'The main book of documenta 14 takes the form of a reader, evoking the various meanings associated with the term. The documenta 14 Reader explores—in essay, allegory, poem, historical legal document, and hybrid literary other—the discursive and practical concerns of the project, such as debt and gift, the coloniality of power, economies of the exhibition, and languages (and other currencies) without remainder. A critical anthology that reflects on history in order to better envision the present and reconceptualize the future, the Reader features both newly commissioned and foundational texts as well as image portfolios that illustrate the expansive scope—at once temporal and geographic—of historical artists and actors included in the documenta 14 project.
With contributions by Tony Bennett, Ross Birrell, Maria Boletsi, Jacques Derrida, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, W. E. B. Du Bois, Silvia Federici, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Yannis Hamilakis, Candice Hopkins, Quinn Latimer, Isabell Lorey, Sylvère Lotringer, Antonio Negri, Pauline Oliveros, Hiva Panahi, Paul B. Preciado, Adam Szymczyk, and others' - from the documenta 14 website
Onsite
Quinn LATIMER, 
English
perennial exhibition,  colonialism,  geopolitics,  history,  body
2017
712
9783791356570
2
anthology
To the Reader
- Mahmoud DARWISH
14: Interability and Otherness-Learning and Working from Athens
- Adam SZYMCZYK
Etant Donnes
- Sylvere LOTRINGER
[Folio 1]: "What color is hunger? What color paper?"
Unpayable Debt: Reading Scenes of Value against the Arrow of Time
- Denise Ferreira DA SILVA
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Code Noir
My Body Doesn't Exist
- Paul B. PRECIADO
[Folio 2]: "The body as body or body politic."
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Aboriginals Protection Act
The Inner-Outer Sound Matrix
Presentist Democracy: Reconceptualizing the Present
- Isabell LOREY
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Indian Act
[Folio 3]: "If gold symbolizes the conflation of money and misery..."
The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier
- Candice HOPKINS
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Gustave FLAUBERT
Signs, Sounds, Metals, Fires, or An Economy of Her Reader
- Quinn LATIMER
What Is It to Read?
- Ross BIRRELL
[Folio 4]: "Among the scattered shadows and traces of the revolution..."
Exhibition, Truth, Power: Reconsidering "The Exhibitionary Complex"
- Tony BENNETT
The Exhibitionary Complex
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: General Act of the Berlin Conference
Exile
- Souleymane Bachir DIAGNE
Three Poems about the Road
- Hiva PANAHI
From the Subject of the Crisis to the Subject in Crisis: Middle Voice on Greek Walls
- Maria BOLETSI
[Folio 5]: "When, and where, do German-Greek relations begin?"
Some Debts Can Never Be Repaid: The Archaeo-politics of the Crisis
- Yannis HAMILAKIS
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Marshall Plan
Exercises of Freedom
- Antonio NEGRI
The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto
- W. E. B. DU BOIS
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: McKee Treaty
The New Art of Making Books
- Ulises CARRION
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Sami Act
Environmental Dialogue
- Pauline OLIVEROS
[Folio 6]: "The time of the ritual is not linear but cyclical."
In Struggle to Change the World: Women, Reproduction, and Resistance in Latin America
- Silvia FEDERICI
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Zapatista (EZLN) Women's Revolutionary Law
In Human: Parasites, Posthumanism, and Papatuanuku
- Emilie RAKETE
[Documents of Empire/ Documents of Decoloniality]: Treaty of Waitangi
[Folio 7]: "Technology suggests the hand..."
Of Hospitality
- Anne DUFOURMANTELLE, Jacques DERRIDA
Pauline's Solo
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