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ARNOLD DREYBLATT

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Klangkust, 2024

Perceiving Through All Senses: Klangkunst
Sound - Space - Media - Body

Edited by Stefan Fricke | Edited by Oh Hyunju | Interview with Arnold Dreyblatt | Interview with Christina Kubisch | Interview with Bernhard Leitner | Interview with Helga de la Motte-Haber | Interview with Franz Martin

200 Pages, Color Photographs
Artbook Press, November 18, 2024

Bookmarks / Lesezeichen, 2023

Jakob Wassermann, German and Jew

Jüdisches Museum Franken / The Jewish Museum Franconia
First edition 2023

Accompanying book to the exhibition of the same name by Arnold Dreyblatt in the Jewish Museum Franconia, May 23rd - November 26th, 2023

German / English

Text Contributions:
Arnold Dreyblatt
Dr. Daniela F. Eisenstein
Dr. Kurt Winkler
Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek

17 x 24 cm; 96 Pages`
Quotes and excerpts from :
Jakob Wassermann: My Life as German and Jew, New York: Coward McCann Inc., 1933

Edited by:
Arnold Dreyblatt
Daniela F. Eisenstein
Alisha Meininghaus

Translation:
Tim Corbett

Grafik / Graphic design
Katja Raithel, zur.gestaltung, Nürnberg

Photos:
Arnold Dreyblatt, Annette Kradisch, Thomas Andermatten, Roman März, Jens Ziehe

Druck / Printing
Onlineprinters GmbH

ISBN 978-3-9825997-0-0

Last Europeans?, 2023

42 pages, German/English

Published by:
Jüdisches Museum München \ Jewish Museum Munich
En Museum der Landeshauptstadt München
Februar 2023

Texts by: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Bernhard Purin, Sarah Steinborn Photos by: Arnold Dreyblatt, Jens Weber, Eva Jünger, Tom Gundelwein, Waldemar Kremser, Jens Ziehe and Daniel Schvarcz

The publication documents Dreyblatt's installation: "Last Europeans?" which was comissioned as part of the exhibition: “The Last Europeans. Jewish Perspectives on the Crises of an Idea”, curated by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Michaela Feurstein-Prasser. The work is in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, Munich.

"For the current exhibition "The Last Europeans. Jewish Perspectives on the Crises of an Idea," the Berlin-based American artist and composer Arnold Dreyblatthat created an installation specifically to artfully address the "Ideas of Europe." Three large-format lenticular prints each contain up to six layers of text that can be seen fragmentarily from different viewing positions. As in a deconstructed palimpsest, they seem to "overwrite" each other and simulate movement. The eluding text layers consist of carefully selected quotations from European intellectuals, each in German, English, and the language of hope, Esperanto."

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Black Mountain College as Multiverse, 2022

Published by Verlag Kettler, 2022

Ed.: Arnold Dreyblatt, Petra Maria Meyer

Softcover, 560 pages | 21 x 29 cm, English
ISBN: 978-3-86206-983-5 | August 2022 | 75,00 €



* Comprehensive examination of the BMC’s educational model

* An attempt to understand and reinvigorate the BMC’s legacy

* With a focus on the art project “PERFORMING the Black
Mountain ARCHIVE” by Arnold Dreyblatt at the Hamburger
Bahnhof Museum, Berlin and Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel

The Black Mountain College (BMC) in North Carolina was the leading institution for interdisciplinary arts education in the late 1940s. The curriculum included not only the fine arts, architecture and theatre, but also economics, physics and history. Many of America’s foremost artists, poets and designers of the time, as well as numerous emigrants from Germany who came to the Black Mountain College from the Bauhaus after it was closed by the Nazis, were among the teaching staff. The goal of the BMC was to establish a democratic and – in accordance with John Dewey’s principles of progressive education – experience-based, interdisciplinary teaching institute.

This publication is the first to examine the BMC’s educational model, its philosophical approaches and John Dewey’s philosophy of art with the aim of comprehensively understanding and reviving the BMC’s legacy in order to renew it in a participatory sense.

A major focus of this volume is the art project “PERFORMING the Black Mountain ARCHIVE” by Arnold Dreyblatt, in which students from European art academies were invited to translate an archive on the Black Mountain College created by Dreyblatt into the present time through performative interaction

with Texts contributions by:
PETRA MARIA MEYER, ARNOLD DREYBLATT, MARC RÖLLI, YOUNGBIN LEE, LYUBOV BUGAEVA, ANNA SCHAPIRO, TORSTEN BLUME, INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR DANCE BERLIN (HZT), MELANIE SEHGAL, JISU JEONG, YOUNKYUNG LEE, EUGEN BLUME, OSWALD EGGER, VERSATORIUM, VALERIAN MALY, WIEBKE WOLKENHAUER, JOHANNA GOSSE

Memory Palace Leuk, 2022

A Living Archive

(Dt: Gedächtnispalast Leuk, Ein Lebendiges Archiv"

294 Pages, Black and White, Color Photos
Texts by Sibylle Omelin, Carlo Schmidt, Arnold Dreyblatt

Published 2022 by Schloss Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland
Documention of the Project of the same name by Arnold Dreyblatt at Schloss Leuk (Wallis) in 2018
Design: zerodesign CH

Lapse. 2018

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Catalog to the exhibition “Lapse” in Museolaboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy, 1—30 September 2018

Lux 03. Published 2018, 62 pages with color photographs.

Graphic Design: Fabio Perletta, Mote Studio, Berlin

@ 2018 Lux, all right reserved
Lux is a research program between contemporary music and visual art. A project to promote a different form of art, in the context of museums/galleries conceived as artistic spaces of knowledge.

Essays:
”Persistence” by Marco Marzuoli 
“Navigations and Interferences”, Arnold Dreyblatt

A site specific audio-visual exhibition by composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt. Curated by Marco Marzuoli and supervised by director Enzo de Leonibus as part of the Lux series at Museolaboratorio Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Citta’ Sant’Angelo (PE) Italy, September 1 to September 30, 2018. The exhibition, installed in eight spaces within the Museolaboratorio, explored the relationship of Dreyblatt’s early video work from the 1970’s to his research into string vibration and to his emerging career as a composer within an immersive exploration of visual and audio perception.  Lux 03  1—30 September 2018

Curated by Marco Marzuoli

Coordinated by Enzo De Leonibus

Infinite Record: Archive, Memory and Performance, 2016

Editors: Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann & Karmenlara Ely

202 pages
8.5 x 11 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1-936767-41-0

Texts by and about Arnold Dreyblatt:
Connecting the Dots………Arnold Dreyblatt
Connectivity Chorus………Maiya R. Geddes, with Arnold Dreyblatt and Anna Köhler
Living Archive: Artistic Concepts that Topographize the Ephemeral………Petra Maria Meyer

Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance documents an international artistic research project initiated by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College and funded in part by the National Program for Artistic Research in Norway.  The point of departure was set by three world-renowned artists—Arnold Dreyblatt, Louise Höjer, and Wen Hui—each of whom approach archival work from different artistic perspectives. Working in Fredrikstad, these artists were able to create a gravitational field extending beyond the boundaries of the art world and Norway. Various symposia, hosted by Norwegian Theatre Academy and the partner universities—Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel (Germany), and York St John University (UK)—brought together artists and academics with a common interest in these three artists and in the broad subjects of archive, memory, and performance. Within this book the reader will find essays, photographs, fiction, poetry, music, and other works of art documenting the project, its artistic productions, and the scholarship surrounding it. One will also encounter a complex project architecture, inviting the reader to get lost in the layers of Infinite Record’s reflective archival methods emerging from contrasting perspectives. 

Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism 2016

by David Houston Jones, Associate Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture, University of Essex
Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies, Taylor & Francis Ltd

198 pages | 20 B/W Illus.
ISBN-10: 1138777420
ISBN-13: 978-1138777422

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. The Beckett Effect: the Intermedial Archive
2. The Archival Testimonial: Mirosław Bałka’s How It Is
3. The Relational Archive: Silvia Kolbowski and Eija-Liisa Ahtila
4. The Personal Archive: from Christian Boltanski to Lifelogging
5. The Archive and the Informational Sublime: Arnold Dreyblatt.
Conclusion.

Terry Fox. Elemental Gestures, 2015

ed. by Arnold Dreyblatt and Angela Lammert.

Texts by René Block, Kathleen Bühler, Nikola Doll, Arnold Dreyblatt, Beate Eickhoff, Terry Fox, Constance Lewallen, Angela Lammert, David A. Ross, Bern Schulz, Lisa Steib.

In cooperation with the Musée des Beaux-Arts Mons, the von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal and the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin has launched an exhibition project that opens up completely new perspectives on the current discussion about the appropriate museum presentation of temporary artistic interventions. The sensational discovery of previously unpublished, at best rarely shown video and photographic material from the early years, as well as the inclusion of work notes, allow the oeuvre of Terry Fox to be re-evaluated. The catalog also contains a detailed catalog raisonné of a wide variety of expressive forms and puts life video actions, photography as an instrument of documentation, and interview recordings into a meaningful relationship. In this way, the project addresses central questions that are equally relevant to artists, curators, critics, and theorists.

2015, Kettler Publishers. ISBN 978-3-86206-515-8

Format (W x L): 21.5 x 27.4 cm, Weight: 1234 g

Zeitkapsul, 2015

26 Recollections
Eine Ausstellung im ehemaligen Marinelazarett im Anscharpark Kiel.
Herausgeber: Prof. Arnold Dreyblatt,  Muthesius Kunsthochschule
Redaktion: Arnold Dreyblatt

Verlag: Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel 2015.
ISBN978-3-943763-39-3

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung:
Logos. Zukunftsprogrammund PAKT
Baugenossenschaften der Anscharpark GbR (wankendorfer, WOGE, GWU, bgm) (als Text, keine Logos)

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
146 S. : überw. Ill. ; 24 cm, 422 g

In Kooperation mit: Logos: Kunstverein Haus 8, Atelierhaus, HBS SH, radius of art

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Vorsicht!, 2014

Newspaper cover was commissioned by the Berliner Zeitung for the  Sunday Sept. 9, 2014 Special Edition

25,7 x 36,9 cm

Special Issue relates to the history of Jews in Berlin.

A Classification for Cataloguing and Arranging the Contents of a Library, 2015

“Ich habe mir das Paradies immer als eine Art Bibliothek vorgestellt”, Artistic Proposals for the Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin

Editors: Katherina Hohmann und Christiane den Hoevel
Revolver Publishing, Berlin

book biblio Berlin 2014, 140 pages, ill., 12 x 18,5 cm, softcover, German/English/French with translations into German, ISBN ISBN 978-3-95763-252-4 {Available} 

“A Classification for Cataloguing and Arranging the Contents of a Library” is based on the original explication of Melvil Dewey’s library classification system, first published as a pamphlet in the United States in 1876. As one of the earliest reformist schemes for American libraries, it formed the basis for most library classification systems now in use.  By means of erasure and juxtoposition, descriptive and organizational context has been re-imagined for a fictional library.

Contributions by 22 Artists: Bettina Allamoda • Arnold Dreyblatt • Eckhard Etzold • Nina Fischer / Maroan El Sani • Ceel Mogami de Haas • Adib Fricke • Aloïs Godinat • Kurt Grunow / Harry Walter • Katharina Hohmann • Christiane ten Hoevel • Kirsten Johannsen • Marine Kaiser • Stefan Krüskemper • Juliane Laitzsch • Seraphina Lenz • Isa Melsheimer / Annette Kisling • Michaela Nasoetion • Inken Reinert • Eva-Maria Schön • Ambroise Tièche • Stella Veciana • Ella Ziegler

 

 

Spuren, Höhlräume, Leerstellen, 2013

Vitrine Installations: Jewish Life on the Kürfurstendamm Berlin, 1933-45
Documention of the Exhibition Project

UdK Berlin 2014
127 Seiten, zahlr. Ill. ISBN 978-3-89462- 251-0
Best.-Nr. 0641, 9,00 €

The collaboration between the Archives of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Museum and the Institute for Art in Context at the University of the Arts in Berlin was directly related to the results of specific research. The historical context was very concrete in terms of its' locality and time: Jewish life on the Kurfürstendamm during the period of National Socialism.  During several workshops, the artists had the opportunity to develop their themes using archive materials.

 “In his work "Eine vornehme Wohnung: ein Angebot" (“Exclusive Apartment - On offer“) Arnold Dreyblatt finds a way to give immediate presence to an historical event, the auction of a complete household, including furniture, artworks, dishes, cutlery and personal items, which took place in Berlin in the late 1930ties. He succeeds in doing so by displaying the auctioneer's lists of the items in more or less the same manner they probably have been displayed in the historical moment: by advertising techniques in an advertising show-case placed on Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm. However, different to usual advertising, his installation hides partly the content of the vitrine,– thus triggering the curiosity of the passersby – involves them in what has been a catastrophe for the presumably Jewish family which had to give up its  household. By his installation, Arnold Dreyblatt, activates what I address as an awareness of history in a given presence, a form of remembering quite different to the common historical consciousness, which reflects on history in a more or less noncommittal way.” – Dr. Michael Fehr

Name That Thing, 2012

Name That Thing : im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 16. Mai - 15. September 2013 ; [ein Ausstellungsprojekt] / Studenten der Medienklasse der Muthesius-Kunsthochschule Kiel; Arnold Dreyblatt In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
978-3-943763-25-6

Herausgeber: Prof. Arnold Dreyblatt und Dr. Claudia Banz
Prof. Norbert M. Schmitz (Vorr.)

Kiel : Muthesius Kunsthochschule., 2013
79 S. : Ill. ; 25 cm, 199 g

 

Software der Erinnerung, 2009

Software der Erinnerung : künstlerischer Wettbewerb zur Markierung von Orten in Braunschweig mit nationalsozialistischer Vergangenheit
Mit Beiträgen von: Arnold Dreyblatt, Prof. Stefanie Endlich, Prof. Michael Fehr,  Dr. Anja Hesse, Pia Lanzinger und Barbara Straka

Software der ERINNERUNG: Künstlerischer Wettbewerb zur Markierung von Orten in Braunschweig mit national-sozialistischer Vergangenheit
Braunschweiger kulturwissen-schaftliche Studien, Veröffentlichungen des Kulturinstituts der Stadt Braunschweig, Bd. 3; Herausgegeben von:  Goor Zankl, Kulturinstitut im Auftrag des Oberbürgermeisters der Stadt Braunschweig
www.appelhans-verlag.de; Copyright © 2009, Appelhans Verlag Braunschweig

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Innocent Questions, 2006

ISBN: 3936636915

Hardcover, 96 Pages, 40 color and black and white photographs, 270 mm x 220 mm

Language: English, Norwegian

Texts by: Dr. Eugen Blume, Director, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Odd-Bjorn Fure, Research Director, HL-senteret, Dr. Jan Brockmann (Art Historian, former director of Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo), William Seltzer, Honorary Professor, Fordham University, New York and Arnold Dreyblatt

Photos by Jiri Havran

This book is published on the occasion of the installation of Arnold Dreyblatt's permanent work, "Innocent Questions" in front of the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway in 2006

The Publication has been supported by Fritt Ord (The Freedom of Expression Foundation), Oslo; Norsk kulturråd, Oslo (Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs) and HL-senteret, Oslo. . 

"Arnold Dreyblatt's sculpture Innocent Questions raises a set of unpleasant questions about the relationship between the rationalism that characterizes modernity and genocide. The art work is installed at the entrance of what was previously Vidkun Quisling's residence in Oslo during the German occupation of Norway. [...] The seemingly neutral and objective categorization underlying the gathering of personal information is not just passive registration but produces identity. It chisels out subjects that may be identified and quantified in the next round." - Jan Ove Steihaug

 

Sign Here!, 2006

Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media

Edited by Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, and Eric Ketelaar
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2006

"Hands on the Document: Arnold Dreyblatt’s T Archive" 
Arnold Dreyblatt and Jeffrey Wallen

ISBN 13   978 90 5356 816 3, 10   90 53568166

 

 

Inscriptions, 2005

Issued on the occasion of the solo exhibition by Arnold Dreyblatt, Inscriptions at the Judengasse Annex; Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2005.

ISBN 3-9809814-2-8

96 Pages, 23 Color Photographs.

Texts by Georg Heuberger, Erik Riedel, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Wolfgang Ernst

 

 

Aus den Archiven, 2003

ISBN: 393325731X

Hardcover: 120 pages, 70 Color Photos, DVD, German and English

Dimensions: 25.25 x 16.81 x 1.35 centimetres

Authors: Dreyblatt, Arnold, Editor Uthemann, Ernest W., Fechner-Smarsly, Jeffrey Wallen 

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg

The New York-born artist deals with our conception of a complex world increasingly dominated by mass media. Asking the question, if human perception and memory can live up to the information offered, his video art plays games with our curiosity and will to decipher the unknown. Our limits of apprehension are being tested, for example, by keeping the pace of displayed words and images constantly too fast, so that the attempt to make sense of a ?ood of information is bound to fail.

 

 

Who's Who in Central & East Europe, 1933 (1995)

ISBN Number: 3-928942-11-5
Hypertext in Book Form by Arnold Dreyblatt

Published by Gerhard Wolf Janus Press Berlin, 1995 (In German), 230 pages, 130 photographs
With Essays by: Jan Faktor, Jeffrey Wallen, Heiko Idensen, Arnold Dreyblatt
Software Design, Database: Jost Muxfeldt
Publication supported by VG Bild Kunst, Bonn; Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn.

"One could speak perhaps of a rescuing of the ordinary and of the bureaucratic in Dreyblatt's work, even as these are taken to a further extreme through their own logic of fragmentation, listing, juxtaposition, and leveling. But "rescue" would be the wrong word, since there is no real recovery here, either of the individual, of a culture, or of Central and East Europe. What we are given, through these traces, is a far more haunting glimpse of an absence. But to only say this would be to ignore the fascination of all that we can now see in these fragments, as they are released from serving solely as the standard elements for constructing accounts of a life, and become the pieces of an exceptionally challenging new book." - Jeffrey Wallen, Hampshire College

Klangkust, 2024

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Bookmarks / Lesezeichen, 2023

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Last Europeans?, 2023

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Black Mountain College as Multiverse, 2022

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Memory Palace Leuk, 2022

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Lapse. 2018

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Infinite Record: Archive, Memory and Performance, 2016

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Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism 2016

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Terry Fox. Elemental Gestures, 2015

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Zeitkapsul, 2015

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Vorsicht!, 2014

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A Classification for Cataloguing and Arranging the Contents of a Library, 2015

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Spuren, Höhlräume, Leerstellen, 2013

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Name That Thing, 2012

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Software der Erinnerung, 2009

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Innocent Questions, 2006

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Sign Here!, 2006

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Inscriptions, 2005

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Aus den Archiven, 2003

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Who's Who in Central & East Europe, 1933 (1995)

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