"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
"Theodor W. Adorno described artworks as “windowless monads”: closed, autonomous worlds that both contain society and turn away from it. This essential contradiction is at the core of any discussion of art that aspires to shake off the exhibition space and extend itself into the social sphere. In 2011, in conjunction with the unveiling of a new documentary artwork by Mischa Kuball, a conference was held in Germany on socially engaged art ..."
"Featuring works created by over 60 international artists who were invited by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts to devise plans for a monument for the United States of America. Freed from contextual, budgetary or practical constraints, the proposals reflect each artist's ideas about the type of monument the people of the United States currently need--or deserve. The submitted drawings, diagrams, maquettes, photo collages, wr ..."
"We must accept them like the ground we walk upon.86 But that doesn't mean that
we have ground to rely on, final ... of life and every language game remains
contingent, a sort of floating architecture erected on a foundation that is in no way
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"Abstract Resistance considers the metaphor of resistance as a political and compositional force defining the art of the past half-century. Starting with Michel Foucault's assertion that -where there is power, there is resistance, - it explores art made since World War II that has been shaped by traumatic historical events in complex ways. Rather than creating an explicit art of social protest, artists have responded to violence and uphe ..."
"Following on from the success of "Antony Gormley: Blind Light and Psycho Buildings", The Hayward has established itself as one of the world's leading venues for complex, large-scale installation art. Its 2009 summer show is another major and ambitious experimental exhibition. "Walking in My Mind" transforms the gallery's unique spaces into a 'giant brain', bringing together large-scale installations by ten international artists, that in ..."
ArtReview The Annual by ThomasHirschhorn, Mark Rappolt Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2007 by Artreview ISBN-13: 978-0-9556294-0-2, ISBN: 0-9556294-0-3
"For the first ArtReview annual collector's edition, internationally renowned artist Thomas Hirschhorn has created an exclusive 96-page artwork across the entire publication."
""Heart of Darkness" centers on three large-scale installations by artists Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Thomas Hirschhorn. Working with fairy tales, science fiction and sensational imagery, these artists invite us to enter an uncanny world of their own creation, where darkness is not just a representation of chaos, madness and dystopia, but an artistic strategy in the search for clarity and empathy within the insurmountable nihilism ..."
Material Public Works - the Bridge 2000 (Warm Seas) by ThomasHirschhorn, Whitechapel Art Gallery Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2001 by Book Works ISBN-13: 978-1-870699-55-6, ISBN: 1-870699-55-6
"Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.Marcus Steinweg's capacity to implicate the other is beautiful, bright, precise, and logical, grounded in everyday questions, which to him are always big questions. -- from the foreword by Thomas HirschhornThe houses of philosophy need not be palaces. -- Marcus Steinweg, "House," The Terror of EvidenceThi ..."
"Presenting his most recent piece, "World Airport", as well as an entirely new installation, this book features essays by Okwui Enwezor, James Rondeau, and Hamza Walker that explore the conception and construction of these works and situate ..."
"The work of Paris-based Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn (b.1957) comprises giant, labour-intensive, room-sized collages of low-grade materials - that is to say, rubbish. Hirschhorn is among the most significant artists to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. His work has been included in the world's top exhibitions (including Documenta 11, 2003, and the 48th Venice Biennale, 1999), and he was recipient of the prestigious Prix Marce ..."
"The four displays are built according to the logic: War/War, War/Art, Art/War, and
Art/Art. Each one has a different dominant term, ... To me, as an artist, the problem
is: How can I take a position, and how can I give form to this position beyond
political, ethical, and aesthetic particularities? ... These works are inspired by the
decorative “nail and wire” craft. ... universality in opposition to (in conflict with) a
particular ..."
"Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflec ..."
"The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone s ..."
"The significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art; writings by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Hal Foster, and others, and essays on the archival practice of such artists as Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group.In the modern era, the archive -- official or personal -- has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. T ..."
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Migrantinnen: Subjektivitäten im Zeitalter von Globalisierung. Eine postkoloniale
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Ethnisierung und Vergeschlechtlichung. Opladen: Leske+Budrich 1999. 12 lbid,
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