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ZusammenSpiel (Bilingual edition)

Tabea Blumenschein - Ulrike Ottinger
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In ZusammenSpiel (Bilingual edition), Ulrike Ottinger explores transformation and identity through a unique interplay of visual art. Inspired by Ottinger's 1979 film Ticket of No Return, it presents the avant-garde performances of Tabea Blumenschein, a woman of striking beauty who defied conventions and embraced multiple personas. This bilingual edition combines Blumenschein's drawings and Ottinger's photographs, offering a captivating dialogue on the performativity of gender and artistic collaboration.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in avant-garde art, performance, gender studies, and experimental photography. It suits those fascinated by art history and the intersection of visual culture with identity and transformation.

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She, a woman of high beauty, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter day to escape her loneliness and to leave La Rotonda. She bought a ticket Aller jamais retour. Berlin Tegel.

This is the opening scene of Ulrike Ottinger's momentous 1979 film Ticket of No Return—the woman of high beauty was Tabea Blumenschein. Unconcerned by all conventions, Blumenschein adored transformation: in a distinctive, avant-garde aesthetic, the two women embraced various different identities and challenged many norms, in the process revealing the performativity of gender.

Initiating a dialogue between the two artists' perspectives, these books bring together for the first time Blumenschein's drawings with Ottinger's photographs from their joint performance sessions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775752435

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 August 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 500 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Berlinische Galerie
  • Text by Carina Bukuts
  • Text by Annelie Lütgens
  • Designed by Tobias Honert / zentrale
  • Text by Katharina Sykora

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 280.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 3280g

Pages: 576

About the Author

ULRIKE OTTINGER (*1942, Constance) is one of the most import ant German filmmakers. Moving to Berlin in 1973, she became a pioneer of avant-garde cinematography. Ottinger's photographic works, feature films and documentaries have been shown at major international festivals and retrospectives, including the MoMa in New York, Berlinale, the documenta and the Venice Biennale.

TABEA BLUMENSCHEIN (1952-2020) was a cult figure of West Berlin's queer feminist subculture in the 1970s and 80s. For about ten years, she played a key role in Ottinger's films as leading actress and costume designer, and was part of legendary avant garde punk collective Die tödliche Doris. In the 1990s she withdrew from the public, yet remained active as an artist until her death.

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