Dirk Luckow – författare

The Psycho-Geography of Our Urban Existence Since the 1990s, artist and filmmaker Sarah Morris has created a body of work that has been inspired by her interest in the psychology of urban environments. Her complex abstractions, which derive their vivid colors from each city’s unique vocabulary and palette, trace the social and bureaucratic topologies of contemporary cities to reveal the architecturally encoded politics. In her films—a parallel practice intimately intertwined with her painting—Morris further explores the psycho-geography and the dynamic nature of cities in flux through multi-layered and fragmented narratives. She purposely leaves her work open for interpretation, conveying a heightened sense to the viewer of both our complicity in a larger system and an increasingly disorienting experience of modern urban existence. Featuring more than 60 paintings, including impressions of the 15 films to date, drawings, as well as an in-depth interview with the artist and two major essays, the catalogue offers the first comprehensive overview of Morris’s oeuvre.

Survival is a common practice. We cannot do it alone; we need each other. We need tools and practices that help us to connect, to understand to build, to survive in this age of climate crisis, technological upheaval, existential pain. We need words and values and ideas that extend beyond the human space. We need to learn; and we need to unlearn. We need a Manual for Survival. Ways of surviving together in an experimental and solidarity-based manner – this book wants to make other world designs accessible through and beyond artistic practice. The art in this book reflects on the nature, the planetary, transcendental questions of global connectivity as well as on community, a sense of playfulness, togetherness, shared experiences through culture. A high quality and richly illustrated book with innovative texts following the idea that we have to learn to live and think in contradictions without losing ourselves. Artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Yalda Afsah, Abbas Akhavan, Assemble, Mohammed Bourouissa, Andrea Bowers, James Bridle, Sam Chermayeff, Edith Dekyndt, Simon Denny, Cao Fei, Liam Gillick, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lubiana Himid, Leon Kahane, Kablusiak, Paul Kolling, Carolyn Lazard, Sharon Lockhart, Taus Makhacheva, Shaun Motsi, Goshka Macuga, Jota Mombaça, New Red Order (NRO), Olaf Nicolai, Christelle Oyiri, Celine Pages & Christine Marchal, Trevor Paglen, Grayson Perry, Bruno Serralongue, Jeremy Shaw, Charles Stankievech, Ron Terada, Syrus Marcus Ware, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, et al.