Der Konterfei

Wien / Österreich

DER KONTERFEI (SoS Journal; “The Likeness”), a publication series founded by Robert Jelinek in February 2014, is not a publishing house, but an extension of his artistic production, where epistemological interests are rendered as text in the form of books. DER KONTERFEI is a reduction to the origin and sources of Jelinek’s artistic activity, language, questions, contents, and a reflection of his opposites and his interactions with them. In this series the artist’s urge to visually depict and illustrate is temporarily abandoned in favor of elucidation in his readers’ heads.... To Jelinek, each edition in the series represents a personal dissertation and an artistic work in its own right. DER KONTERFEI serves furthermore as preparation for the coming SoS Academy, and its publications already provide “course material” for that enterprise. In the form of conversations, essays, and manifestos, DER KONTERFEI portrays selected topics and personalities which/who reflect contemporary societal tendencies and which/whom Jelinek considers to be relevant to the future SoS Academy. The publication of “buried” knowledge, interdisciplinary strategies, and scientific and cultural texts committed to the humanist tradition is not only a lasting contribution to societal and technological progress, but also a calling card of the SoS Academy, providing its basic curriculum.

DER KONTERFEI was conceived as a cooperation between artists and musicians, journalists and scientists, seeing as their disciplines perform research on and in society. In the process, artistic and cultural issues are connected to approaches, modes of thought, and strategies of specialist scientific fields and vice versa; phenomena are examined and illuminated from, and anchored in, an artistic and scientific perspective. DER KONTERFEI has a clear, unmistakable and consistent line in terms of both contents and aesthetics, along which the positions and approaches of the artists, authors, issues, and the publication series as a whole reflect (on) contemporary tendencies. Through its chosen topics and questions DER KONTERFEI mirrors current artistically relevant intentions and methods. This publication series thereby gives impetus to innovative developments at the points of intersection between art and science.

[Quelle: http://derkonterfei.com/]