Synopsis

Drawing on theories of performativity and mythopoeia, Anselm explores concepts of genesis, genre, reproduction and origination, and situates them in an age where world-systemic relations of extraction and power give way to a novel‚ food-chain brutalism, on whose shores the founding myths and gestures of all times are washed up like undead flotsam. Seeking to redefine the role of culture, the arts and the cosmographic exhibition and museum in bringing about a ‘global consciousness‘ in the aftermath of Western universalism, he interrogates forms of agency and intervention within what must be properly understood as ‘cosmogonic crises‘.

About Anselm Franke

Anselm is a curator and author. From 2013 to the end of 2022 he was head of the visual arts and film department at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). He is known for developing the format of the ‘essay exhibition’, which consists of extensive research-based forays into political and cultural histories and current artistic production. He also curated, among other things: the Taipei Biennale 2012, the Shanghai Biennale 2014 and Forum Expanded at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since August 2022, he has been Professor of Curatorial Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts.

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