2 oder 3 Tiger

Koloniale Geschichten, Medien und Moderne

100 Years of Now Library
Editors: Hyunjin Kim and Anselm Franke
Publisher: Matthes & Seitz Berlin , 2017
264 pages, German
ISBN 978-3-95757-413-8
Price: 18 €

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Based on the exhibition of the same name, the volume compiles essays by leading East Asian intellectuals. The tiger is the basis for reflection on modernization ideologies and the way that culture and life are altered under the prevailing circumstances and identities are destabilized or solidified. Modernity is reflected as a colonial scheme that is inscribed in the history of nation states, militarization and financialization, but also as a comprehensive new order of the world and worldviews that in the past 200 years has led to a profound crisis of consciousness in most societies.

100 Years of Now Library

How can the past be made fertile not as a relic, but as a lived experience for the present and future? From now until 2019, a series of publications will address this fundamental question of the 100 Years of Now project (2015–18) in 12 paradigmatic in-depth volumes.
April 21 – July 3, 2017

2 or 3 Tigers

2 or 3 Tigers is a group exhibition about colonialism, media and modernity, specifically in East Asia. The figure of the tiger itself is the medium through which mythological, colonial and modern histories are evoked and folded into the present, highlighting unstable identities and shifting ground, as well as structural continuities and modernization ideologies. Modernity is reflected as a colonial pattern inscribed in the history of nation states, militarization and financialization, but also as a an ontological revolution, as an order that fundamentally upsets social organization, cultural patterns and indeed cosmologies, and that in most societies in the past 200 years has led to a profound crisis of consciousness.

2 oder 3 Tiger

100 Years of Now Library

2 or 3 Tigers