In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space. The… Read more »
Unlawful Assembly
Unlawful Assembly is a fictional piece of writing by Lucy McKenzie & Alan Michael as part of Volcano Extravaganza – a series of events, performances, conferences and exhibitions curated by Lucy McKenzie at the Fiorucci Art Trust, taking place at Stromboli from July-August 2013. Second edition published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, coming soon !
Anfang Gut. Alles Gut. Actualizations of the futurist opera Victory Over the Sun. Kunsthaus Bregenz A r e n a, Bd. 2
“Premiered in St. Petersburg in 1913, and written in “zaum”–a Russian Futurist nonsense language–Victory over the Sun was a vastly ambitious opera, a collaboration between the poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh, the composer and painter Mikhail Matyushin and the painter Kazimir Malevich (who made his legendary “Black Square” painting for the work). Anfang Gut…. Read more »
On Performance, Kunsthaus Bregenz A r e n a, Bd. 1
Visual Identity for a series of publications for Kunsthaus Bregenz A r e n a. “From fall 2012, a series of KUB Arena Publications, edited by Yilmaz Dziewior and Eva Birkenstock, is regularly accompanying exhibitions and events in the KUB Arena. On Performance is the first volume published in this series; it not only documents… Read more »
Bodies in the Backdrop
“This book is devoted to the re-presentation and re-installation of a single artwork, Tobias Kaspar’s installation Bodies in the Backdrop, conceived as a site-specific installation. Kaspar worked with material from Peggy Guggenheim’s autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict and photographs taken at Guggenheim’s palazzo in Venice in 2011. The body of work referred to the… Read more »
This Book is a Classroom
“…We would like to learn, and we are working on a book. The room it offers is circumscribed and structured by the book‘s parameters: format, binding, jacket, title page, layout, preface, postface, table of contents, captions, cross headings, intertitles, annotations, editorial notes, appendix, blurb, names and accessories. This book is a classroom. We invite you… Read more »
It was the streets that raised me, streets that paid me, streets that made me a product of my environment
“Coming from a Hiphop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines self-taken photographs of our surroundings and found footage ranging from movie stills to reproduced magazines and record covers. Both layers are intertwined in a fictional script, formulating… Read more »
Dealing With– Some Texts, Images, and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co.
“The New York gallery American Fine Arts, Co.‚ whose name today is largely synonymous with that of its gallerist, Colin de Land (1955–2003)‚ represents a gallery practice in which a decided deviation from conventional models overlaps with successful activities within the framework of the art market. Today, American Fine Arts, Co. and de Land figure… Read more »
Rehearsing Collectivity – Choreography Beyond Dance
“Rehearsing Collectivity – Choreography Beyond Dance deals with existing interconnections between the concepts of choreography (as the organization of bodily movement in space and time) and collectivity. (…) The issue of collectivity has taken on an increased political, social and cultural relevance in light of contemporary phenomena such as social networking, mass migration and new… Read more »
Die Wende
“Die Wende (›the Turn‹ in German) is the story of a group of women from former East Germany who are training to perform a particular movement in synchronized swimming, called ›die Wende‹, in which the swimmer perform an underwater backwards loop. Thee women, most of them over 60, are part of a still active East… Read more »
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