Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World

Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World

by Joanna Demers
Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World

Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World

by Joanna Demers

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782799948
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 12/11/2015
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Joanna Demers is associate professor of musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she specializes in post-1945 popular and art music.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Catalog for "Commentaries on the Apocalypse", An Exhibit of Essays and Speculative Artworks by Cynthia Wey 15

Curators' Introduction 16

"Commentaries on the Apocalypse", an essay 21

"The End of Happiness, The End of the World", an essay 26

"The Big Bang", a speculative artwork 38

"Manifest", an essay 39

"Photojournalism of the Fall", a speculative artwork 53

"Radigue's Wager", an essay 60

"Pump Cam / Debt Clock", a speculative artwork 71

"Apocalyptic Desire", an essay 73

"The Chelyabinsk meteoroid", a speculative artwork 84

"After Apocalypse", an essay 86

Endnotes 95

Bibliography 103

Discography and Videography 107

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