Do you wish you could fast-forward to a more stable, peaceful era? While it is not a time machine, 2021: Vom Guten im Schlechten is a beautiful diary that will guide you through the twists and turns of the coming months and years. The hardcover calendar runs from October 2020 to March 2022 and dedicates a full double-page spread to each week for all your appointments, plans and post-lockdown dreams. But this is no ordinary study agenda: within its pages are 12 academic texts on the subject of “The Good in the Bad”, curated by editors Benedict Esche and Miriam Akkermann with help from Die Junge Akademie. Even if you are unfamiliar with the topics, the texts are accessible and highly relevant, such as historian Christoph Lundgreen’s essay which discusses how to respond to the breaking of norms. For a visual counterpart, a series of photos by Berlin-based artist Julian Charrière shows him smashing 12 hourglasses against a wall. Flicking through the weeks and months, you see Charrière destroy time and space – a fitting impression in this age of upset. (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Bui Luu Quynh Nguyen & Sophie Döring)
2021: Vom Guten im Schlechten (“The Good in the Bad”) 2020–2022 academic calendar (Mitte/Rand, 2020) – available online for purchase.
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