1. plutoclub: NICHOLAS KAHN & RICHARD SELESNICK Title : Eisbergfreistadt Sub-Title : King of Birds  Year : 2011 Eisberfreistadt was conceived from the historical and often overlooked 1923 incident in which an iceberg drifted into the Baltic sea and ran aground off the German port of Lübeck. These images are true to the K/S style… allow the viewer to participate in this bizarre, unknown, historical event within our contemporary framework… we are drawn into a semi-ficticious world created by the artists, given very few clues about the actual event itself and forced to discern the line between fact and fiction. As Antoinette LeFarge states: “At the same time, I would argue that actualizing a fiction through objects and other entities removes that project from the realm of pure fiction. It is notable that the Eisbergfreistadt project (unlike some of Kahn and Selesnick’s earlier work) includes almost no explicit, written narrative, apart from a single newspaper clipping. Most of the narrative must be inferred by the viewer based on her prior knowledge of history, geography, and art.” VIA VIA  

    plutoclub:

    NICHOLAS KAHN & RICHARD SELESNICK

    Title : Eisbergfreistadt

    Sub-Title : King of Birds 

    Year : 2011

    Eisberfreistadt was conceived from the historical and often overlooked 1923 incident in which an iceberg drifted into the Baltic sea and ran aground off the German port of Lübeck. These images are true to the K/S style… allow the viewer to participate in this bizarre, unknown, historical event within our contemporary framework… we are drawn into a semi-ficticious world created by the artists, given very few clues about the actual event itself and forced to discern the line between fact and fiction.

    As Antoinette LeFarge states: “At the same time, I would argue that actualizing a fiction through objects and other entities removes that project from the realm of pure fiction. It is notable that the Eisbergfreistadt project (unlike some of Kahn and Selesnick’s earlier work) includes almost no explicit, written narrative, apart from a single newspaper clipping. Most of the narrative must be inferred by the viewer based on her prior knowledge of history, geography, and art.”

    VIA

    VIA

     

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