PUBLICATION [ > ]
[ V ] 2022 nn
Es ist ein Quark / Ernst Stäbli
edited by Jan van Hasselt
texts [only German] / Frieder Butzmann,
Jan van Hasselt, Tulv Haugland-Aasen,
Gisbert Maritsch
translation from Norwegian / Rosa Hobart (Tulv Haugland-Aasen)
proofreading / Katharina Groth
design / kohodesign
11,5 x 17,8 cm, 132 pages,
12 colour images & 35 black / white images
Hardcover linen, gold embossing, thread stitching, digital print
collector's box: 7" single, poster, box
edition / 100 copies, numbered and signed
The publication appears exclusively in combination with a replica of
the test pressing PopopoP by Ernst Stäbli.
The single to the book is published by Latenz,
Bremen [ latenz.org ] under catalog number LTZ 025
ISBN 978-3-948628-05-5
nomen nominandum buch, Bremen
30,00 EUR (DE) / 30,90 EUR (AT)
plus shipping costs
In cooperation with nnbuch, the author and musician Jan van Hasselt has compiled an unusual artist book from the estate of the composer Ernst Stäbli from Lower Saxony at the interface between visual art, literature and music. The publication not only addresses the truthfulness of texts and authorship or the cult of personality in the field of art/music, but also shows how powerfully sounds in combination with text create a kind of head cinema, the images of which give rise to entire worlds.
In addition to the accompanying record, published in cooperation with the Bremen-based label Latenz, and Jan van Hasselt's introduction to his research project, in-depth text contributions by the composers and musicologists Frieder Butzmann and Tulv Haugland-Aasen (Princeton), as well as an interview with the sociologist Gisbert Maritsch, complement the examination of Ernst Stäbli's person and the work he left behind.
The publication pursues the question of reconstruction and illuminates speculative historicism as the basis of the project from different perspectives. A visual, acoustic, and interdisciplinary overall experience emerges that raises not only answers, but also many other questions.