Article Number: 8923
Soft Cover, English, Glue Binding, 114 Pages, 2016
Alina Lupu

,you asshole.

€ 13.40

“You Asshole” is an essay that explores artistic personalities that fall outside the pattern of the art world.

In three different chapters, Alina Lupu aims to address various ways of engaging with the marginal, from the standpoint, also by embodying the artists on which she attempts to touch with her writing, by using their methods and appropriating their projects on a much smaller scale. One could read this essay as a manifesto of a young artist, at the moment of completing her artistic education and making her first steps outside an institutional framework, employed in her most recent work: ‘Visit Condition’, 2016 (visible mobile surveillance system, sound piece and four museum guards on daily shifts).
“Stretch it: Martin Kippenberger, Danh Vo” is the title of the first chapter and it deals with the notions of fitting in and being right on the edge. It does not matter how you get somewhere, according to Alina Lupu. Text follows numbers, while fragments of news reports, interviews or memories – fabricated or not- intersect each other on almost every page. Art and politics are a lead, a clue in getting closer to Kippenberger via Joseph Beuys and America. There is a vigorously back and forth movement, from waiting on a train platform, to the S-bahn, to the bus, to the airport and back on the bus.

Language: English