Special Collections has roman numeral copy V ; includes text in English on 23 leaves. IaU Title from slipcase. Artist's book by Veronika Schäpers. Twenty-four photograms of alternative cures and prevention measures, laminated to 12 pieces of cardboard and placed in 12 envelopes of transparent paper, along with title, citation, and source. Envelopes are printed continuously with excerpts from H.M. Hartmann's short story "Reiner Wein" and Titus Oates's report of the Popish plot. Issued in a hinged portfolio composed of two interlocking slipcases that open to a 90-degree angle. "Idea, design, photograms, printing and binding: Veronika Schäpers. Heiko Michael Hartmann wrote his text for this edition, 'Reiner Wein' ('Pure wine') in June 2020 for this edition. Titus Oates published his report 'A True Narrative of the Horrid Plot and Conspiracy of the Popish Party' in April 1679. Letterpress from polymer plates on Enduro Ice-paper. 24 original b/w and color photograms on Ilford Multigrade Deluxe, Fomaspeed and Fuji Crystal Archive. Edition: 38 copies with consecutive Arabic numerals and 6 copies with consecutive Roman numerals."--Colophon (English version).
Summary:
"In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus spread first in China, then in Italy and finally across the entire globe, touching off a worldwide pandemic, more and more conspiracy theories also sprang up about the origin and spread of the virus. Social media and news networks played a major role in this; the established audiovisual and print media were vilified as 'fake news', and replaced by 'alternative' sources. At the start of the pandemic, for a period of two or three months when people still knew very little about the virus, a wide range of sometimes highly unusual methods were suggested as COVID-19 protection and treatment -- often based on dubious scientific evidence or removed from their scientific context, making them incomprehensible. This was not a regional phenomenon; rather, it spread throughout the entire world along with the virus. In March of 2020 I began to systematically collect different prevention measures and purported cures for COVID-19, and I discovered a connection between the dissemination of conspiracy theories and the quantity of recommended protective measures. The number of conspiracy theorists and proponents of alternative protective measures is remarkably large in the US and Germany, while during the same period in 2020 conspiracy theories played only a very small role among the populace in Japan and China. I chose 24 objects from my collection, which I captured as black-and-white or color photograms. The object is placed directly on or very close to a sheet of light-sensitive photo paper. It is then exposed using one or more light sources, developed, and fixed. On the one hand, the photogram is considered a true image or vera icon, since it claims to show a direct, unaltered image of the object. On the other hand, photograms may be described as images of the 'neither-nor' that flatly deny that they depict their subject matter, for what they show is never more than either half-present or half-absent, albeit always to the scale of 1:1. They are half truth, half fiction." -- From artist's statement on Booklyn Artists Alliance website, viewed 8 December 2021. https://new.booklyn.org/catalog/das-mussen-sie-mir-erst-einmal-beweisen-first-you-have-to-prove-it-to-me/
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1263917630
LCCN:
2021660367
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.