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Home Voodoo
This book features essays by Tom Trevor and Eva Maria Stadler. This catalogue accompanies the first major solo exhibition in the UK for the internationally renowned Austrian artist-duo, Lois and Franziska Weinberger. The diverse media employed in their practice incorporates sculpture, found objects, text pieces, large-scale mural drawings and maps, slide works, photography, video installations and site-specific interventions.
Kunst Im Öffentlichen Raum Wien 2014-2016
The fourth volume in the series on art in Vienna?s public space offers a survey of the manifold projects realized and initiated by KÖR GmbH in the years 2014 to 2016. Mechtild Widrich?s and Eva Maria Stadler?s introductory contributions shed light on how such works deeply configure and inform the cityscape and critically reflect the transformation of the public sphere.
Abstraction & Economy
Wider das Regime der Akkumulation und Abstraktion Die Anthologie untersucht das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Abstraktion und Ökonomie aus Perspektiven der Kunst, Kunsttheorie, Kunstgeschichte sowie Recht, Soziologie, Philosophie und Ökonomie. Sie stellt Fragen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen einer globalen kapitalistischen Wirtschaft mit Anspruch auf expansives Wachstum im Verhältnis zu Ästhetik, Technologie und Demokratie. In theoretischen und künstlerischen Beiträgen wird das Verhältnis von Abstraktion und Ökonomie diskutiert. Im Fokus stehen die Frage nach der Rolle der Kunst zwischen Konkretion und Abstraktion, formalistische Ansätze der Kunsttheorie sowie soziale und ökonomisc...
Mirjam Thomann - 2015
This artist's book and monograph presents a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015--including a ceramic project at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; spatial interventions at Galerie Christian Nagel in Cologne and Berlin; an installation at Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, later recontextualized for exhibitions in Arnsberg and Cologne; or a series of display sculptures based on a reconstruction of exhibition architecture from the 1960s. For all her work, Thomann uses what is at hand at a certain site as an impetus, as material, space, and terrain. Along with spreads of 109 color images, 2015 Mirjam Thomann includes a preface by art historian and cu...
Art Or Life
The point of origin for Art or Life: Aesthetics and Biopolitics is an investigation of the interconnections between work, economy, knowledge, and politics. The focus is trained on the question of how art approaches the interplay between work and life, and what role it plays in the process.In the context set by curated by_vienna, curators were invited to develop special exhibitions for galleries, all of which are documented in this publication.An essay by Beatrice von Bismarck on the issue of curatorial agency and Isolde Charim's exploration of the concept of biopolitics create the framework for this unique collaborative project.curated by_vienna is the creative agency of the City of Vienna, promoting collaboration between Vienna's leading contemporary art galleries and internationally renowned curators.English and German text.
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Why painting now?
Published to accompany a group of exhibitions in Vienna, Why Painting Now? looks at the relation of painting to information and communication media and other issues of contemporaneity. Curators such as Ei Arakawa, Yve-Alain Bois, Tyler Coburn, Antony Hudek, Franklin Melendez, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Martin Prinzhorn, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Caroline Smulders and Jan Verwoert contribute.
American Learned Men and Women with Czechoslovak Roots
Apart from a few articles, no comprehensive study has been written about the learned men and women in America with Czechoslovak roots. That’s what this compendium is all about, with the focus on immigration from the period of mass migration and beyond, irrespective whether they were born in their European ancestral homes or whether they have descended from them. Czech and Slovak immigrants, including Bohemian Jews, have brought to the New World their talents, their ingenuity, their technical skills, their scientific knowhow, and their humanistic and spiritual upbringing, reflecting upon the richness of their culture and traditions, developed throughout centuries in their ancestral home. Th...
The Codes of the Global in the Twenty-first Century
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.
