Movements of Air | Georges Didi-Huberman, Florian Dombois, Laurent Mannoni et al. (eds.)
CHF 45.00
The Photographs from Étienne-Jules Marey’s Wind Tunnels
The book «Movements of Air» reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey, that he took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke, and complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni.
Laurent Mannoni accurately reflects Marey’s experimental approach. As the founder of the «graphic method,» Marey is also the developer of an aerodynamic wind tunnel. His experiments› photographs in fluid motion introduce us to a whole world of movements, turbulences and fluids. The resulting images influenced generations of scientists and artists alike.
Georges Didi-Huberman expands on the philosophical debates surrounding these aesthetically and technically instructive images. He makes Bergson the main interlocutor and even the secret commentator of the scientist’s experiments. Even though the scientist’s main interest was graphic information, Huberman shows us how the flow of all things draws the ingenious experimenter to a photographic practice that creates drags, streaks, expansions, and visual dances.
Marey’s wind tunnel photographs were therefore themselves causes of turbulence in the history of images. The two artists Florian Dombois and Christoph Oeschger explore the «graphical» vortices of the last 120 years and provide at the end of the book a collage from historical and contemporary material interlaced with their own image making in Dombois’s wind tunnel at the Zurich University of the Arts.
The book was published originally in French on the occasion of the exhibition «Mouvements de l’air» at the Musee d’Orsay. The texts are now available for the first time as an English translation.
Too Big to Scale. On Scaling Space, Number, Time and Energy | Florain Dombois, Julie Harboe (eds.)
CHF 29.00
The result of a 2015 symposium at Zurich University of the Arts, Too Big To Scale brings together essays by a diverse interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, engineers, and scholars who explore the significance of scale within their respective disciplines. The contributions take as their point of departure the camera, which combines three pathways for scaling—film speed, lens size and speed, and frame rates for fast and slow motion. The possibility of copying images adds a fourth variable, replication. The camera, as the contributors show, does not merely depict our world but can also be seen as actively producing our thoughts and imagination.
208 pages, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017
ISBN 978-3-85881-793-8
Im Tun. Eine Geschichte der Künstler*innen 2018-1993 | Florian Dombois, Valérie Knoll (Hg.)
CHF 39.00
Die Kunsthalle Bern, die «Mutter aller Kunsthallen», wurde 1918 von Berner Künstler*innen gegründet. Hundert Jahre später nehmen wiederum 25 Künstler*innen mit Bern-Bezug die Arbeit der Kunsthalle der letzten 25 Jahre in den Blick. Es entsteht vor unseren Augen ein Geschichtspanorama, in dem die Künstler*innen eine historische Bewertung vornehmen und uns die Geschichte der Kunstproduktion aus der Perspektive der Produzierenden.
416 Seiten, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018
ISBN 978-3-85881-594-1
I lost time and space. Where am I? Erzählen von chronischen Schmerzen | Tabea Rothfuchs
Eine künstlerische Untersuchung zu chronischen Schmerzen
Was passiert mit der inneren und äusseren Welt eines Menschen, wenn kein medizinisches Verfahren die Ursache des erlebten Schmerzes (mehr) zu entziffern vermag? Wenn der Schmerz zum eigenständigen Krankheitsbild Chronischer Schmerz geworden ist?
137 Seiten, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, 2021
ISBN 978-3-9524741-9-8
