Beatriz Colomina Bücher

Kommunikation -- Mobilität -- Produktion -- Handel -- Kapital -- Kontrolle -- Globalisierung / Regionalismus -- Kulturtransfer -- Globale Trends

Katalog výstavy v Galerii Jaroslava Fragnera, 5. srpna - 25. září 2016

In a supportive article covering the 4th Berlin Biennial, critic Steven Henry Madoff took a moment to question what many have termed "Biennial Fever," writing, "Are [biennials] here to capture trends or to advance artists' voices in a larger social dialogue? Do they promote international understanding or local interests? Are they bully pulpits for curators turned ideologues, or are they simply there to tap the art market's stopwatch till the next survey of hot new things draws the attention of an ever expanding universe of collectors?" For the 2008 edition of this always-provocative international fair, Curators Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic brought together primarily newly commissioned work by 50 emerging and established international artists for a round-the-clock exhibition that included 63 nightly events. This expansive volume documents it all, and contains contributions by writers, critics and artists including Beatriz Colomina, Bettina Viesmann, Cameron Jamie, Gabriel Kuri, Babette Mangolte, Ahmet Ögüt and Katerina Seda.

Presents the largest urban art project in Europe - the Tres aguas in Toledo, Spain

The question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design and rethink the philosophy of design in a multi-dimensional exploration from the very first tools and ornaments to the constant buzz of social media. The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach to outside space but also reach deep into our bodies and brains. Even the planet itself has been completely encrusted by design as a geological layer. There is no longer an outside to the world of design. Colomina's and Wigley's field notes offer an archaeology of the way design has gone viral and is now bigger than the world. They range across the last few hundred thousand years and the last few seconds to scrutinize the uniquely plastic relation between brain and artifact. A vivid portrait emerges. Design is what makes the human. It becomes the way humans ask questions and thereby continuously redesign themselves.

This kaleidoscopic book documents the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley in the words of the curators and all the participants, starting with the polemical Biennial Manifesto that launched the project. A remarkable galaxy of designers, architects, artists, historians, theorists, film makers, archaeologists, choreographers, scientists, labs, institutes, and NGOs challenge the self-image of our species. Are We Human? is an urgent question when design has gone viral, infusing every dimension of human and non-human life. Design now encrusts the whole Earth as a living geological layer going deep into the ground, into outer space, bodies, brains, and genes. This book dramatically rethinks design in the face of a planet and a species in unprecedented crisis rebooting the conversation on design

Illuminates the hidden relationship between building and body

"This book explores what art can tell us about "the self," or the sense of interiority that each of us, as separate individuals, experience. Today the "self" is often dismissed because it seems to ignore the ways in which we are all defined by structures and categories of identity (from capitalism and the family to constructs of gender and race). Yet, as Rachel Haidu observes, our feelings that we are singular and individuated--regardless of the structures we belong to--can be intensified, deepened, and negotiated by art. Artworks not only elicit feelings in the viewer that she is profoundly herself, but some even examine how interior lives come to feel private and unique. Haidu investigates this sense of interiority through the work of six contemporary artists who consciously want to provoke the experience in viewers: painters Philip Guston and Amy Sillman; film/media artists James Coleman and Steve McQueen; and contemporary dancers/choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Yvonne Rainer"-- Provided by publisher

Cinema Olanda, ein Projekt der Künstlerin Wendelien van Oldenborgh und der Kuratorin Lucy Cotter stellt den niederländischen Beitrag auf der 57sten Biennale von Venedig 2017 dar. Die Ausstellung zeigt drei neue filmische Werke, die in einer eigens für Gerrit Rietvelds Pavillon entworfenen Installation mit der Architektur in Beziehung treten. Darin arbeitet Cinema Olanda die Bruchkanten heraus, die sich in dem Bild der Niederlande zeigen – gespalten zwischen ihrer Vorreiterrolle als transparente Nation und den sich rasant verändernden sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Realitäten. Das am Film orientierte Vorgehen dient van Oldenborgh als Produktionsmethode: Während der Live-Aufnahmen werden die Skripte gemeinsam erarbeitet. Neben eindrücklichem Bildmaterial enthält diese Publikation Essays von Fachautoren aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen. So wird die Beschäftigung von Cinema Olanda mit Kunst, Film und Architektur ausgeweitet und zu Fragen von sozialem Handeln und Vorstellungswelten in Beziehung gesetzt. Ausstellung: Biennale di Venezia, Niederländischer Pavillon 13.5.–26.11.2017