Architecture and Naturing Affairs

Architecture and Naturing Affairs
Author: Mihye An
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035622167

In this anthology with contributions about architecture, media, and infrastructure technology, the authors investigate in what multifaceted way architecture and information is in tune with contemporary technology, and in what way we live with them. The book is divided into following parts: BREEDING (medialising matter), BREATHING (transcending language), and INHABITING (making things inhabitable). The compilation of various text contributions creates a lexicon of ‘naturing affairs’ and is written for readers who look for an inspiring overview of our medialised environments.

Made in Germany?

Made in Germany?
Author: Lynette Roth
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300278802

An examination of shifting notions of identity in modern-day Germany--and the diverse artists challenging conventional meanings of "Germanness" today Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation addresses important questions of contemporary art and belonging in Germany from the 1980s, when discussions about multiculturalism in West Germany came to the fore, to our current time, a period still deeply impacted by the country's unification and more recent migration policies. In the wake of these developments, racial violence, right-wing populism, and ethnically defined nationalism have grown. Accessible essays on topics such as labor migration, being Black in Germany, and the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall lay the groundwork for understanding the intercultural dynamics in Germany today. Object-focused texts delve into works in various media, from Candida Höfer's slideshow Turks in Germany 1979, which presented Turkish immigrants as embedded in public life at a time when they were not welcomed as a permanent part of German society, to Ngozi Schommers's readymade sculpture Commuters, a commentary on the country's ongoing housing crisis. In a period when right-wing nationalist movements are gaining traction in Germany and around the globe, Made in Germany? argues for a more expansive idea of what it means to be German, spotlighting artists from diverse backgrounds whose works probe notions of national identity. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums Exhibition Schedule: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (September 13, 2024-January 5, 2025)

Yngve Holen

Yngve Holen
Author: Yngve Holen
Publisher: Distanz
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Human beings in art
ISBN: 9783954761456

The NorwegianGerman artist Yngve Holen (b. Braunschweig, 1982; lives and works in Berlin) uses sculpture and imaging techniques to explore themes of transportation, technology, and the body. The multiple series of works he made between 2010-2015 illustrate Holen's use of 3D printing, watercutting, tailoring, and consumer spare parts to test the material limits that define today's industries and our everyday surroundings. Trypophobia is Holen's first monograph and includes seven essays by writers and artists. Repeatedly alternating between satin and uncoated papers, the book phases between serial images and text. It begins with a SWOT analysis of the artist by Aedrhlsomrs Othryutupt Lauecehrofn that evaluates Holen's strengths, wea¬knesses, opportunities, and threats. Victoria Camblin discusses Holen's use of industrial objects that feature holes, exploring the esoteric and erotic significance of the form in art history. Combining an essay with an interview with the artist, Thom Bettridge considers our obsession with hygiene, the consumerasproduct, and how far an idea can go before it stops working. S01E01 wri¬tes about the psychological implications of today's industrial speed, particularly through our relationship to commercial air travel. Outlining the problems of the contemporary, Pablo Larios exa¬mines the animism and fetishism of capitalism, coded forms of closed trade knowledge, and biological humor in sculpture. Karl Holmqvist looks at Holen's 3Dprinted, titaniumgrade metal Hater Head screw and the role such tiny objects play in the built environ¬ment as well as in our minds and fantasies. Finally, Eric Schmid probes the gap between the spaces of thought of philosophers Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, arguing for determinism in our preoccupation with the event.

Mean Boys

Mean Boys
Author: Geoffrey Mak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1635577950

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY DEBUTIFUL, LIT HUB, PASTE MAGAZINE, BOOK RIOT, INSIDE HOOK, AND NYLON "This book is a rare comfort, a companion . . . Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.”-Torrey Peters A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present. You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril. In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants readers an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging. Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, Mean Boys investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us.

Beyond Matter, Within Space

Beyond Matter, Within Space
Author: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2024-08-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775757589

Exhibition spaces are physical places of knowledge production and exchange. Their spatial properties play an important role in contextualizing information. Virtual stagings of exhibitions should therefore retain these properties. The Beyond Matter research project (2019–23) aims to unravel the intertwining of physical and virtual structures and their impact on spatial aspects in art production, curating, and art education, and thus to identify ways to preserve cultural heritage in the digital age. This publication offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse research activities, exhibition and book projects, and symposia that have taken place or emerged in the course of the international Beyond Matter project at the various partner institutions.

The seventh BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors

The seventh BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors
Author: BMW Group, Independent Collectors
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-04-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775755845

The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents 304 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public—featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections with countless color illustrations take the reader to 51 countries, often to regions or urban districts that are off-the-beaten-path. This practical guide is a collaborative publication stemming from the partnership between BMW and Independent Collectors, the international online platform for collectors of contemporary art. To date, neither the Internet nor any book has ever contained a comparable assembly of international private collections, including several that have opened their doors to art lovers and connoisseurs for the first time.

The Codes of the Global in the Twenty-first Century

The Codes of the Global in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Anna Maria Guasch
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 8491680349

At the start of the twenty-first century, the contemporary implies a clear desire to affirm a type of art that is expanding across the globe, challenging old geographical borders, and reclaiming narratives of place and displacement; in other words, new cultural practices that transfigure the relationship between the global and the local, and articulate the discourse of difference. Being in the place of here and now, working with others in simultaneous and specific practice, and contemplating the production of work in the experience of connection means raising the value of the performative aspect of practice and displacing the reflective role of cultural production. In the new cartography of this multifarious global art, the author, who combines theoretical and curatorial discourse with creative practice, defines how global concepts circulate from the critical analysis of transnational contemporary art to the global.

The fifth BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors

The fifth BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors
Author: BMW Group, Independent Collectors
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775748334

The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents nearly 300 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public—featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections with countless color illustrations take the reader to more than 40 countries, often to regions or urban districts that are off the beaten path. This practical guide is a collaborative publication stemming from the partnership between BMW and Independent Collectors, the international online platform for collectors of contemporary art. To date, neither the Internet nor any book has ever contained a comparable assembly of international private collections, including several that have opened their doors to art lovers and connoisseurs for the first time.

The Violence of Participation

The Violence of Participation
Author: Markus Miessen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Is Europe a place, a space, or a temporary community of shared interests? As a political space, Europe is as conflictual as its debated constitution. It is a construct that must be continuously negotiated, and its longing for an architecture of strategic encounters parallels an increasing economical power of the private sector, while the sovereignty of European nation states attenuate. This book, edited by London-based architect and author Markus Miessen, marks an extension of the discursive space he has produced as contribution to the 2007 Lyon Biennial. He has pulled together a heterogeneous group of interlocutors to lead conversations on alternative notions of participation, the inconsistence between democratic concepts, and what it means to live in Europe today"--Publisher's website.