
Art in the Age of Anxiety
- Publisher
- Mörel Books
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 978-1-907071-80-5
- Specifications
- Paperback
424 Pages
17.5 X 25 cm
Exhibition catalogue
Edited by Omar Kholeif
Design by Todd Reisz
Co-produced with Sharjah Art Foundation
Essays by Douglas Coupland, W.J.T. Mitchell, Cory Arcangel, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Norman M. Klein, Simon Denny, Aruba Khalid, Saira Ansari, Anonymous, Jeremy Bailey, Mac Tuters, photo spreads by Danko Stjepanovic
This major publication coincides with the exhibition Art in the Age of Anxiety, the most ambitious exhibition to look at the relationship between art and the internet ever to be held in the Middle East. The exhibition explored how our everyday devices and their attendant networks have affected our collective and individual consciousness. The project was designed by leading architect Todd Reisz, who worked with the editor and the Sharjah Art Foundation team to create an immersive, labyrinth that played with cognition, light and shadow - inviting the viewer to consider their complicit role in the increasingly corporatised technological sphere. After delays due to COVID-19, the exhibition opened in the summer of 2020 and was one of the most popular exhibits in the Sharjah Art Foundation's history.