Since 2012 the artist Anke Becker draws the visual poems economic words: With a black marker, words and whole sentences are crossed out from newspaper clippings of the business newspaper Financial Times. Only isolated words remain visible. Previously hidden meaning emerges beyond stock exchange quotations and international money flows.

economic words are laconic notations of a subjective character, filtered out of journalistic texts that analyze general economic events. In the book, a new, extensive text body of words and lines is created from a selection of full-size economic words: Visually minimalist but contentwise baroquely sprawling and meandering.

To date, over 2,000 of the small-format text drawings exist on newspaper clippings. All economic words have been archived on a blog since 2012 in the order in which they were created: www.economicwords.com.

With this publication, two new versions of the project are available at once: as a printed book with 231 images and a volume of 480 pages and an e-book with texts by Robin Detje and Beate Tröger, 299 images and audio files of the spoken poems.

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Newspaper — »Archäologie autonomer Zeitungen in den 90ern: scheinschlag und A.N.Y.P.« — conversation with Ulrike Steglich and Stephan Geen

Archive — »Es wird gewesen sein: (Über)Leben und Arbeiten im post Futur II-Zeitalter.« — conversation with Bettina Allamoda

Office — »Wir wollten, dass auf der Ebene der Produktion miteinander gesprochen wird.« — conversation with Waling Boers

Sound carrier — »Diese Verweigerungshaltung, die kann ich total nachvollziehen.« — conversation with Mo Loschelder

Video — »Wie besetzte ich ein Haus, und wie berichte ich darüber?« — conversation with Manuel Zimmer

Poster — »So inszenieren wir die Stadt!« — conversation with Carl Hegemann and Bernd Frank

The series of talks took place as part of the research project Autonomy and Functionalisation — a Cultural-Historical-Aesthetic Analysis of Art Concepts in the Visual Arts in Berlin from the 1990s to the Present at the Berlin University of the Arts, funded by the Einstein Foundation.

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