Peter Weibel, Bruno Latour: »BEYOND MATTER: A Return of History« (2020)

BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality
| Interview


[07.09.2020]


The project »BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of
Virtual Reality« serves to revive past, groundbreaking
exhibitions. One of them, »Iconoclash. Beyond the Image Wars in
Science, Religion and Art«, was presented at the ZKM Karlsruhe in
2002.


In the context of the series of talks »BEYOND MATTER? – A Revival
of Clashes between Materiality and Representation« the curators
Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour talk about the ZKM exhibition
»Iconoclash«. The exhibit aimed to display, in a systematic
confrontation, three great clashes about representation – about
its necessity, sanctity, and power – in the domains of science,
art, and religion. By linking the three domains of theology, art
and science all at once, the aim was not to increase the critical
mood or to reinforce disbelief and irony. On the contrary, the
aim was to transform iconoclasm from being an indisputable
resource into a topic to be systematically interrogated.