Alexander Kluge. Raw Materials: Present Impressions, Past Wishes and Future Fulfillment

Alongside the exhibition ‘Unwoven World: Beyond the Pliable Plane’ in spring 2014, OCA presented a selection of Alexander Kluge’s eclectic collection of ‘raw materials’, a series of television programmes assembling photographs, drawings, diagrams and diverse footage construed to ‘strengthen the muscles of [our] power of imagination’. In Public Sphere and Experience (written by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt in 1972) the authors draw from Walter Benjamin’s criticism of the information-driven content of modern forms of communication.