In his performances--which often extend over several weeks or months--the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (born 1976) explores not only his own physical and psychological limits and the themes of early performance art, but also the artist's status and the different images of his role. For his installation "The Schumann Machine" (2008), created for Manifesta 7, he spent several hours every day for two weeks singing the 1840 song cycle Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann. A characteristic feature of his performances are the many melancholy but also absurdly comical moments. This book, now in its second printing, unites for the first time all of Kjartansson's works related to music from 2001 to 2012. It includes contributions by Philip Auslander, Heike Munder, Markús πór Andrésson and a conversation between Edek Bartz and Ragnar Kjartansson.

Ragnar Kjartansson: To Music

Arts & Photography

Auslander, Philip

Andrésson, Markús

Bartz, Edek

Individual Artists

JRP|Ringier

Born in 1976, 2009 Venice Biennale artist Ragnar Kjartansson is a prolific performance artist and musician whose genre-bending installation/performances include music, video, painting, drawing and sculptural elements that careen between emotional extremes.

Ragnar Kjartansson: The End

Alemani, Cecilia

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Although the photographs of Katr n Elvarsd ttir (born 1964) are derived from locales in Hungary, Poland, Iceland, Denmark and the United States, they participate in a single world of deserted kitchens, dimly lit rooms and luminous curtains, punctuated occasionally by portraits of tremendous, stark candor. This volume records Elvarsd ttir's world in more than 40 color photographs.

Katrín Elvarsdóttir: Equivocal

Photography & Video

Crymogea

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