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Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world Joanna Demers

Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world By Joanna Demers

Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world by Joanna Demers


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An imagined retrospective of apocalyptic art

Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world Summary

Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world by Joanna Demers

Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are speculative artworks, Wey's term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Wey's favorite musicians are drone artists like William Basinski, Celer, Thomas Koner, Les Rallizes Denudes, and Eliane Radigue, and her essays relate their works to moments of ineffability in Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Robert Burton, Hegel, and Dostoyevsky. Well after Wey's demise, the apocalypse never arrives, but Wey's journal is discovered. Curators fascinated with twenty-first-century culture use her writings as the basis for their exhibit Commentaries on the Apocalypse, which realizes Wey's speculative artworks as photographs, collages, and sound/video installations.

About Joanna Demers

Joanna Demers is associate professor of musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she specializes in post-1945 popular and art music.

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GOR012529574
9781782799948
178279994X
Drone and Apocalypse - An exhibit catalog for the end of the world by Joanna Demers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Hunt Publishing
20151211
120
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