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Claudia Peppel
A List of Fears
Eva Kot’átková’s Asylum
Usually, fears and phobias range under anxiety disorders, and are listed in psychiatric manuals. Their variety seems infinite, and their severity varies from a slight uneasiness or tension to a condition in which a state of great panic is induced by the specific stimulus, which can be an object, an animal, a number, people, spaces, ideas, or a particular situation. The list of fears by Czech artist Eva Kot'átková is part of the installation Asylum that was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Kot’átková’s works often reflect on the processes that restrict and manipulate people within institutions such as psychiatric hospitals or schools.
Keywords: Fear; Phobias; Collage; Lists; Visual list, List-making; Art series, Cycles (Art); Biennale di Venezia (55th : 2013 : Venice, Italy); Greenbook; Koťátková, Evá; Brecht, George; Floyer, Ceal; Kiwanga, Kapwani
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A List of Fears
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Eva Kot’átková’s Asylum
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Claudia Peppel
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Usually, fears and phobias range under anxiety disorders, and are listed in psychiatric manuals. Their variety seems infinite, and their severity varies from a slight uneasiness or tension to a condition in which a state of great panic is induced by the specific stimulus, which can be an object, an animal, a number, people, spaces, ideas, or a particular situation. The list of fears by Czech artist Eva Kot'átková is part of the installation Asylum that was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Kot’átková’s works often reflect on the processes that restrict and manipulate people within institutions such as psychiatric hospitals or schools.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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11 October 2022
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Fear
Phobias
Collage
Lists
Visual list, List-making
Art series, Cycles (Art)
Biennale di Venezia (55th : 2013 : Venice, Italy)
Greenbook
Koťátková, Evá
Brecht, George
Floyer, Ceal
Kiwanga, Kapwani
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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271
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276
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The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 271–76
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References
- ‘Eva Kot’átková’, in The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, ed. by Robert Klanten, Lincoln Dexter, Dennis Busch, and Francesca Gavin, 3 vols (Berlin: gestalten, 2013–20), III (2020), pp. 104–09
- Doctor, Ronald M., Ada P. Kahn, and Christine Adamec, eds, The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, 3rd edn (New York: Facts On File, 2008)
- Kot’átková, Eva, Asylum, installation, mixed media, dimensions variable, presented at 55th Venice Biennale, June–November 2013
- Kot’átková, Eva, Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces, 2 vols (Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2015)
- Rodríguez Muñoz, Bárbara, ‘Eva Kot’átková: Mental Armours’, Afterall, 25 February 2014 <https://www.afterall.org/article/eva-kot_tkov_mental-armours> [accessed 3 June 2022]
- Küper, Susanne, ed., Ceal Floyer: A Handbook (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2015)
- Zegher, Catherine de, ‘Theater of Speaking Objects: Conversation with Eva Kot’átková’, in Women’s Work is Never Done: An Anthology, ed. by de Zegher (Gent: AsaMer, 2014), pp. 520–33
Cite as:
Claudia Peppel, ‘A List of Fears: Eva Kot’átková’s Asylum’, in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 271-76 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_16>