The Mechanical Corps: On the Trail of Jules Verne

Edited by Peter Lang and Christophe Tannert

Exhibition catalogue published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 2014

Texts by Sven Drühl, Doreet LeVitte Harten, Peter Lang, Holger Reile, Stefan Riekeles, Thibaut de Ruyter, Christoph Tannert, and Radek Vana

Artists: Yoshi Akai, ATAK, Roland Boden, Jean-Pierre Bouvet, James Capper, Wendy Esmeralda Castillo, Jos de Vink, Stefan Fahrnländer, Eric Freitas, Roland Fuhrmann, Andreas Gerth, Gregor Hildebrandt, Karl Hans Janke, Thomas Kellner, Yunchul Kim, Alicja Kwade, Peter Langer, Via Lewandowsky, Florian Mertens, Gustav Mesmer, Moebius, Richard “Doc” Nagy, Nik Nowak, Donna Ong, Panamarenko, Michael Sailstorfer, Alexander Schlesier, Henrik Schrat, François Schuiten, Amanda Scrivener, Steam Noir, Haruo Suekichi, Philip Topolovac, Gerard van Lankveld, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Viron Erol Vert, Takashi Watabe, Bert Wrede, Ralf Ziervogel

German/English

18 x 26 cm, 224 p.

“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with its extreme acceleration and increasing concentration of information and global communication, aesthetic recourse to the world of the late nineteenth century is emerging in fine art, fashion and design, and films and comics. At the same time, the technical world is being miniaturised as nanoscience, and autonomous machines are regarded with ever growing certainty as a development that will dominate the future. A paradox of civilizing development emerges, which the curators Peter Lang and Christoph Tannert are questioning through art as well as non-art in this project.” (Künstlerhaus Bethanien)

I translated most texts from German to English or vice versa and did some additional proofreading.