← and then, you go inside: Smoke, Birds, Pun, Crisis is a dialogic glossary
around the work of Magdalena Kreinecker, and, equally, an illustration of her
method of working: a collaboration ← of many.
