HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT accompanies the exhibition activities by Simone Neuenschwander and Christiane Rekade at the independent exhibition space OSLO10 in Basel. The project OSLO10 is a support program of the Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel. The publication serves as a reflexive space around the concept of the avant-garde. It includes the essay “This difficulty of 'accurate recognition'...” by art historians Claudia Blümle and Hans-Christian von Herrmann, which reflects on the war-related aesthetic of the avant-garde as a term from military strategy. In “Things that leave me sleepless”, Gernot Wieland recalls the heroic figures of his childhood, and in “W as in Gesamtkunstwerk” Karl Holmqvist sketches a series of associations ranging from the artists of the Wiener Werkstätte and their ideal of the total work of art to the image of the VW Beetle, and the urban changes that have taken place in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood. 
Beside the book shows a large documentation of the exhibitions and events at OSLO10. The publication was generously supported by: Kulturförderung Appenzell Ausserrhoden, kulturelles.bl and Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt.