Anna Sophie Springer Bücher

In Zeiten der ökologisch-ökonomischen Krisen namens Anthropozän untersucht Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago koloniale naturhistorische Sammlungen auf ihre sich wandelnden Bedeutungen in der Gegenwart. Dieses Buch-als-Ausstellung ist Zeitreise und Ort der Begegnung: Als im 19. Jahrhundert europäische Naturforscher die Artenvielfalt der malaiische Welt erkundeten, wurde dort nicht nur die Theorie der Evolution durch natürliche Selektion in Schweiß und Fieberwahn formuliert, sondern auch bereits über Massenaussterben und Klimawandel sinniert. Was aber produzierten die nicht sehen wollenden Halluzinationen kolonialer Wissenschaftler in den Tropen? ─ Mit Beiträgen von Akademi Drone Indonesia, George Beccaloni, Iwank Celenk, Lucy Davis, Fred Langford Edwards, Christina Leigh Geros, Matthias Glaubrecht, Geraldine Juárez, Radjawali Irendra, James Russell, Mark von Schlegell, Slave Pianos, Anna- Sophie Springer, Zenzi Suhadi, Paulo Tavares, Rachel Thompson, Etienne Turpin, and Satrio Wicaksono. Design in Zusammenarbeit mit Katharina Tauer.

The bilingual publication "On Reconciliation / Über Versöhnung" explores the letters exchanged between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt from 1925 to 1975, serving as a foundation for essays and conversations that stimulate public debate on ethics and artistic production. Central to this discourse is Arendt's notion of "reconciliation," viewed as a political judgment that, unlike revenge or forgiveness, addresses wrongs in a manner that supports the creation and maintenance of a shared world. García posits that Arendt developed the concept of reconciliation to cope with the post-World War II landscape and to justify her unwavering loyalty to Heidegger, rooted in youthful affection and her enduring commitment to his work. Heidegger, a controversial figure due to his affiliation with the Nazi party, is regarded as a pivotal philosopher of the twentieth century, while Arendt, a German Jew who escaped the Holocaust, emerged as a prominent social, historical, and political theorist. Through various formats, including exhibitions, performances, public dialogues, and collaboration with K. Verlag, the publication raises a critical question: Should authors be held to moral standards alongside professional excellence, and does a failure to meet contemporary ethical expectations warrant the dismissal of their work?

Land & Animal & Nonanimal turns the attention from the built space of cultural repositories to the postnatural landscapes of planet Earth. In his interview about urban soils of the Anthropocene, landscape architect Seth Denizen considers a history of land use practices that is also reflected in artist Robert Zhao Renhui’s photographs of Singapore as a scenario of continuous development. Inspired by a recent visit to the environment of Wendover in the Utah desert, Richard Pell and Lauren Allen of Pittsburgh’s Center for PostNatural History make a case for a postnatural imprint upon the geologic aspects inherent in the concept of the Anthropocene. By encountering “the last snail,” environmental historicist and philosopher Thom van Dooren considers the meaning of hope and care in the context of species extinction. And while curator Natasha Ginwala’s paginated series with contributions by Bianca Baldi, Arvo Leo, Axel Staschnoy, and Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne turns to cosmological and ancestral human-animal scenarios, sound artist and researcher Mitchell Akiyama explores philosophies of consciousness against the background of the phonogram in nineteenth-century simian research.

"Fantasies of the library is a sequence of pages wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns--rather surprisingly, but with growing conviction--that the library is not only a curatorial space, but that its bibliological imaginary is also fertile territory for the exploration of consequential paginated affairs." Cf. introductory text