Log 21 Archiving in Formation

in Log 21 Archiving in Formation (2011)

Conditions, no. 7 Tell Them What They Need: The Jury

in Conditions, no. 7 Tell Them What They Need: The Jury (2011)

Actors, Agents and Attendants - Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health

Book published by Sternberg (2011)

Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the concept of care in ... [more ▼]

Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies and asks how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations. The publication brings together case studies of artistic and design interventions within health and social care institutions and broader political and philosophical essays and interviews relating to civic wellbeing. Contributors include curators, artists, politicians, architects, and healthcare professionals. Caring Culture is the first volume in the Actors, Agents and Attendants series of publications and symposia commissioned by SKOR to investigate the role of cultural practice in the organization of the public domain. Graphic Design by Metahaven. [less ▲]

Waking Up from The Nightmare of Participation

Book published by Expodium (2011)

Wake up from the Nightmare of Participation! This book presents a platform for the development of proactive engagement and aims to fuel an agonistic debate among theorists and practitioners from various ... [more ▼]

Wake up from the Nightmare of Participation! This book presents a platform for the development of proactive engagement and aims to fuel an agonistic debate among theorists and practitioners from various fields of knowledge, cultural backgrounds and political positions about the central thesis of Markus Miessen's recent publication The Nightmare of Participation - Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality. This book does not look for approval or consensual delibertion, but seeks for an agile examination of a proposed post-consensual (spatial) practice, formulating the necessity to undo the innocence of participation while promoting a conflictual reading of participation as a mode of proactive first person singular engagement: a step towards a state of acting and an individual, propositional practice. None of the contributions were content-edited; no consensual or editorial constraints were imposed on any of the contributors. Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is the epilogue to Miessen's trilogy on participation. Cover design by Liam Gillick. Contributors in order of appearance: Carson Chan, Patricia Reed, Tirdad Zolghadr, Schorsch Kamerun, Akademie c/o, Maria Fusco, Liam Gillick, Mika Hannula, Phillip Zach, Angelique Campens, Suhail Malik, Michael Hirsch, Jan Nauta, Federica Bueti, Dieter Roelstraete, Kristina Lee Podesva, Eyal Danon, Melanie O'Brian, Jeremy Till, Luigi Fassi, Morten Paul, Felix Vogel, Dan Perjovschi, Nina Möntmann, Hu Fang, Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber), Mark von Schlegell, Adnan Yildiz, Mark Fisher, Eva Tuerks, Magnus Nilsson, Ashkan Sepahvand, Wolfgang Zinggl, Stefan Heidenreich, Can Altay, Julia Moritz, Andrea Phillips, Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel Müller, Cybermohalla Ensemble, Jan Verwoert. [less ▲]

Evasions of Power: on the architecture of extraordinary adjustment

Book published by Slought Foundation (2011)

Contribution: The Dilemma of Instrumentalization The publication is published by Slought Foundation in Philadelphia with kuda.nao in Novi Sad. It is jointly edited by Katherine Carl (Curator and Deputy ... [more ▼]

Contribution: The Dilemma of Instrumentalization The publication is published by Slought Foundation in Philadelphia with kuda.nao in Novi Sad. It is jointly edited by Katherine Carl (Curator and Deputy Director, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center), Aaron Levy (Chief Curator and Executive Director, Slought Foundation), and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Assistant Professor, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Architecture Department). Major support for this publication provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago, Illinois. Additional support provided by the Society of Friends of Slought Foundation, Normal Architecture Office (NAO), the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Department of Architecture, the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art History and Department of English, the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. [less ▲]

Hans Ulrich Obrist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* But Were Afraid to Ask

Book published by Sternberg Press (2011)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book. Spanning the beginning of his “career” as a young curator in ... [more ▼]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book. Spanning the beginning of his “career” as a young curator in his Zurich kitchen to his time most recently as the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs, and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the book is a “production of reality conversations.” It undertakes the impossible: pinning down this peripatetic curator, attempting to map his psychogeography so that silences may be transcribed. In a sense, it organizes a “protest against forgetting” and affirms the sagacity of an artist who told this dontstop curator “don’t go” when he “contemplated leaving the art world” for other fields—“to go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge”—in lieu of bringing other fields into the (then) hermetic art world. [less ▲]

The World of Gimel

Book published by Sternberg Press (2011)

A matrix of life, nature and the cosmos, Antje Majewski’s World of Gimel is the artist’s own private universal museum in a nutshell, featuring a septet of objects: a clay teapot in the form of a human ... [more ▼]

A matrix of life, nature and the cosmos, Antje Majewski’s World of Gimel is the artist’s own private universal museum in a nutshell, featuring a septet of objects: a clay teapot in the form of a human hand, a shell, a pot made of fragrant wood, a Buddha’s hand citron, a hedge apple, a white stone, a meteorite—acquired by Majewski during her numerous travels and encounters. The exhibition is a book; the book is an exhibition; the World of Gimel—a hybrid of Aleph and Babel, of fantasy and scientific knowledge—is a language laboratory, a structure en abîme, Majewski’s unique venture into the universe of things and their other identity. Participating artists: Thomas Bayrle, Helke Bayrle, Marcel Duchamp, Didier Faustino, Pawel Freisler, Delia Gonzalez, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Edward Edward Krasiński, Leonore Mau, Markus Miessen & Ralf Pflugfelder, Dirk Peuker, Agnieszka Polska, Mathilde Rosier, Gavin Russom, Issa Samb, Juliane Solmsdorf, Simon Starling & Superflex, El Hadji Sy, Neal Tait. [less ▲]

inbook outbook ifbook

Book published by Idea Books (2011)

Library/IFbook is an open platform on contemporary artist books, designed by young French designer Maël Veisse (Metz, 1985) in collaboration with a+m bookstore and viaindustriae; the project consists of ... [more ▼]

Library/IFbook is an open platform on contemporary artist books, designed by young French designer Maël Veisse (Metz, 1985) in collaboration with a+m bookstore and viaindustriae; the project consists of eleven mini-setups, conceived as “work pods” presenting editorial works by eleven artists: Banu Cennettoglu, Daniela Comani, Celine Condorelli, Documentation Celine Duval, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Daniel Eatock, Dora Garcia, invernomuto, Markus Miessen, Helene Sommer, The Iinfinite Library (Epaminonda & Cramer). [less ▲]

Performa 09: Back to Futurism

Book published by Performa 09 (2011)

Written and edited by legendary performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 09: Back to Futurism is the definitive document of the unforgettable Performa 2009 biennial. It is the third volume to ... [more ▼]

Written and edited by legendary performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 09: Back to Futurism is the definitive document of the unforgettable Performa 2009 biennial. It is the third volume to draw content and inspiration from the world-renowned Performa biennials, and features creative documentation by the 150 artists who made Performa 09 so extraordinary--among them Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski and Yeondoo Jung (all of whom presented special Performa Commissions) and Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Alicia Framis, Loris Greaud, William Kentridge and Joan Jonas (who brought US premieres to the biennial). Photographs of each artist's performance and texts contributed by curators and critics provide accounts of every show, as well as an understanding of the importance of each work within the artist's individual career and in relation to larger artistic trends. Taking place at over 80 of New York's most exciting art and cultural venues, Performa 09 was created as a collaboration between all of these moving parts, so a portrait of the city's remarkable history of cultural innovation also emerges from these pages. Performa 09: Back to Futurism is not only a gorgeous document of a remarkable biennial, but also an invaluable reference guide to the most significant artists of our time, for art historians and fans alike. [less ▲]

The New City Reader (A Newspaper Of Public Space), no. 7 Weather Patterns

in The New City Reader (A Newspaper Of Public Space), no. 7 Weather Patterns (2010)