Projektion auf die Krise. Gauweilereien in München (Splitter 17)

Philipp Gufler, 2021

Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereien in Munich) takes a kaleidoscopic and retrospective look at the early days of the AIDS crisis in Germany during the 1980s – a time in which Munich’s repressive policies against gay people reached its peak: the arrival of the pandemic in Germany and the Bavarian response to it, consisting of a catalogue of measures which envisioned forced testing and separation, instigated by Peter Gauweiler who was Bavarian Secretary of State at the time.

Historic documents from the Forum Queeres Archiv München, assembled by Philipp Gufler, are arranged in chronological order and augmented by conversations with Guido Vael and Dr.med. Hans Jäger alongside contemporary works of fellow artists. The revised second edition also contains essays by Albert Knoll and Hendrik Folkerts, as well as, for the first time, an English translation of the German original texts.

The artist book was first published in collaboration with Hammann Von Mier Verlag, Munich in association with the video installation Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereien in Munich), 2014, by Philipp Gufler.

Philipp Gufler (* 1989) spans various media in his practice, including silkscreen prints on fabric and mirrors, artist books, performances and video installations. For the video installation Projection on the Crisis (2014), he began researching into the self-organised archive Forum Queeres Archiv München, of which Gufler has since become an active member. Philipp Gufler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and attended artist residencies De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2015-2017), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA (2019) and Delfina Foundation, London (2021). 2021 he has been awarded with the Medienpreis HIV/AIDS 2019/20 for his research on the beginning of the AIDS crisis and the artist book Quilt #01-#30.

This publication is an artistic collage by Philipp Gufler
Concept/editor: Philipp Gufler
Design: Jan Erbelding
Text contributions: Albert Knoll, Hendrik Folkerts
Conversations with: Dr. Med. Hans Jäger, Guido Vael
Artistic contributions: Maximiliane Baumgartner, Adrian Djukic, Gürsoy Doğtaş, Florian Gass, Stephan Janitzky, Richard John Jones, Mirja Reuter, Lisa Schairer, Barbara Spiller
Cover image: Philipp Gufler
Translation: Isabel Bredenbröker
Proofreading: Adrian Djukic, Becket Flannery, Linda Strehl, Dieuwertje Hehewerth

17 x 24 cm, softcover, 152 pages, cover 4c offset with screen print of the original cover motif, content bw offset, with folded plan of the video installation
Printed in Germany
Cover silk screen printed by Werkstatt Höflich, Munich

Published as Splitter 17 by Forum Queeres Archiv München, in cooperation with Hammann von Mier Verlag

ISBN: 978-3-935227-23-0