Don Juan: Two Plus Two Equals Four or Lust Is the Only Deception That I Wish Permanence

by Matt, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9783938821367
• ISBN10: 3938821361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

This study of Don Giovanni, alias Don Juan, includes work from 15 contemporary artists working in video, including Tracey Moffatt, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm and Sam Taylor-Wood. As E. T. A. Hoffmann would have it, Mozart's Don Giovanniis the "opera of operas"--but who is the Don, and what contemporary relevance does his breathtaking lifestyle have? Sometimes an unscrupulous hedonist, and then again a weak man overwhelmed by desire and despair, he generates a dazzling variety of roles and identities. In the end, everything, even feeling, is exposed as a masquerade, but still he says, "Lust is the only deception that I wish permanence." Images are accompanied by Elfriede Jelinek's radio play Jackieand by interviews with filmmaker Michael Haneke and composer Olga Neuwirth, all in accordance with the motto "Seduce and be seduced, view and be viewed."

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(3)
Gerald Matt
Quotations	12	(2)
Don Juan (in his own words)	14	(4)
Peter Handke
Death and the Maiden IV (Jackie)	18	(7)
Elfriede Jelinek
I have a Rendezvous with Death (poem)	25	(1)
Alan Seeger
From the Libretto Don Juan by Lorenzo da Ponte	26	(4)
Reinhard Eisendle
A Sphinx without Mystery	30	(8)
Olga Neuwirth
Don Giovanni ``. . . his addiction to pleasure makes him our contemporary''	38	(6)
Michael Haneke
A Chameleon in the History of Literature: How Don Juan Roams through the Centuries	44	(4)
Gaby Hartel
``I have made all of them cry!''	48	(20)
Gerald Matt
Trapped in the Male Gaze	68	(3)
Thomas Miessgang
Love	71	(4)
Tracey Moffatt
Seduction	75	(14)
Noritoshi Hirakawa
Kiki Seror
Erwin Wurm
Lilli
Lola
Flight (Attraction / Repulsion)	89	(6)
Takehito Koganezawa
A K Dolven
Sam Taylor-Wood
Amorality (Anarchy / Cynicism)	95	(10)
Klaus Pobitzer
Vlad Monroe
Yearning for Death (Loneliness/Decent to Hell)	105	(8)
Doron Solomons
Ugo Rondinone
Zoran Naskovski
Revencge (Hurt/Liberation)	113	(12)
Ellen Cantor
Tracey Rose
Helgard Haug
Daniel Wetzel
Various Authors	125	(5)
Statements
The Don Juan Flirt Maschine	130	(4)
Julius Deutschbauer
Gerhard Spring
DonJuan in Film since 1953	134	(1)
Don Juan in Literature since 1953	134	(2)
Biographies	136	(6)
List of Works	142	(1)
Picture and Text Credits	143	(1)
Imprint	144