Companion #09: A rock that keeps tigers away
2017
Kunstverein München e.V. and Roma Publications
German / English, softcover, 224 pages, 11,9 x 16,9 cm
ISBN 978-9491843969
Edited by Post Brothers, Hasan Veseli, Chris Fitzpatrick, and Julie Peeters
Texts by Claudia Blum, Heinz von Foerster, Sigfried Großmann, Katrine Dybbroe Møller, Timothy Morton, Francesco Pedraglio, Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Shaviro, Julian Sigmund, and Doug Zongker; with an interview between Post Brothers, Chris Fitzpatrick, and Hasan Veseli
Designed by Julie Peeters
The ninth in the Companion series, this 224-page publication contains the theoretical grounding for A rock that keeps tigers away – a group exhibition at Kunstverein München, with work by Beth Collar, Tania Pérez Córdova, Jason Dodge, Laura Kaminskaitė, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Francesco Pedraglio, Adrien Tirtiaux, Freek Wambacq, and Herwig Weiser. The publication contains texts (in either German or English) by Claudia Blum, Heinz von Foerster, Sigfried Großmann, Katrine Dybbroe Møller, Timothy Morton, Francesco Pedraglio, Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Shaviro, Julian Sigmund, and Doug Zongker, which wrap an extensive interview with the exhibition's main curator Post Brothers, conducted by the Kunstverein's director Chris Fitzpatrick, and with contributions from the publication's co-editor Hasan Veseli (in English and German). A collection of quotes from comedians, writers, and philosophers, transcriptions from episodes of the television programs, Sesame Street, The Simpsons, and The West Wing, a charting of the development of the 'Chicken or the Egg' debate in popular media, and artistic interventions by Beth Collar, Laura Kaminskaitė, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Gianni Motti, Julie Peeters, Tyler Vigen, and Freek Wambacq are also contained in the publication.
