Aesthetics of the Commons | Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder, Shusha Niederberger (eds.)
CHF 30.00
What do a feminist server, an art space located in a public park in North London, a ‘pirate’ library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status, and an art school that emphasizes collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art can play an important role in imagining and producing a real quite different from what is currently hegemonic; that art has the possibility to not only envision or proclaim ideas in theory, but also to realize them materially.
Aesthetics of the Commons examines a series of artistic and cultural projects—drawn from what can loosely be called the (post)digital—that take up this challenge in different ways. What unites them, however, is that they all have a ‘double character.’ They are art in the sense that they place themselves in relation to (Western) cultural and art systems, developing discursive and aesthetic positions, but, at the same time, they are ‘operational’ in that they create recursive environments and freely available resources whose uses exceed these systems. The first aspect raises questions about the kind of aesthetics that are being embodied, the second creates a relation to the larger concept of the ‘commons.’ In Aesthetics of the Commons, the commons are understood not as a fixed set of principles that need to be adhered to in order to fit a definition, but instead as a ‘thinking tool’—in other words, the book’s interest lies in what can be made visible by applying the framework of the commons as a heuristic device.
Aesthetics of the Commons | Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder, Shusha Niederberger (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
What do a feminist server, an art space located in a public park in North London, a ‘pirate’ library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status, and an art school that emphasizes collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art can play an important role in imagining and producing a real quite different from what is currently hegemonic; that art has the possibility to not only envision or proclaim ideas in theory, but also to realize them materially.
Marcel Duchamp – Die Schriften | Serge Stauffer (Hg.)
CHF 78.00
Zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichte Texte übersetzt, kommentiert und herausgegeben von Serge Stauffer. Ergänzt mit den Annotationen von Serge Stauffer, die er 1982-89 in der Erstausgabe hinterliess, einem Vorwort von Herbert Molderings und einem Nachwort von Michael Hiltbrunner.
Reprint der 1981 erschienen, vergriffenen Ausgabe. Limitierte Auflage von 1200 Exemplaren.
350 Seiten, Regenbogen Verlag, 2018
ISBN 978-3-85862-729-2
Künstlerisches Forschen in Feldern zwischen Prekarität und Kreativität
Im Rahmen des Projekts Urbane Künste Ruhr haben 2013 vier Teams der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) in Mülheim ein Labor betrieben. Mit künstlerischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Mitteln wurden verschiedene Schichten der Stadt an der Ruhr freigelegt, bearbeitet und sicht- und hörbar gemacht. Bei der Verdeutlichung der Probleme wie auch der Potenziale der Stadt Mülheim spielen sowohl Tanzbewegungen lokaler Jugendlicher mit afrikanischem Migrationshintergrund eine Rolle als auch die Diskurse über creative city und creative class. Neben visuellen und performativen Zugängen wurde der Stadt auch intensiv zugehört. Akustische Atmosphären erzählen ebenso wie die Besucher des zentral gelegenen Shoppingcenters Forum von den Veränderungen und Schwierigkeiten der Stadt und ihrer Bewohner.
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.
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