{"id":21109,"title":"Burial of the White Man","dimensions":"12.5 x 19 cm, 288 p, language: English, publisher: Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-3-95679-426-1","date_begin":"2019-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/978","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"burial-of-the-white-man","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/044/293/medium_500/burial_of_the_white_man.jpg?1554456604","cached_actor_names":"Ingo Niermann , Erik Niedling ","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/044/293/large/burial_of_the_white_man.jpg?1554456604","poster_credits":"Judith Banham","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurial of the White Man\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;is a bildungsroman about the friendship between artist Erik Niedling and writer Ingo Niermann. While in their thirties, they begin collaborating on a series of projects of ever-increasing ambition and scope: a tomb for all humans, a dissident replica of the U.S. Army, a German-Mozambican liberation movement, a ritual of living one year like it\u0026rsquo;s your last, a transformation of the oldest and most troubled German political party, a global fitness cult \u0026hellip; Each failure is answered with an even more outrageous endeavor\u0026mdash;culminating in the burial not only of themselves, but of the entire subspecies of the white man.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurial of the White Man\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;is an autofiction by Erik Niedling, interpolated by manifestos and proposals by Ingo Niermann and expanded by Austrian-American poet Ann Cotten and German novelist Jakob Nolte. The third volume of the \u003cem\u003eFuture of Art\u003c/em\u003e series, the book accompanies Erik Niedling\u0026rsquo;s web series,\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003ePyramid Mountain: A Video Diary\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1889\u0026amp;l=en\u0026amp;bookId=782\u0026amp;fbclid=IwAR1z26y_jSv1Dq51AkwLN1jfiDdJ83OAQBto3E1nvqGXSM_5TJycABo7JVk\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2027,"name":"Erik Niedling ","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}},{"id":2028,"name":"Ingo Niermann ","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}