Kunstfiguren

Lady Gaga, Jilet Ay&#351,e, M&uuml,sl&uuml,m, Andy Warhol and Sun Ra are art figures who are nationally and internationally recognised. This publication deals with artistically designed identities at the interfaces of visual arts, performance, theatre, film, cabaret, stand-up comedy and music and analyses the currently widespread, but still little researched form of representation of art figures in the media. These are fictitious identities that artists create themselves and with which they appear in various contexts. At the centre of the contributions are aesthetic strategies and performative practices as well as the field of tension between the performing artist and the depicted art figure.

With contributions by: Vivian Braga dos Santos, Simon Dickel, Sibylle Heim (Hochschule der K&uuml,nste Bern), Daniel In&auml,bnit, Mira Kandathil, Katarina Kleinschmidt, Grit K&ouml,ppen, Stefan Krankenhagen, Fabiana Senkpiel and with an artist talk with Idil Baydar (Berlin) and Semih Yavsaner (Bern).

Who are Maria Marshal, Jilet Ay&cedil,se, M&uuml,sl&uuml,m or Soya the Cow?

The form of representation of the fictional characters scientifically analysed for the first time.