TRAP by Daniel Hopp

TRAP - Interviews Concerning the Risks and Opportunities of Artistic Collective Practice

108 pages, b/w offset print, spiral binding, glossy foil cover, ISBN: 978-3-944954-64-6

DH: Baby, how can one empower oneself in THAT?

Trap captures Daniel Hopp's collaborative artistic practice at the intersection of performance and film through a collage of interviews with former collaborators, friends and companions. Parenthetically, the potentials, limits and risks of collective artistic processes are revealed. Trap is not just an artist's catalog, but a book object as much as a mise-en-scène. Somewhere between fairy tales, sociology, aesthetics and network marketing, the protagonists of Trap meet in a roundtable discussion that never really happened as one. The question of the actual reason for this encounter constantly arises. Who can say whether it is a trap?

Interviews with: Harry Baer, Kenneth Dow, Amna Mawaz Khan, Dr. Charlotte Klink, Lena Mai Merle, Imran Mushter Siddiqui, Wolfgang Kerim Schroeder, Dr. Philipp Zehmisch

Short video

Design: Caspar Reuss

Concept developed in close collaboration with @casparreuss .

Daniel Hopp is an Austrian artist working with performance and film. He stages social circumstances and orchestrates his protagonists in precisely edited video works.
Professional actors, relatives, friends and he himself meet in situational responses to a predetermined exploration. Channelled through intense group dynamics, his performances highlight the eternal conflict between individual desire and the need for social belonging.

All proceeds will be forwarded to the Centre of Arts and Wellbeing in Karachi. @cfaw_. In their Library of Peace, 309 children, the co-authors in this project, share a part of themselves- their sense of identity, their explorations of the notion of friendship and what that entails, their ideas of harmony and inclusion and their dreams and visions for a future where there is place for all to express and share.