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Julian Rosefeldt : Living in Oblivion

by Julian Rosefeldt

The film installations of Julian Rosefeldt (born 1965) combine political critique with visual opulence and glossy production values. To celebrate his recent work "The Shift," Rosefeldt has designed this volume, which combines documentation with recomposed works from the 1990s.

Accession 9783866784147 ISBN 9783866784147 Publisher Kerber

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1. **Film Installation as Artistic Medium**
Rosefeldt works at the intersection of film, photography, installation, performance, and theater, pushing the boundaries of what each medium can do when combined. This book documents his film installations as a distinctive art form — cinematic in scale and production, but architectural in how they occupy space.

Connect to books about: video art, installation art, expanded cinema, multi-channel film, spatial aesthetics.

2. **Political Critique Through Visual Art**
Rosefeldt's film installations combine political commentary with lavish visual spectacle, using the seductiveness of glossy production values as a vehicle — and sometimes a subject — of critique. The tension between beauty and political content is central to his practice.

Connect to books about: political art, socially engaged art, aesthetics and ideology, art as resistance.

3. **Memory, Forgetting & Oblivion**
The title *Living in Oblivion* points directly to themes of erasure, forgetting, and the margins of cultural memory. Rosefeldt's interest in forgotten and hidden places treats oblivion not as mere absence but as a condition worth inhabiting and examining.

Connect to books about: cultural memory, trauma and forgetting, archives and loss, the uncanny.

4. **Hidden & Forgotten Spaces**
A key preoccupation in Rosefeldt's work is spaces that have been overlooked, abandoned, or concealed — places that exist outside the mainstream of visibility. These spaces become stages for exploring what society leaves behind.

Connect to books about: urban exploration, ruins and decay, psychogeography, liminal spaces, non-places.

5. **Artist Monograph & Retrospective Practice**
This volume combines documentation of new work (*The Shift*) with recomposed works from the 1990s, reflecting on an artistic career's arc and the dialogue between early and mature practice. It raises questions about how artists document, revisit, and reframe their own work over time.

Connect to books about: artist monographs, retrospective catalogues, art documentation, curatorial practice.

6. **Spectacle, Excess & Visual Opulence**
Rosefeldt's deliberately "glossy" production values invoke the language of cinema, advertising, and consumer culture. The aesthetic of excess is used self-consciously to interrogate how seduction and spectacle function in contemporary image-making.

Connect to books about: the society of the spectacle, visual culture, consumer aesthetics, postmodern image theory.

7. **The Shift: Change, Transformation & Transition**
Central to this publication is Rosefeldt's work *The Shift*, which implies movement, displacement, and change. Themes of social, personal, and environmental transition run through his practice, often staged through choreographed human behavior in uncanny settings.

Connect to books about: social transformation, displacement, migration, performance and the body, choreography.

8. **Art, History & the Archive**
By combining early 1990s works with new documentation, the book functions as a kind of personal archive — raising questions about how artistic histories are constructed, preserved, and reinterpreted. This connects to broader debates about the role of the archive in art history.

Connect to books about: archival theory, art historiography, institutional critique, museum and collection studies.

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