Entangled Fields of Research in the Arts: Institute for Contemporary Art Research 2001-2022
Inventory and Hinge provides an overview of the research projects performed over the last two decades at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It is an inventory because it presents all the projects realized during this period with many figures and illustrations. It is a hinge because links and QR codes grant access to nearly all publications and websites that were created by the individual projects.
Artistic work interconnects multiple competencies and areas of knowledge, ways of life and working, and the IFCAR research projects are thus organized in correspondence with this transgressive gesture, which becomes manifest here as interdisciplinary, networked knowledge production. The cultivation of these complexities has been a mission of the IFCAR since its inception.
Throughout these pioneering years the IFCAR has always seen its task in the promotion of research competency in the fine arts, and in providing support for the conception and execution of concrete projects. Although art as research has a long tradition outside of institutions, this task meant nothing less than introducing a new research discipline into the context of knowledge and establishing a new genre in the context of art. Each of the projects presented in this book involves research through the process of creation—but they often also conduct a metadiscourse on artistic research itself.
ZHdK: Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR)
Inventory and Hinge | Christoph Schenker (ed.) [E-Book PDF]
Entangled Fields of Research in the Arts: Institute for Contemporary Art Research 2001-2022
Inventory and Hinge provides an overview of the research projects performed over the last two decades at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It is an inventory because it presents all the projects realized during this period with many figures and illustrations. It is a hinge because links and QR codes grant access to nearly all publications and websites that were created by the individual projects.
Deep Water | Jürgen Krusche, Siu King Chung (eds.)
Public Spaces in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
In strongly globalized cities there are fast transformation processes on the move, reinforced by the neo-liberal policies and the resulting economic, social, urban and cultural policy strategies. From a research perspective, a main question is how to capture, describe and interpret such developments taking place at a fast pace.
Researchers and artsts from Hong Kong and Zurich worked together in a small area of Sham Shui Po, one of the poorest and still most traditional Districts of Hong Kong, to investigate its public spaces according to topics of urban transformation and gentrification.
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit | Christoph Schenker, Michael Hiltbrunner (Hg.)
CHF 48.00
Kritische Praxis der Kunst im Stadtraum Zürich
Die im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts “Kunst Öffentlichkeit Zürich” entstandene Publikation stellt die Ergebnisse der dreijährigen Studie sowie aktuelle Postitionen zur theoretischen Diskussion um Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und ihre Möglichkeiten vor. Neben der Analyse der städtebaulichen, wirtschafts- und kulturgeschichtlichen Situation Zürichs leistet die Studie eine Darstellung lokaler Kunstbeispiele und aktueller Ziele der Stadt sowie Interviews enthält sie praktische Handlungsgrundlagen wie das inzwischen von der Stadt genehmigte Leitbild zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und neue Organisationsstrukturen.
Serge Stauffer – Kunst als Forschung | Michael Hiltbrunner, Helmhaus Zürich (Hg.)
CHF 49.00
Essays, Gespräche, Übersetzungen, Studien
Dieses Buch leistet die erste Aufarbeitung von Werk und Nachlass des bedeutenden Schweizer Künstlers, Kunstvermittlers und Duchamp-Spezialisten Serge Stauffer (1929-1989). Stauffer, der gleichzeitig als Theoretiker, Performer, Autor, Übersetzer und Archivar amtete, war ein visionärer Akteur. Sein Werk zeugt von Humor und Ernsthaftigkeit, von Genauigkeit und Grenzen sprengendem Weitblick. Dazu stand er mit Marcel Duchamp in Kontakt, über den er auch forschte und mehrfach publizierte, und er pflegte mit André Thomkins eine lebenslange Freundschaft.