Grabeland (Paperback)

Hajoe Moderegger

ISBN 10: 1643620134 / ISBN 13: 9781643620138

Published by Nightboat Books, New York, 2020

About this Item

Paperback. *Of interest to artists and others engaged in: artist novels, relational, participatory and community art, people interested in social practice and socially engaged art, people interested in relational art, people interested in art on a communal level, emerging artists in these fields, anthropologists interested in the generational gap between generations, ecologists interested in the intersection of community and environment, people with a German/American background or an interest in either or, immigrants or emigrants in general who juggle "new" and "old" identities, immigrants and emigrants who juggle between two cultural contexts, people who have grown up in a rural context and are spending their adult lives in a big city, people who like to read travel literature, people who like to read about explorers.*Hajoe is the program Director of the DIAP program at The City College, NY*Both hold MFAs in Fine Arts from Bauhaus University.*Both authors have been artists in residence separately and together at many prestigious residency programs i.e. Academy of Visual Art Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, MacDowell Colony, *Prizes, Fellowships and Awards: Creative Capital Grant, The Fence Modern Prize in Prose, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, NYSCA Artist Grants*Themes: land, land use, rural communities, stereotypes, physical labor vs. conceptual/intellectual work, city vs. village, Germany and America, the immigrant's experience in the new country and returning "home", gardening and growing, aging, home, borders, time and speed, vehicles to travel, worlds of traveling, value, idle time and preoccupation, the role of others (otherness), role-playing, projections, perceived realities, the weather, water, provisions, service, tradition, heritage, communication and mis-communication, etc An engaging art novel turned travel guide, not to places, but to ways and worlds of travel Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grabeland (Paperback)
• Publisher: Nightboat Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1643620134
• ISBN 13: 9781643620138
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Grabeland takes place in a country that no longer exists, in a culture rooted in soil and projections. Like a travelogue, the story tours the inner exiles of its characters as they test the limitations of their actual existence. Focusing on Germany and The United States, Grabeland dramatizes the formation of national identity and ultimately its dissolution through an accumulation of personal and collective experiences, anecdotes, accidents, propaganda, falsifications, histories, victimizations, inventions, dreams, and hopes.

About the Author

Since 2001 eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) traffic in transience. At the intersection of relational aesthetics, the Internet and land art, eteam coordinates collective happenings and conceptual transactions between the earthly plane and the realms of the interweb, often reconstructed in hypnotic video work, radio plays, or more recently novellas. Their projects have been featured at PS1 NY, MUMOK Vienna, Centre Pompidou Paris, Transmediale Berlin, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, New York Video Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, the 11th Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others. eteam has received grants from Art in General, NYSCA, Rhizome, Creative Capital and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and were residents at the CLUI, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.