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Prometheus Unbound

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    Source: www.moussepublishing.com Mousse Publishing. License: All Rights Reserved.

    What defines cultures? How enduring are they over time? And where are the origins of the foundations of what we regard today as European culture? The exhibition Prometheus Unbound at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz and the book that accompanies it examine questions that emerge as soon as the discussion turns to culture. Since ancient times, the titan who stole fire from the gods to give it to humanity has been regarded in the Western tradition as the creator of civilization and bringer of culture. His deeds embody the irreversibility of knowledge and possession of culture and underpin the notion of man as an autonomous being. Freed from his chains, Prometheus can be seen as a metaphor for a contemporary global history, one viewed from a perspective that reaches beyond the European matrix: Prometheus unbound has now fled to an open territory where it is no longer Western history that determines his direction. The artists presented here—Jonathas de Andrade (BR), Lothar Baumgarten (D), Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (IT), Friedemann von Stockhausen (D), Clemens von Wedemeyer (D), and Aimée Zito Lema (AR/NL)—chart thus far unexplored forms of knowledge and different systems of imagination, inspired by an ancient drama of ethical struggles, unresolved ambivalences, hubris, and damnation.

    The catalogue Prometheus Unbound includes original texts by Hartmut Böhme, Luigi Fassi, Jared Hickman, and Giovanni Leghissa that explore in depth the tradition of Prometheus from antiquity to present times. Edited by Luigi Fassi.

    Published by Mousse, 2017
    Designed by Matteo Gualandris
    The font in use is Lausanne (old version with alternate glyphs)
    English / German
    192 pages
    softcover, 12 × 19 cm
    ISBN 978–88–6749–305–0
    € 12

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