Jens Hoffmann - Böcker

Public figures require attention, whether from a constituency who votes them in or out of office, shareholders who decide their economic benefit to the corporation, or fans who judge their performances. However, on the periphery of this normal attention resides a very real risk; that of a much smaller group of individuals who lack the ability to discriminate between their own private fantasies and the figure's public behavior. They may be personally insulted by perceived betrayal, fanatically in love due to a perceived affectionate or sexual invitation, or simply preoccupied with the daily life of the public figure. Such individuals may fixate and do nothing more. Others communicate or approach in a disturbing way. A few will threaten. And on rare occasions, one will breach the public figure's security perimeter and attack. Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures is a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge about stalking, violence risk, and threat management towards public figures. With contributions from forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, clinicians, researchers, attorneys, profilers, and current and former law enforcement enforcement professionals, this book is the first of its kind, international in scope, and rich in both depth and complexity. The book is divided into three sections which, in turn, focus upon defining, explaining, and risk managing this increasingly complex global reality. Chapters include detailed case studies, analyses of quantitative data, reflections from attachment theory and psychoanalytic thought, descriptions of law enforcement and protective organization activities, mental health and psychiatric categorizations and understandings, consideration of risk assessment models and variables, victim perspectives, and others.

A fascinating account of the avant-garde photo-based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished imagesFinalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts categoryFollowing the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of style and technological innovation but also radical in their integration of art and politics. Filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Esfir Shub pioneered cinematic techniques for works intended to mobilize viewers.   Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, The Power of Pictures considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New YorkExhibition Schedule:Jewish Museum, New York(09/25/15–02/02/16)Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville(03/11/16–07/04/16)Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam(07/24/16–11/27/16)

This wide-ranging and thought-provoking compilation explores the idea of nonconformity in art, religion, and philosophy. The book features 55 contemporary artists who work outside the norms of current practice, alongside both newly commissioned and previously published texts which, taken together, provide an astute sampling of recent perspectives on art and ideas.  Among the artists whose work is featured are Margit Anna, Clayton Bailey, Tony Cox, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Birgit Megerle, Philip Smith, and Keiichi Tanaami.  The accompanying texts include classic works by Sigmund Freud and Leo Steinberg, reprinted with new commentary by Mark Edmundson and Joshua Decter, respectively; a recent essay on unorthodoxy in Judaism by Alan T. Levenson with a response by Jack Wertheimer; and a previously unpublished meditation on Aby Warburg’s art history by Georges Didi-Huberman. Distributed for the Jewish Museum, New YorkExhibition Schedule:Jewish Museum, New York11/06/15-03/27/16

Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance is inspired by the vital history of music in Detroit and the legacy of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. It connects Detroit’s musical and political histories with a wide range of artworks, music ephemera and artifacts to offer a listening space for the rebellion’s reverberations. This historic event is related to more recent social movements, from Occupy to Black Lives Matter, illustrating threads between past protests and the unresolved racial politics in the United States today. One major thread is the role of music as a catalyst for social change and empowerment. Artists include Andrea Bowers, Tim Davis, Emory Douglas, Juliana Huxtable, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Leni Sinclair and Mickalene Thomas.

Americana: 50 States, 50 Months, 50 Exhibitions was a long-term presentation consisting of 50 displays, each approximately one month long, exhibited between January 2011–May 2012 and coorganized by Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann and CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. The title is a reference to an exhibition of the same name that was curated by the artist collective Group Material at the 1985 Whitney Biennial. Each month’s display examined an American state, in alphabetical order by state name. Through artworks, historical artifacts, curiosities and other elements, Americana focuses on overlooked and little-known aspects of each state. Americana examines the states as they are today, looking at how America’s social and political imperatives condition the production, presentation and interpretation of art and exhibition making. The brisk pace of the 50 displays reflects the varied and constantly changing fabric of this relatively young country and its multilayered, shifting national identity.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s show 99¢ or Less gathers 99 American artists addressing Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis, its 2013 bankruptcy and its role as an industrial powerhouse. The participating artists, among them John Baldessari, Brian Belott, Sarah Crowner, Michelle Grabner, Rob Pruitt and Amy Sillman, use materials from 99 cent stores.

"Stalking" ist mittlerweile ein bekannter Fachbegriff, der synonym mit "obsessiver Verfolgung" und "obsessiver Belästigung" gebraucht wird. – Aber was genau ist "Stalking"? Endlose Briefe, Telefonate und E-Mails, Auflauern und Verfolgen, Drohungen und Liebesbekundungen: Es gibt keine spezifische Verhaltensweise, die bei Stalking immer präsent ist – aber im Kern geht es immer um ein einseitiges Kontaktstreben: Einer will, dass der andere an ihn denkt, der andere möchte ihn aus dem Gedächtnis verbannen.Hoffmann, der als der deutsche Stalking-Experte gilt, zeigt die unterschiedlichen Facetten von Stalking auf. Als theoretischer Hintergrund dienen psychologische Theorien der Bindungsforschung und Lerntheorie. Für Fachleute und Betroffene relevant sind die Analysen, wie gefährlich Stalking in extremen Ausprägungen werden kann und was dagegen getan werden kann.

Kinofilme wie "Das Schweigen der Lämmer" oder Serien wie "Für alle Fälle Fitz" stellen Profiler als allwissende Spezialermittler dar, ein Mythos, der mit der Arbeitsrealität der psychologischen Ermittler nur wenig zu tun hat.