The Beast and the Sovereign MER Paper Kunsthalle experiments

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The texts of which the patterns are composed are self-descriptions of the art system that the artist excerpts from and then reinserts into the flow of communication

The catalogue can be viewed as a list of characteristic elements drawn from each of the recognised books from 2017

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The Beast and the Sovereign MER Paper Kunsthalle experimentsThe Beast and the Sovereign was Jacques Derridas last seminar. It lent its name to the exhibition and accompanying catalogue at the Wrttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and MACBA, Barcelona (2015). It examines constructs of political sovereignty in the Western intellectual tradition. For Derrida the beast and the sovereign symbolised two opposing figures of the political that are both located outside the law: the beast, who does not know the law,