Publications:

The German Library Pyongyang, Sara van der Heide & Guests,
published by Sternberg Press, 2017


Contributions by Anselm Franke, Changho Choi, Chankyong Park, Chen Tong, Dongyoung Lee, Egon Hanfstingl, Gabriele Stötzer / Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt, Hans Haacke, Janet Grau, Kyungman Kim, Liu Ding, Louwrien Wijers, Rory Pilgrim, Sora Kim

From December 11, 2015, until April 10, 2016, the German Library in Guangzhou, China, became The German Library Pyongyang, a reimagining of an initiative of the Goethe-Institut that originally operated in North Korea between 2004 and 2009. This temporary intervention by Sara van der Heide is an imaginary transformation of the current geography of the German Library in Guangzhou. Van der Heide’s project is a contemporary version of the Goethe-Institut’s original library initiative in North Korea, devised as a vessel to discuss national cultural policy in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era that looks critically toward the parallel histories of Germany and the two Koreas. The German Library Pyongyang offers a space for critical questions, but it also functions as a context for transcending thinking that is prescribed by the lines of the nation-state, language, and geography. The several artistic, linguistic, and graphic interventions in the library merge with the continuing activities of the German learning center in Guangzhou, and all institutional printed matter in Chinese is replaced by Korean.

This publication brings together the four original exhibition booklets in German, Korean, English, and Chinese. An additional reader is included with critical reflections as well as documentation of the exhibition and the organized seminar.

Design by Dongyoung Lee

February 2017
17 x 24 cm, 80 pages, English/German/Korean/Chinese, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-308-0
€12.00

order at Sternberg Press

 
24 European Ethnographic Museums, Sara van der Heide, 2011
published by ROMA Publications





24 European Ethnographic Museums - Sara van der Heide contributor: Moosje Goosen; graphic design: Mevis & van Deursen; type casting cover: Stichting Lettergieten 1983, Westzaan; printing interior: robstolk® Amsterdam; 30x23 cm; 48 p.; English; Eng; ISBN 978 90 77459 68 3, €10.


You can order the publication here: Roma Publications