Hausmeister, Reports Of Worldwide Visual Diseases

Stephan Hausmeister

REPORTS OF WORLDWIDE VISUAL DISEASES 2000

artists' book 196/500

164 pages with 124 colour offset and 25 black & white reproductions. Included are six 5-colour screenprints, five two colour screenprints, one 3-colour screenprint. The double front page at the beginning and the end are 1-colour screenprints on black cardboard, the inside and outside front and back covers are 2-colour screenprints on 400gr 'Werkdruck' printing paper.

Text and picture contributions of 14 contemporary visual artists, writers, art scientists, journalists, photographers and film makers:

David Ayers (USA / Germany)
Konrad Bayer (Austria)
Shane Cullen (Irish Republic)
Michael Haerdter (Germany)
Michael Hager (Germany)
Stephan Hausmeister (Germany / England)
Stefan Heidenreich (Germany)
Fritz Heisterkamp (Germany)
Patrick Jolley (Northern Ireland)
Gordon Matta-Clark (USA)
Paul Murray (Irish Republic)
John Sexton (England)
Lukasz Skapski (Poland)
Camilo Jose Vergara (USA)

The book was released on the 15 of April 1995 with a book release exhibition, entitled 'Pathologische Aspekte der Gegenwartskunst' ('Pathological Aspects of Contemporary Art') at the Unwahr Gallery, Berlin.
In June 1995 the book was shown as part of the Irish contribution to the Venice Biennale, together with the work of the Irish painter Shane Cullen, who is one of the books contributors with 'A Letter to John Heartfield', a joint project with Stephan Hausmeister.

Copies of the book are in the following institutions and collections:

• The Tate Gallery, London
• The Victoria and Albert Museum, London (National Art Library)
• Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (Kunstbibliothek)
• The Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin
• Museum of Modern Art, New York (Franklin Furnace Collection)
• NCAD, Dublin (National College of Art and Design)
• The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a.M.
• MSK, Gent
• Northern Ireland Arts Board, Belfast
• Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
• Galleria Szerdag, Krakov
• London Guildhall University, London
• School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
• School of The Art Institute of Chicago
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago