Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea in 1975 while attempting to sail from the US to Europe. In this book, Jan Verwoert highlights how Ader explores the role of the romantic hero in ways that are as conceptual and analytic as they are poetic and existential.
It is hard to define whether the photograph of Julius Koeller's action of demarcating a tennis court in Time/space Definition of the Psychophysical Activity of Matter 1, 2 (Anti-Happening) (1968) is an artwork, a document of an artwork or a mere event...
