| Status | Dissolved |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Defunct | 2016 |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Products |
Traumawien was an independent publishing house for conceptual digital literature founded in 2010 and dissolved in 2016. [1] [2]
Traumawien displayed print books of conceptual writers and artists such as Audun Mortensen, Ubermorgen, and Oswald Wiener [3] and published, among others, Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff's American Psycho, an experimental reworking of the classic American Psycho, [4] [5] [6] which was exhibited at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in 2012. [7]
In 2012 Traumawien completed their initial publication series with the e-book system 'Ghostwriters' on copyright and user exploitation. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
From 2013 to 2015 the publisher's event 'Artclub Rave Lecture [13] ' – a working synthesis of industrial techno and literary reading/lecture, dubbed by Deutschlandfunk as 'the most radical performance [14] ' at Europe's largest event for young literature Prosanova – became a Vienna club scene check-point.
In 2014 Traumawien created an ongoing series of post-digital products from Zazzle, an online merchandise print on demand service, customized with content appropriated from various social media. [15]
The prefix 'Post' was not be understood in the context of Post-Histoire or Post-Modernism but rather in the sense of Post-Punk. So therefore the continuation of a culture - the digital culture which manifests in the analog domain, the physical world. [16]
Also in 2014, a manifesto [17] in "Manifeste für eine Literatur der Zukunft" with Neue Rundschau/S. Fischer Verlag/Frankfurt was released. [18] [19]
The Post-Art Poets was a group of conceptual poets active between 2013 and 2014 (known members include Vanessa Place, Danny Snelson, and Luc Gross of Traumawien).
Three works are available as print-on-demand via Blurb. Other publications include Last Poets: A 9,999 page poem by The Poets Against Poetry (PDF), the conceptual anthology Fungible Poetics Inc. concerned with shared ownership and market logics (PDF), and 32 Words. An Anthology of Post-Art Anti-Poetics, whose imprint states “Appropriation, plagiarism, and counterpublishing are encouraged.” It is sold for $160. In 2014, the Post-Art Poets announced the end of their group on Twitter: “WE HAVE DISAPPEARED / TO BEGIN PREPARATIONS / FOR OUR REAPPEARANCE…” [20]
Meme Products were presented at 21erHaus Vienna Summer 2016. [21]
The publisher cites conceptual writer Vanessa Place as a crucial influence.
Traumawien dissolved in 2016. [2]
Jeu de Paume is an arts centre for modern and postmodern photography and media. It is located in the north corner of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. In 2004, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Centre national de la photographie and Patrimoine Photographique merged to form the Association Jeu de Paume.
UBERMORGEN.COM is a Swiss-Austrian-American artist duo founded in 1995 and consisting of lizvlx and Luzius Bernhard. They live and work in Basel, S-chanf near St. Moritz and in Vienna, where both are professors at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
William Rodney Graham was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School.
Paul Rosenberg was a French art dealer. He represented Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse. Both Paul and his brother Léonce Rosenberg were among the world's major dealers of modern art.
Peter Campus, often styled as peter campus, is an American artist and a pioneer of new media and video art, known for his interactive video installations, single-channel video works, and photography. His work is held in the collections of numerous public institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Tate Modern, Museo Reina Sofía, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and the Centre Georges Pompidou. The artist works on the south shore of Long Island.
Ruth Klüger was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller Weiter leben: Eine Jugend about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps.
American Psycho is a 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, Audible audiobooks, and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. The hardware platform, which Amazon subsidiary Lab126 developed, began as a single device in 2007. Currently, it comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms. All Kindle devices integrate with Windows and macOS file systems and Kindle Store content and, as of March 2018, the store had over six million e-books available in the United States.
Omer Fast is an Israeli contemporary artist.
Michel Poivert is a professor of the history of contemporary art and photography at the Sorbonne. He has taken a special interest in pictorialism, the subject of his doctorate thesis. From 1995 to 2010, he was president of Société française de photographie, the French Photography Society. In 2018, he founded the International College of Photography (CIP). In 2020, he was awarded Officier des Arts et des Lettres.
ASVOFF, or A Shaded View on Fashion Film, is a fashion film festival founded by journalist Diane Pernet. Since its 2008 debut at the Jeu de Paume National Gallery, it is a three-day festival event showcasing feature films, documentaries, conferences, performances and installations.
Joshua Mosley is an American artist and animator. He is Professor and Chair of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. His work is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2007 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize in Visual Arts and the 2005 Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
Laurent Grasso is a French conceptual artist living and working in Paris.
Aleida Assmann is a German professor of English and Literary Studies, who studied Egyptology and whose work has focused on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural and Communicative Memory.
Helmuth Gräff is an Austrian painter, drawer and poet. Gräffs painterly style is rooted on the one hand in the artistic heritage of Vincent van Gogh, and on the other hand he can also be regarded as a precursor or heritage of the Neuen Wilde.
Constant Dullaart is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator. His work is deeply connected to the Internet.
American Psycho is a conceptual novel by Jason Huff and Mimi Cabell, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Huff and Cabell emailed the text of the novel to each other's Gmail accounts one page at a time, collected the contextual advertisements generated for each of those pages, and presented those in book form.
Chantal Pontbriand is a Canadian curator and art critic whose work explores globalization and artistic heterogeneity. She has curated international contemporary art events: exhibitions, international festivals and international conferences, primarily in photography, video, performance, dance and multimedia installation.
Valérie Jouve is a contemporary French photographer, video artist, and director.
Helga Kreuter-Eggemann, née Helga Eggemann, was a German art historian involved in looting art in France during the Nazi occupation.
