Claudio Cambon – Shipbreak LOVE WANT “The Beast and the Sovereign”

“The Beast and the Sovereign” was Jacques Derrida’s last seminar

Photographer Dana Lixenberg stayed in Shishmaref for several weeks during the winter and summer of 2007

Thanks to a research grant

It consists of design proposals that range from a multi-faith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian

revisiting and reworking over a span of ten years

Claudio Cambon – Shipbreak LOVE WANT “The Beast and the Sovereign”Shipbreak tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990s. Through both words and images, it describes how the ship becomes a touchstone for many groups of people across the world: from the American shipbuilders who built her in the early 1960s and the seamen who worked on her for almost four decades all the way to the Bangladeshi shipbreakers who took the vessel apart, more