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Peter Weibel, Bruno Latour: »BEYOND MATTER: A Return of History« (2020)
BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality | Interview
[07.09.2020]
The project »BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality« serves to revive past, groundbreaking exhibitions. One of them, »Iconoclash. Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art«, was presented at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2002.
In the context of the series of talks »BEYOND MATTER? – A Revival of Clashes between Materiality and Representation« the curators Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour talk about the ZKM exhibition »Iconoclash«. The exhibit aimed to display, in a systematic confrontation, three great clashes about representation – about its necessity, sanctity, and power – in the domains of science, art, and religion. By linking the three domains of theology, art and science all at once, the aim was not to increase the critical mood or to reinforce disbelief and irony. On the contrary, the aim was to transform iconoclasm from being an indisputable resource into a topic to be systematically interrogated.