Sweat New and former visitors

and former visitors

Rebecka Katz Thor

Brandeis University

populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity

We are facing vast

Sweat New and former visitorsSweat is a sign of both attraction and struggle, joy and excess; it relays fear and illness; it is evidence of exertion and expenditure. As a residue of physical vitality, sweat modulates temperature while enlivening the senses and smoothing the friction among conjugating bodies. Published alongside the eponymous exhibition Sweat at the Haus der Kunst, this book gathers together over thirty artists and writersincluding new commissions and pathbreaking