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A house with a date palm will never starve
The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)
The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)
The invisible enemy should not exist
May the obdurate foe not be in good health
The Ballad of Special Ops Cody
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze
For us, the living
The flesh is yours, the bones are ours
Radio Silence
Imperfect Binding
Geniza for Ostia
Dar Al Sulh
What dust will rise?
Spoils
The Breakup
May the arrogant not prevail
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
White man got no dreaming
Enemy Kitchen
Endgames
The Visionaries
Dull Roar
Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy
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A house with a date palm will never starve
The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)
The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)
The invisible enemy should not exist
May the obdurate foe not be in good health
The Ballad of Special Ops Cody
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze
For us, the living
The flesh is yours, the bones are ours
Radio Silence
Imperfect Binding
Geniza for Ostia
Dar Al Sulh
What dust will rise?
Spoils
The Breakup
May the arrogant not prevail
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
White man got no dreaming
Enemy Kitchen
Endgames
The Visionaries
Dull Roar
Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy
RETURN
(p)LOT: Proposition I
Romanticized all out of proportion
Climate Control
paraSITE
DOWNLOADS
MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
INFORMATION
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A house with a date palm will never starve
The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)
The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)
The invisible enemy should not exist
May the obdurate foe not be in good health
The Ballad of Special Ops Cody
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze
For us, the living
The flesh is yours, the bones are ours
Radio Silence
Imperfect Binding
Geniza for Ostia
Dar Al Sulh
What dust will rise?
Spoils
The Breakup
May the arrogant not prevail
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
White man got no dreaming
Enemy Kitchen
Endgames
The Visionaries
Dull Roar
Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy
RETURN
(p)LOT: Proposition I
Romanticized all out of proportion
Climate Control
paraSITE
DOWNLOADS
INFORMATION

 

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From 1899-1912, the Gate was excavated by a German archaeologist, Robert Koldewey transported to Berlin, where it was installed piece by piece in the Pergamon Museum. Missing bricks were reconstructed and included among authentic relics, to recre View fullsize
In the 1950s, in the area that was ancient Babylon, the government of Iraq built a three-quarter reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate out of plaster and plywood to replace the original excavated and removed by the Germans. It was meant to stand as the View fullsize
Installed in the entrance of the exhibition space at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, May the Arrogant Not Prevail is a scaled-down reconstruction of the reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate still standing in Iraq. Built by a Berlin-based t View fullsize
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Instead of simply creating a surrogate for what has been taken away, May the Arrogant Not Prevail brings “home” to Berlin a copy of one that already exists at the scene of the crime. Seeking to be both polemic and poetic, the recreati View fullsize
Like a child who has seen a ghost and reenacts the scare with a bedsheet, the imitation is made earnestly yet poorly. Still, the apparition appears, and haunts the haus with the hopes of conjuring the mus hus su dragons, lions and bulls ren View fullsize
arrogant_01.jpg
From 1899-1912, the Gate was excavated by a German archaeologist, Robert Koldewey transported to Berlin, where it was installed piece by piece in the Pergamon Museum. Missing bricks were reconstructed and included among authentic relics, to recre
In the 1950s, in the area that was ancient Babylon, the government of Iraq built a three-quarter reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate out of plaster and plywood to replace the original excavated and removed by the Germans. It was meant to stand as the
Installed in the entrance of the exhibition space at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, May the Arrogant Not Prevail is a scaled-down reconstruction of the reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate still standing in Iraq. Built by a Berlin-based t
arrogant_05.jpg
Instead of simply creating a surrogate for what has been taken away, May the Arrogant Not Prevail brings “home” to Berlin a copy of one that already exists at the scene of the crime. Seeking to be both polemic and poetic, the recreati
Like a child who has seen a ghost and reenacts the scare with a bedsheet, the imitation is made earnestly yet poorly. Still, the apparition appears, and haunts the haus with the hopes of conjuring the mus hus su dragons, lions and bulls ren