Bøger af Nav Haq

Sidestepping both identity politics and facile multiculturalism, this anthology argues for the embrace of social ambiguity through artMulticulturalism and pluralism presuppose a shared culture with shared values and convictions about, for example, openness, democracy and equality. Multiculturalism therefore in fact presumes a monoculture of views and attitudes. Being able to deal with ambiguities, differences and paradoxes is the outcome of a learning process and thus of cultivation. Art has played a pivotal role in this process since the dawn of modernity; the contemporary artist is a bricoleur, shaman and charlatan who prepares peculiar blends and creates indigestible cocktails, who has to play with cultural conventions if she or he is to be called an "artist" anyway. The Aesthetics of Ambiguity gives stage to art and artists that dare to play with the rules of a broader society and adopt ambiguity and paradoxes, and explores their successes and failures.

This Source Book combines critical essays and visual notes compiled by the Canadian-born, Berlin-based sculptor, installation and sound artist, over the course of a collaboration with composer and musician George van Dam and a TV script written by Christine Lang and Christoph Dreher.

Dedicated to the latest installation of Ellen Harvey, as well as the old masterpieces from the 17th to early 20th Century which punctuate the work.