[{"id":7390,"title":"The Future of Art: A Diary","dimensions":"19.9 cm x 14 cm, 255 p, language: English, publisher: Berlin: Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-3-943365-02-3 ","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/537","stream_count_app":33,"permalink":"the-future-of-art-a-diary","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Erik Niedling , Ingo Niermann ","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/867/large/Untitled235.jpg?1367315442","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Future of Art: A Diary\u003c/em\u003e by Erik Niedling with texts by Ingo Niermann and Tom McCarty. Average life expectancy can fool you into thinking you still have many years ahead. But what would it be like if you had only one left? What would you want to\u0026mdash;what could you\u0026mdash;experience in this limited period of time? Artist Erik Niedling would like to be buried in Pyramid Mountain, the largest tomb of all time, conceived by writer Ingo Niermann. To make this goal a reality, Niedling lives one year as though it were his last. \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Art: A Diary\u003c/em\u003e recounts the joys and horrors of that year. A response by Tom McCarthy examines the social and philosophical implications.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Last Year project was part of Niedling\u0026rsquo;s effort to build Pyramid Mountain\u0026mdash;an artwork he acquired from Ingo Niermann in summer 2010\u0026mdash;in order to design my personal burial chamber. \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Art: A Diary\u003c/em\u003e is the sequel of \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Art: A Manual\u003c/em\u003e by Ingo Niermann with Erik Niedling (Sternberg Press, Berlin 2011)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1372\u0026amp;l=en\u0026amp;bookId=267\u0026amp;sort=year%20DESC,month%20DESC\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":21109,"title":"Burial of the White Man","dimensions":"12.5 x 19 cm, 288 p, language: English, publisher: Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-3-95679-426-1","date_begin":"2019-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/978","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"burial-of-the-white-man","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/044/293/medium_500/burial_of_the_white_man.jpg?1554456604","cached_actor_names":"Ingo Niermann , Erik Niedling ","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/044/293/large/burial_of_the_white_man.jpg?1554456604","poster_credits":"Judith Banham","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurial of the White Man\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;is a bildungsroman about the friendship between artist Erik Niedling and writer Ingo Niermann. While in their thirties, they begin collaborating on a series of projects of ever-increasing ambition and scope: a tomb for all humans, a dissident replica of the U.S. Army, a German-Mozambican liberation movement, a ritual of living one year like it\u0026rsquo;s your last, a transformation of the oldest and most troubled German political party, a global fitness cult \u0026hellip; Each failure is answered with an even more outrageous endeavor\u0026mdash;culminating in the burial not only of themselves, but of the entire subspecies of the white man.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurial of the White Man\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;is an autofiction by Erik Niedling, interpolated by manifestos and proposals by Ingo Niermann and expanded by Austrian-American poet Ann Cotten and German novelist Jakob Nolte. The third volume of the \u003cem\u003eFuture of Art\u003c/em\u003e series, the book accompanies Erik Niedling\u0026rsquo;s web series,\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003ePyramid Mountain: A Video Diary\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1889\u0026amp;l=en\u0026amp;bookId=782\u0026amp;fbclid=IwAR1z26y_jSv1Dq51AkwLN1jfiDdJ83OAQBto3E1nvqGXSM_5TJycABo7JVk\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]