dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts No. 006 Etel Adnan - The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay

In her poetic reflection, artist, poet, and essayist Etel Adnan (*1925) describes various forms of love: the love for ideas, for God, for things, and for nature. However, today we have distanced ourselves from a higher form of love that drove Nietzsche into madness and the Islamic mystic al-Hallaj into martyrdom. The love for nature, which Adnan describes through her own experience, even seems to have given way to contempt—how else could the ecological catastrophe toward which we are steering be explained? The price to stop it would be too high, as it would involve a radical change in our way of life—similar to the experience of conventional love between two people, which involves such intensity only a few are ready to endure it.

As a prelude to the 2012 exhibition, dOCUMENTA (13) and Hatje Cantz are publishing a series of notebooks, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, that is comprised of facsimiles of existing notebooks, commissioned essays, collaborations, and conversations.

Commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13)'s Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev together with Agent, Member of Core Group, and Head of Department Chus Martínez, this series is edited by Head of Publications, Bettina Funcke.

100 Notes - 100 Thoughts
A series of 100 notebooks commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13)


Publisher: Hatje Cantz/dOCUMENTA (13)
ISBN: 9783775728553
Pages:  32
Binding: staple
Dimensions: 210 x150 mm

Price: £5.99

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