“Our situation demands a new form of exegesis, one that rescues the legibitlity of the past against the conventions of official memory.
Past events cannot provide a key to the present unless they are radically separated from a direct lineage of inheritance.”
Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss, 2012
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, The Envelope, 2015
The Envelope. Commentary on Walid Raad’s Scratching on Things I could Disavow, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, 2015, envelope, mirror, golden frame, unique, 39 x 47 cm, © the artist, courtesy taswir projects
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Meine Kleine Mnemosnye, 2015-ongoing
My Little Mnemosnye, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, 2015-ongoing, with taswir associated artists Object Constellation / Portable Exhibit-Installation Varying Art Works, Dresden Baroque Table, French Baroque Silver Pot & Artist(s) Table Talks of Nondetermined Content, artist(s) are present, Museum’s Future © and courtesy taswir projects
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, The Taswir Atlas, 2015
The Taswir Atlas, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, 2015, digital mnemosyne chamber based on medieval theories of attributes, with Jens Ravens, Christian Kroter, Benjamin Metz, digital Atlas, algorithm, software, © and courtesy taswir projects
Taswir Atlas of Poetry #3 , 2014
Atlas of Poetry/#3, Assembled by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, 2014, installation work by Eva Beierheimer/Miriam Laussegger Technique: C-print, mounted on aluminum, 5 + 2AP Photograph of the in-situ installation/light & letters projection “Atlas of Poetry in Eleven Languages,” taswir projects @ 4th International Çanakkale Biennial, 40 x 60 cm © the artists, courtesy taswir projects
A.S. BRUCKSTEIN ÇORUH
Thinker, author, curator, architect of House of Taswir and the Taswir atlas, worked in Philadelphia, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Berlin, lives in Berlin
Selected Works
2015 My Little Mnemosyne, Portable Exhibit-Installation, Pergamon Palais, Berlin
2015 The Envelope. Commentary on Walid Raad’s Scratching on Things I could Disavow. Envelope, Mirror, Golden Frame, 39 x 47 cm + Commentary on The Envelope. Commentary on Walid Raad’s Scratching on Things I could Disavow. Envelope, Mirror, Golden Frame, 54 x 62 cm
2014 House of Taswir, Book, Image and Text Installation, with Verena Gerlach and Hannes Aechter, München: W. Fink
2014 Maliheh Afnan, Tonight the Door Towards Words Will Be Opened, Exhibition and Catalogue, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin
2014 BodyLetter and Persian DanceScripts, Exhibition with Parastou Forouhar and Ziya Azazi @ El Greco Year 2014, Toledo
2013 The Taswir Atlas, algorithm and digital mnemosyne atlas, with Jens Ravens and Christian Koter, published @ www.taswir.org
2009 / 2010 Taswir Exhibition Berlin. Martin-Gropius-Bau. In collaboration with the Berliner Festspiele and sixty-five contemporary artists.
2007 Vom Aufstand der Bilder. Materialien zu Rembrandt und Midrasch, Book, München: W. Fink