The Handbuch für die Reise durch Afrika (Handbook for the Journey through Africa) is the first work co-published by Ariane Müller, of Starship Verlag, Berlin, and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel - and it was one of the literary surprises of 2013.
This evening marks the book’s first presentation in Austria, presided over by the artist and author, who provides a glimpse into her exciting, intelligently narrated, unusual journeys through Nairobi, Kenya, including rapid, correlating projections of exoticism; book-within-a book suspense; bi-continental, mutual, doubt-related racism; and the fleeting, dark attraction of diplomats, told from the present-day heart of darkness - as well as many more brief episodes related in stunning language.