Burial of the White Man

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A bildungsroman about an artist and writer who embark on increasingly outrageous projects-culminating in the burial of the entire subspecies of the white man.Burial of the White Man is a bildungsroman about the friendship between artist Erik Niedling and writer Ingo Niermann. Two German men in their thirties, they begin collaborating on a series of projects of ever-increasing ambition and scope- a tomb for all humans, a dissident replica of the US army, a German-Mozambican youth and liberation movement, a ritual of living one year as if it's your last, a transformation of the oldest and most troubled German political party, a global fitness cult..... Each failure is answered with an even more outrageous endeavor-culminating in the burial not only of themselves, but of the entire subspecies of the white man. Burial of the White Man is an auto-fiction by Erik Niedling, interpolated by manifestos and proposals by Ingo Niermann and expanded by Austrian-American poet Ann Cotten and German novelist Jakob Nolte. The third volume of the Future of Art series, the book accompanies Erik Niedling's web series, Pyramid Mountain- A Video Diary.

Erik Niedling is a German artist. He is also known for his 2010 film The Future of Art, a documentary on the contemporary art scene. Ingo Niermann is a German novelist, writer, and artist. Ingo Niermann is a writer and the editor of the Solution Series. His recent publications include Burial of the White Man(with Erik Niedling) andSolution 275-294- Communists Anonymous (edited with Joshua Simon). Based on his novelSolution 257- Complete Love, Niermann initiated the Army of Love, a project that tests and promotes a just redistribution of sensual love.