Cady Noland / Towards a Metalanguage of evil. Zu einer Metasprache des Bösen.
NOLAND Cady (Washington D.C. 1956), Kassel - Stuttgart, Documenta IX - Edition Cantz, [printing: Werbedruck Gmbh Horst Schreckhase, Sbangenberg], 1992, 21x20 cm., softcover [stapled], pp. 56, typographic cover, artist's book / catalog illustrated with several exhibition view by Dirk Bleicker. An essay by Cady Noland and an epilogue by Roland Nachtigäller (In the garage of meaning) both translated in English and German. Design by Roland Nachtigäller and Cady Noland. Published to accompany the installation "Towards a metalanguage of evil", organized by Noland together with Robert Nickas in the Friedrichsplatz underground car-park in Kassel, during Documenta IX. The installation involved works by artists such as Joan Wallace, Peter Nagy, Steven Parrino, Jessica Diamond and Cady Noland & Robert Nickas. Edition of 1000 numbered copies (copy n. 552).
NOLAND Cady (Washington D.C. 1956), Kassel - Stuttgart, Documenta IX - Edition Cantz, [printing: Werbedruck Gmbh Horst Schreckhase, Sbangenberg], 1992, 21x20 cm., softcover [stapled], pp. 56, typographic cover, artist's book / catalog illustrated with several exhibition view by Dirk Bleicker. An essay by Cady Noland and an epilogue by Roland Nachtigäller (In the garage of meaning) both translated in English and German. Design by Roland Nachtigäller and Cady Noland. Published to accompany the installation "Towards a metalanguage of evil", organized by Noland together with Robert Nickas in the Friedrichsplatz underground car-park in Kassel, during Documenta IX. The installation involved works by artists such as Joan Wallace, Peter Nagy, Steven Parrino, Jessica Diamond and Cady Noland & Robert Nickas. Edition of 1000 numbered copies (copy n. 552).
NOLAND Cady (Washington D.C. 1956), Kassel - Stuttgart, Documenta IX - Edition Cantz, [printing: Werbedruck Gmbh Horst Schreckhase, Sbangenberg], 1992, 21x20 cm., softcover [stapled], pp. 56, typographic cover, artist's book / catalog illustrated with several exhibition view by Dirk Bleicker. An essay by Cady Noland and an epilogue by Roland Nachtigäller (In the garage of meaning) both translated in English and German. Design by Roland Nachtigäller and Cady Noland. Published to accompany the installation "Towards a metalanguage of evil", organized by Noland together with Robert Nickas in the Friedrichsplatz underground car-park in Kassel, during Documenta IX. The installation involved works by artists such as Joan Wallace, Peter Nagy, Steven Parrino, Jessica Diamond and Cady Noland & Robert Nickas. Edition of 1000 numbered copies (copy n. 552).
"Entering an underground car park becomes a plunge into a modern underworld: impressions full of subliminal threats and violence, and yet familiar as well, images from the media, images from the everyday flood of information and news. What is distressing is sudden withdrawal of the safety zone, the own car is abruptly thrust into the middle of a confusing scenario and there is only a closed car door between you and the surrounding chaos. The windscreen no longer offers a division between this side and that side of fiction, in the way that is familiar from the rectangle of the flickering television screen. The images break the frame, and sitting in the car one becomes part of an eerie film without script or direction. In the confrontation of stories and news, advertising and show, fiction and reality, perception slides into uncertainty. For drivers the first encountering with Cady Noland's installation in the Friedrichsplatz underground car-park in Kassel becomes an involuntary excursion into the wilderness, a journey off the highways, through the back-yards of western civilization."
