C/O Berlin Talents 32 Emanuel Mathias, Sabine Weier Kunst, Freiheit und Lebensfreude
Proud activists, annual plans accomplished, holiday greetings from East Germany, illustrious celebrations of collective company agreements, collections of Vietnam memorabilia, friends from Mozambique – brigade journals give us a unique glimpse of the everyday lives of ordinary working people in the days of real socialism. These historical chronicles document the development of workers' collectives with texts and pictures that run the gamut from the state-prescribed staging of big events to mundane private moments. Emanuel Mathias has selected around 50 pages from 85 brigade journals created by the workers at the Leipzig cotton spinning mill between 1961 and 1989 and edited and re-assembled them. Using this special form of historical reappraisal, the artist inquires into how historical documents and archives shape the identities of individuals and society. How does memory function here? How is the past reconstructed? How does collective memory come about?
Swiss binding
17 x 23 cm
84 pages
31 color and b/w illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-534-5
2015
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Proud activists, annual plans accomplished, holiday greetings from East Germany, illustrious celebrations of collective company agreements, collections of Vietnam memorabilia, friends from Mozambique – brigade journals give us a unique glimpse of the everyday lives of ordinary working people in the days of real socialism. These historical chronicles document the development of workers' collectives with texts and pictures that run the gamut from the state-prescribed staging of big events to mundane private moments. Emanuel Mathias has selected around 50 pages from 85 brigade journals created by the workers at the Leipzig cotton spinning mill between 1961 and 1989 and edited and re-assembled them. Using this special form of historical reappraisal, the artist inquires into how historical documents and archives shape the identities of individuals and society. How does memory function here? How is the past reconstructed? How does collective memory come about?
Swiss binding
17 x 23 cm
84 pages
31 color and b/w illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-534-5
2015
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