Joachim Koester: I Myself Am Only A Receiving Apparatus

This book (two books in one) focuses on the performative and the human body in Koester’s work, which is based on intensive archival research and characterized by what he calls “narrative knots”—the multitude of stories, facts and references that make up his notion of history.

Contributors: Magali Arriola, Frédérique Bergholtz, Martin Germann, Veit Görner, Joachim Koester, Linda Norden, Marco Pasi, Kristin Schrader, Yann Chateigné Tytelman.

edited by Frédérique Bergholtz and Kristin Schrader

2012, published by If I Can’t Dance; kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 144 pages (14,2 x 22,6 cm) and 296 pages (21,2 x 29,7 cm)