Sebald Variations
The Art of Storytelling
The exhibition is a conversation between art and literature. It takes as its starting point, the work and the figure of the German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), the author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century, such as The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. «Sebald Variations » recreates the dialogue between Sebald and renowned artists and writers who have been invited to take part in the project, such as Carlos Amorales, Susan Hiller, Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen. It will also be presenting new pieces by Jeremy Wood and Andrea Geyer, which have been specially commissioned by the CCCB for the exhibition.
Interview with Guido van der Werve
Sebald Variations
El CCCB organiza la exposición «Las variaciones Sebald», donde el escritor alemán, autor de algunos de los libros fundamentales de nuestro cambio de siglo, se convertirá en el hilo conductor de una interrogación sobre la historia del siglo xx y sus proyecciones en el siglo XXI.
Interview with Mariana Castillo Deball
Sebald Variations
The CCCB is organising the exhibition “Sebald Variations” in which the German writer and author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century will become the linking thread in questioning the history of the 20th century and its impact on the 21st century. Pablo Helguera ...
Interview with Jeremy Wood
Sebald Variations
The CCCB is organising the exhibition “Sebald Variations” in which the German writer and author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century will become the linking thread in questioning the history of the 20th century and its impact on the 21st century. Curator Jorge ...
Interview with Jan Peter Tripp
Sebald Variations
The CCCB is organising the exhibition “Sebald Variations” in which the German writer and author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century will become the linking thread in questioning the history of the 20th century and its impact on the 21st century. Curator Jorge ...
Interview with Fernando Sánchez-Castillo
Sebald Variations
The CCCB is organising the exhibition “Sebald Variations” in which the German writer and author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century will become the linking thread in questioning the history of the 20th century and its impact on the 21st century. Curator Jorge ...
On W.G. Sebald’s Radicalism
Uwe Schütte
Uwe Schütte met W.G. Sebald in 1992 when he arrived at the University of East Anglia as an MA student, eventually becoming Sebald’s doctoral student. He has published a number of articles and books on Sebald’s wide-ranging body of work . Schütte’s latest publication, ...
Sebald Variations
Report
The CCCB is organising the exhibition “Sebald Variations” in which the German writer and author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century will become the linking thread in questioning the history of the 20th century and its impact on the 21st century.
This was never the world-place for Sebald. Conversation between Bruno Galindo and Iain Sinclair
Bruno Galindo & Iain Sinclair
Born in Wales in 1943, a year before Sebald, Iain Sinclair has written a series of books exploring the themes and territories that are now considered the cornerstones of Sebald’s project. Years before the author of Austerlitz reached the height of his popularity, Sinclair had already ...
The clocks of Austerlitz II – The shape of time
Graciela Speranza
Two clocks mark our first encounter with Jacques Austerlitz, the protagonist of W.G. Sebald’s final novel which was launched into the new millennium in 2001 like a sombre coda to the history of the 21st century and a profession of faith in the art of the 21st century. A narrator, who ...
The clocks of Austerlitz II – The shape of time
Graciela Speranza
Two clocks mark our first encounter with Jacques Austerlitz, the protagonist of W.G. Sebald’s final novel which was launched into the new millennium in 2001 like a sombre coda to the history of the 21st century and a profession of faith in the art of the 21st century. A narrator, who ...
There is a fog that no gaze can clear: artists discuss Sebald
A conversation between Pablo Helguera, Guido van der Werve and Jeremy Wood
The chamber of silence
Sergio Chejfec
Writers are often asked how they write: where, what with. I don’t know if Sebald ever answered, but if I had to imagine his reply I would say that he wrote inside a chamber of silence. [Translated by Mark Waudby] I’m not referring to his slow-paced narrative style and the meditation ...
Five “Crucial Events” in the Life of W. G. Sebald
Mark M. Anderson
W.G. Sebald’s life and work confront every biographer with the fictionality and deliberate fictionalization of everyday events in the author’s biography—a constant theme in his postmodernist, semi-documentary and autobiographical writing. Five key events from his inner as ...
Academic reverberations in the work of W. G. Sebald
Teresa Vinardell
The following article attempts to bring together several approaches to W.G. Sebald’s work, the relevance of which appears to respond to resonances that evoke many of the notions developed by literary and cultural theory in recent decades. Memory, image, temporality, travel and intertextuality ...
Writing after Sebald
Terry Pitts
In this first essay from SEBALDIANA, the art historian Terry Pitts, autor of one of the leading blogs of reference about the work of WG Sebald Vertigo, selects a number of authors and books that seem to offer the most interesting variations on the literary legacy of the author of Austerlitz and The rings of Saturn.
Sebaldiana is born
Jorge Carrión / Mario Hinojos
The sudden death of the writer W. G. Sebald in December 2001, came as a shock to the world literary scene. Sebald addressed many of the major issues of the 20th century. A pro-European outlook, an awareness of the meta-journey, anti-moral agonism, the aftermath of war, the figure of the writer, ...
Sebald Variations
The CCCB is organising the exhibition “Sebald Variations” in which the German writer and author of some of the key books of the turn of the last century will become the linking thread in questioning the history of the 20th century and its impact on the 21st century.