Drone and Apocalypse Drone and Apocalypse

Drone and Apocalypse

An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World

    • £5.99
    • £5.99

Publisher Description

Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are “speculative artworks”, Wey’s term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Wey’s favorite musicians are drone artists like William Basinski, Celer, Thomas Köner, Les Rallizes Dénudés, and Éliane Radigue, and her essays relate their works to moments of ineffability in Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Robert Burton, Hegel, and Dostoyevsky. Well after Wey’s demise, the apocalypse never arrives, but Wey’s journal is discovered. Curators fascinated with twenty-first-century culture use her writings as the basis for their exhibit “Commentaries on the Apocalypse”, which realizes Wey’s speculative artworks as photographs, collages, and sound/video installations.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2015
11 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
120
Pages
PUBLISHER
John Hunt Publishing
SIZE
7.4
MB
Babbling Corpse Babbling Corpse
2016
Ghosts of My Life Ghosts of My Life
2014
Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000 - 2014 Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000 - 2014
2014
The Machine Stops The Machine Stops
2015
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
2011
Hey, Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone! Hey, Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone!
2012
Listening through the Noise Listening through the Noise
2010
Anatomy of Thought-Fiction Anatomy of Thought-Fiction
2017
The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
2018
Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain
2019
Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem
2022
Electronic Music and Sound Design Electronic Music and Sound Design
2020
The Order of Sounds The Order of Sounds
2016
The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition
2023