Raumlaborberlin: Polylemma
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"No Trust, No City!" was the longtime credo on their website; "Some Ideas for Better Cities" was their first joint lecture series; and Acting in Public was their first book. For over than twenty years, the architecture collective raumlaborberlin has been searching for new spaces of encounter and for ways of achieving cooperative urban development. Together with experts(...)
Raumlaborberlin: Polylemma
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"No Trust, No City!" was the longtime credo on their website; "Some Ideas for Better Cities" was their first joint lecture series; and Acting in Public was their first book. For over than twenty years, the architecture collective raumlaborberlin has been searching for new spaces of encounter and for ways of achieving cooperative urban development. Together with experts from various disciplines, they experiment with new forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. "Polylemma" explores the work of the collective from diverse perspectives. Its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice.
Architecture Monographs
Inter art actuel 145
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"Inter art actuel 145" s’intéresse à la dimension matérielle, mais aussi sociopolitique, de notre rapport au monde, notamment à travers les pratiques de détournement de l’usage prescrit des choses, des espaces ou des idées. Ce dossier réunira des contributions concernant des postures ou des actions, à charge artistique ou non, qui peuvent parfois paraître inconsidérées,(...)
Inter art actuel 145
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"Inter art actuel 145" s’intéresse à la dimension matérielle, mais aussi sociopolitique, de notre rapport au monde, notamment à travers les pratiques de détournement de l’usage prescrit des choses, des espaces ou des idées. Ce dossier réunira des contributions concernant des postures ou des actions, à charge artistique ou non, qui peuvent parfois paraître inconsidérées, irraisonnables, voire absurdes, ou indisciplinées, en ce qu’elles ne répondent pas aux critères de notre société, qui prône l’investissement comme mode de vie et la croissance capitalisée comme fin. Une occasion de penser et d’illustrer des pratiques – artistiques, subversives, communautaires, du quotidien, sociales ou ouvertement politiques – qui en manifestant la vie par l’usage participent à inventer et à transformer le monde, tel qu’il nous est accessible.
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Farah Khelil: Effet de serre
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« Effet de serre » est un projet de recherche (2012), d'exposition (2021) et de publication (2022), dans lequel l'artiste Farah Khelil s'est engagée à rénover la serre municipale de la ville de Tunis au Parc du Belvédère avec une bourse d'aide à la production artistique. Son approche interroge la définition de l'objet d'art et de l'exposition ainsi que la place de(...)
Farah Khelil: Effet de serre
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« Effet de serre » est un projet de recherche (2012), d'exposition (2021) et de publication (2022), dans lequel l'artiste Farah Khelil s'est engagée à rénover la serre municipale de la ville de Tunis au Parc du Belvédère avec une bourse d'aide à la production artistique. Son approche interroge la définition de l'objet d'art et de l'exposition ainsi que la place de l'artiste dans les institutions culturelles. Ainsi, l'artiste s'émancipe des exigences du marché en orientant une bourse d'aide à la production artistique vers une actions d'intérêt général et de bien commun. Puis, la serre accueille une installation immersive composée d'éléments polymorphes et hétérogènes qui retracent l'histoire architecturale du Palmarium de Tunis dans une dialectique entre eucalyptus et palmier, tradition et modernité postcoloniale.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors,(...)
Inflamed invisible: collected writings on art and sound, 1976-2018
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In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new territory: stretched time, wilderness, video monitors, singing sculptures, weather, meditations, vibration and the interior resonance of objects, interspecies communications, instructional texts, silent actions, and performance art. This publications collects more than four decades of David Toop's essays, reviews, interviews, and experimental texts, drawing us into the company of artists and their concerns, not forgetting the quieter, unsung voices. The volume is an exploration of strata of sound that are the crossing points of sensory, intellectual, and philosophical preoccupations.
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Russian Dada 1914-1924
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This is the first book to approach Russian avant-garde art from the perspective of the anti-art canons associated with the international Dada movement. The works described and documented in Russian Dada were produced at the height of Dada's flourishing, between World War I and the death of Vladimir Lenin—who, incidentally, was a frequent visitor to Cabaret Voltaire in(...)
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Russian Dada 1914-1924
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This is the first book to approach Russian avant-garde art from the perspective of the anti-art canons associated with the international Dada movement. The works described and documented in Russian Dada were produced at the height of Dada's flourishing, between World War I and the death of Vladimir Lenin—who, incidentally, was a frequent visitor to Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, the founding site of Dada. Like the Dadaists, the Russian avant-gardists whose works appear in this volume strove for internationalism, fused the verbal and visual, and engaged in eccentric practices and pacifist actions, including outrageous performances and anti-war campaigns. ''Russian Dada'', which accompanies a major exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, includes 250 images and essays by leading art historians.
Lee Lozano: language pieces
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In the late 1960s, Lee Lozano (1930–99) conceived of and executed a series of "language pieces," written in the pages of her notebooks, consisting of rules and parameters for the actions that would constitute a piece. From offering money to houseguests to smoking as much marijuana as possible, Lozano boldly tested social norms, culminating in two of her most famous works:(...)
Lee Lozano: language pieces
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In the late 1960s, Lee Lozano (1930–99) conceived of and executed a series of "language pieces," written in the pages of her notebooks, consisting of rules and parameters for the actions that would constitute a piece. From offering money to houseguests to smoking as much marijuana as possible, Lozano boldly tested social norms, culminating in two of her most famous works: ''General Strike Piece'' (1969), which saw her retreating from the art world completely, and ''Decide to Boycott Women'' (1971), in which she ceased engaging with all members of her own gender. ''Lee Lozano: Language Pieces'' presents 46 of these pieces, reproducing them at full scale. Nearly five decades later, these radical manifestations of 1960s and '70s conceptualism continue to exert their political and artistic influence.
Contemporary Art Monographs
The beaver manifesto
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Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion. Our history often celebrates our integration of environment into(...)
The beaver manifesto
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Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion. Our history often celebrates our integration of environment into our identity, but our actions often reveal an exploitation of environment and celebration of its subjugation. Why the conflict with the beaver? It is one of the few species that refuses to play by our rules and continues to modify environments to meet its own needs and the betterment of so many other species, while at the same time showing humans that complete dominion over nature is not necessarily achievable.
Architecture in Canada
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xviii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
New York : Praeger, ©1972.
A documentary history of conservation in America / edited by Robert McHenry with Charles Van Doren ; introduction by Lorus and Margery Milne.
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xx, 299 pages : frontispiece, plates, folded diagram ; 23 cm
New York and London : Harper & Brothers, 1926., ©1926
Printing ink : a history with a treatise on modern methods of manufacture and use / by Frank B. Wiborg.
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New York and London : Harper & Brothers, 1926., ©1926
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xvii, 267, [1] pages : frontispiece, 46 plates on 28 leaves ; 27 cm
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1923.
Origin of Christian church art : new facts and principles of research / by Josef Strzygowski; eight lectures delivered for the Olaus-Petri Foundation at Upsala, to which is added a chapter on Christian art in Britain; translated from the German by O.M. Dalton, M.A., and H.J. Braunholtz, M.A.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1923.