All-Inclusive: A Tourist World

This entertaining and often hilarious exhibition catalog from Schirn
Kunsthalle Frankfurt is a thought-provoking exploration of our global
society through the tourist experience. The curators see tourism as
something that perpetuates clichés about cultural and national identity;
real landscapes blur into artificial geographies like ski resort-themed
water parks, indoor beaches with synthetic sun lamps, or aircraft
carriers equipped with roller coasters and volcanoes. More than 30
artists create photography, multimedia installations, sculpture and
prose travelogues that veer between the authentic and the absurd,
attempting to answer the question: how should tourists interact with
the bogus world of tourism, and what should they learn?