Animism

by Anselm Franke (editor)

When Anselm Franke curated this exhibition on the role of aesthetic processes in the drawing of the boundaries between humans and things, the animate and the inanimate, he ranged far and wide. From Marcel Broodthaers to Walt Disney, Louise Lawler to Victor Grippo (the father of conceptual art in Argentina), Lebanese film master Harun Farocki to Rosemarie Trockel (and many others), this exhibition catalog from Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen does more than document the show. It includes an active dialogue among artists and thinkers on the subject of the effects of animation and mummification, the relationship between nature and culture, ''persons'' and ''things.'' Franke brings together artistic and theoretical perspectives that reflect on the boundary between subjects and objects.

Genres: Art

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Anselm Franke lives and works in Berlin as a curator and author. He has been the head of the Department of Visual Arts and Film at Haus der Kulturen der Welt since 2013. He previously worked as a curator at KW Berlin and as director of the Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp. In 2005 he and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus founded the Forum Expanded for the Berlin International Film Festival of which he has been co-curator since. He was the chief curator of the Taipei Biennial in 2012 and of the Shanghai Biennale in 2014. His exhibition project Animism was shown from 2009 until 2014 in collaboration with various partners in Antwerp, Berne, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Shenzhen, Seoul and Beirut. Franke received his doctorate from Goldsmiths College, London.