The Biennial reader
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Born as a vehicle for national propaganda, the art biennial today has become an outsize phenomenon mobilizing not only artists, curators and gallerists but sponsors, celebrities and politicians, commanding huge press attention and deciding the careers of artists worldwide. For a city to host a biennial today has colossal ramifications. This anthology on the art biennial(...)
The Biennial reader
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Born as a vehicle for national propaganda, the art biennial today has become an outsize phenomenon mobilizing not only artists, curators and gallerists but sponsors, celebrities and politicians, commanding huge press attention and deciding the careers of artists worldwide. For a city to host a biennial today has colossal ramifications. This anthology on the art biennial gathers previously published seminal texts from around the world alongside commissioned contributions from the leading scholars, curators, critics and thinkers today--among them Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Buren, John Clark, Okwui Enwezor, Bruce Ferguson, Milena Hoegsberg, Ranjit Hoskote, Caroline A. Jones, Jakouba Konaté, Gerardo Mosquera and Rafal Niemojewski. Tracing the genealogy of the standard exhibition format and examining some of the most famous examples of the twentieth and twenty-first century this reader explores the artistic, theoretical, and political ambitions of such large-scale exhibition projects.
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Daniel Spoerri : eaten by
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Daniel Spoerri was a co-signatory of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960, an early member of Fluxus and the author of the classic "Anecdoted Topography of Chance", which recorded and annotated the contents of Spoerri's desk. In 1968 Spoerri also opened Restaurant Spoerri, introducing his concept of "Eat Art," which he had initiated a decade earlier, and which explored(...)
Daniel Spoerri : eaten by
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Daniel Spoerri was a co-signatory of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960, an early member of Fluxus and the author of the classic "Anecdoted Topography of Chance", which recorded and annotated the contents of Spoerri's desk. In 1968 Spoerri also opened Restaurant Spoerri, introducing his concept of "Eat Art," which he had initiated a decade earlier, and which explored the creation, decay and "trapping" of food upon tables that were then recapitulated as assemblages. Marking the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday, this publication approaches the theme of food throughout Spoerri's oeuvre, from the early 1960s to the present. It includes the artist's replica of the Restaurant Spoerri, a survey of Spoerri's trap pictures from 1978 to 1992, and a large number of more recent assemblages and sculptures, bringing his audience fully up to date.
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August 2010
Contemporary Art Monographs
Oase 81: Criticism revisted
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This issue of OASE examines the diminishing culture of architecture criticism, and the role that architecture magazines play within the current debate. A record of events organized around the journal's twenty-fifth anniversary, this issue brings together important critical voices around one central question: what role should the architecture journal play in an(...)
Oase 81: Criticism revisted
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This issue of OASE examines the diminishing culture of architecture criticism, and the role that architecture magazines play within the current debate. A record of events organized around the journal's twenty-fifth anniversary, this issue brings together important critical voices around one central question: what role should the architecture journal play in an increasingly acritical landscape?
Magazines
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This edition of Architecture in the Netherlands honors the country's most remarkable architecture of 2009. The 30 selected projects provide an overview of the diverse trends, design strategies and themes that shaped the year. It includes a calendar of significant news events, as well as a listing of the year's most important prizes, competitions, exhibitions, articles and(...)
Architecture in the Netherlands 2009/10
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This edition of Architecture in the Netherlands honors the country's most remarkable architecture of 2009. The 30 selected projects provide an overview of the diverse trends, design strategies and themes that shaped the year. It includes a calendar of significant news events, as well as a listing of the year's most important prizes, competitions, exhibitions, articles and publications.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Javier Hinojosa: seasons
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Javier Hinojosa has spent the past 30 years devising black-and-white portraits of the imposing archaeological remains and protected natural areas of various countries in Latin America. This publication offers an perspective on these riches. Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Casa Amèrica Catalunya, it gathers Hinojosa’s images of the topologies and(...)
Javier Hinojosa: seasons
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Javier Hinojosa has spent the past 30 years devising black-and-white portraits of the imposing archaeological remains and protected natural areas of various countries in Latin America. This publication offers an perspective on these riches. Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Casa Amèrica Catalunya, it gathers Hinojosa’s images of the topologies and horizons of Latin America, terrains now under protection and therefore rarely seen, approaching them throughout the seasons to convey a portrait of geologic time underway.
Photography monographs
Native land: Stop eject
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Filmmaker Raymond Depardon and eminent philosopher Paul Virilio discuss the relationship between ideas of homeland and rootedness, at a time when human migration has reached an unprecedented scale. Illustrating their dialogue, the artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin have devised a cartographic collaboration that tracks(...)
August 2010
Native land: Stop eject
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Filmmaker Raymond Depardon and eminent philosopher Paul Virilio discuss the relationship between ideas of homeland and rootedness, at a time when human migration has reached an unprecedented scale. Illustrating their dialogue, the artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin have devised a cartographic collaboration that tracks environmental, political and economic migrations around the world.
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In 2009, the NAi-Ymere biennial celebrated the explorer Henry Hudson, whose pioneering travels laid the foundation for the development of New York City. In the vein of the Fort Amsterdam military post he built on Manhattan's southern tip, participants were asked to imagine new ways to transform the North Amsterdam waterfront.
Waterfront visions: transformations in north Amsterdam
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In 2009, the NAi-Ymere biennial celebrated the explorer Henry Hudson, whose pioneering travels laid the foundation for the development of New York City. In the vein of the Fort Amsterdam military post he built on Manhattan's southern tip, participants were asked to imagine new ways to transform the North Amsterdam waterfront.
Urban Landscapes
Metropolis no.4: Metrozones
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This fourth volume of Metropolis examines how waste ground--unused and unoccupied spaces in cities and industrial areas--can offer opportunities for creative exploitation and sustainable development. Calling on expert architects and urban planners, it illuminates potential strategies for the transformation of metrozones in the twenty-first century.
Metropolis no.4: Metrozones
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This fourth volume of Metropolis examines how waste ground--unused and unoccupied spaces in cities and industrial areas--can offer opportunities for creative exploitation and sustainable development. Calling on expert architects and urban planners, it illuminates potential strategies for the transformation of metrozones in the twenty-first century.
Green Architecture
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What other post-industrial landscape affords the possibility of being so completely overhauled, from its very soil mix to the edifices erected upon it? In 2009, the IBA conference "Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes" addressed these and related themes. Examining former mining sites in Europe, the U.S., Chile, South Africa and China, the proceedings of this conference(...)
Post-mining landscape: Conference documentation
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What other post-industrial landscape affords the possibility of being so completely overhauled, from its very soil mix to the edifices erected upon it? In 2009, the IBA conference "Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes" addressed these and related themes. Examining former mining sites in Europe, the U.S., Chile, South Africa and China, the proceedings of this conference demonstrate the fertile opportunities of these landscapes.
Landscape Theory
Rob Voerman: Aftermath
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Over the last decade, Dutch artist Rob Voerman has crafted architectural fictions, in which the romanticism of DIY culture opposes the political rhetoric of threat and fear. Working with basic materials such as cardboard, salvaged wood and found objects, Voerman draws on a variety of histories ranging from utopian hippy communities to remote terrorist hideouts to Art-Deco glasswork.
Rob Voerman: Aftermath
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Over the last decade, Dutch artist Rob Voerman has crafted architectural fictions, in which the romanticism of DIY culture opposes the political rhetoric of threat and fear. Working with basic materials such as cardboard, salvaged wood and found objects, Voerman draws on a variety of histories ranging from utopian hippy communities to remote terrorist hideouts to Art-Deco glasswork.