Claudia Mesch Assistant Professor, Arizona State University (2001-)

1968 Inaugural Exhibition, New National Gallery, Berlin W. Sitte, My Parents from the LPG, 1962 J. Beuys in the Office for Direct Democracy, Documenta, 1972 M. Duchamp/E. Babitz Playing Chess, 1963 W. Vostell, Your Candidate, 1961, décollage

Contact Information Mailing Address: Room 102, School of Art, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287; Office Location: Art 260 E-mail address: mailto:claudia.mesch@asu.edu Office phone: 480-965-8864; Fax: 480-965-8338 Biographical Information B.A., Yale University; M.A., Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., The University of Chicago (1997) Mesch C.V. Teaching/Research Areas Modern and Contemporary Art; Art Theory. Special focus on art in East and West Germany after 1961. Fluxus and fluxus fringe performance (Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell). Games and twentieth-century art; new media. Courses Offered, 2004-5 Fall 2004: ARS 498/591, Art and Culture of the 1960s (Seminar) Spring 2005: ARS 494/598, Art Now (Special Topics) Back to top Upcoming Modernist Events at ASU February, 2005: Guest Lecture in New Media by Prof. Yvonne Spielmann, Berlin ASU Annual Horwitch Lecture 2005 (Speaker TBA) Links of Interest The Carnegie International 2004-5, Pittsburgh, PA The current Carnegie International Exhibition http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/home.html The always-stimulating ASU Art Museum http://www.art-magazin.de/ Art, a popular German art magazine http://www.precursors.org/ Website of The Space Between, 1914-1945 Current Projects Demarcating Art: Around the Berlin Wall 1961-1989 This book traces East and West Germany’s common recovery of modern art during the Cold War. Argues that installation, performance, televised art, and other “autonomous” projects in the East and West sectors demanded the viewer’s reckoning with specific zones, sites, and traces of the recent past. In the Penumbra of Modern Art: a Beuys Reader Co-edited with Viola Michely (Cologne, Germany) An anthology of the most significant critical studies and commentary of the last thirty years on Beuys’ art which have never been widely available toEnglish-language readers. The volume includes two previously untranslated interviews. The editors’ introduction presents a critical overview of Beuys’ reception in English and German-language art history. Contributors include Dirk Luckow, Antje von Graevenitz, Barbara Lange, Eugen Blume, Theodora Vischer, Dorothea Zwirner and Peter Bürger. Back to top Recent Publications “Serious Play: Games and Early Twentieth-Century Modernism”, in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 (Fall, 2004) “Rethinking Conceptual Art,” caa.reviews (Summer, 2002), caa.reviews essay "Vostell's Ruins: Dé-collage and the Mnemotechnic Space of the Postwar City," Art History Vol. 23 No.1 (March 2000). “Racing Berlin: The Games of Run Lola Run,” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3, no. 3 (2000), M/C 2000 Back to top Last revised: November 21, 2004