Rezension: "interirdisch" von Elisa Asenbaum

Abstract

In her book interirdisch, the Viennese conceptual artist Elisa Asenbaum combines literary writing, photographic works and scientific reflections to negotiate contemporary concepts of cosmology and (non-)human existence. Adressing art-led processes of knowledge acquisition and information presentation embedded in the texts of the volume, language itself and its own manifold qualities necessarily become objects of negotiation. Accordingly, Asenbaum questions conventional ontological and epistemological models in a language characterised by artifice and neologisms, which is also used again in her most recent publication Einfaltung. The renowned Austrian writer Birgit Schwaner has reviewed interirdisch and analyses the conceptual foundations and contexts of this remarkable publication.