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.
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.)
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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.
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.
Wir muten Ihnen alles zu. Peter Trachsel und die Hasena | Michael Hiltbrunner (Hg.)
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Peter Trachsel (1949–2013) war Mitte der 1970er-Jahre als Performancekünstler aktiv und am Ausbau der F+F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung beteiligt. Mit seinem Verein Hasena – Institut für (den) fliessenden Kunstverkehr realisierte er unterschiedliche Ausstellungs- und Auftrittsformate. Diese Monografie arbeitet zum ersten Mal das Schaffen des aussergewöhnlichen Künstlers auf und leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Dokumentation der Schweizer Performancekunst. Die Essays setzen sich mit Trachsels Medienvielfalt und seinem Interesse für partizipative Projektmodelle auseinander. Ergänzt werden sie durch Fotografien seiner Performances sowie Briefe und Zeichnungen von Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die einen Einblick in die Arbeits- und Denkweise von Trachsel und seinem Umfeld geben.
282 Seiten, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018
ISBN 978-3-85881-609-2
Kunst und Ethnografie – zwischen Kooperation und Ko-Produktion? | Ute Holfelder, Klaus Schönberger, Thomas Hengartner, Christoph Schenker (Hg.)
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Anziehung – Abstossung – Verwicklung: Epistemische und methodologische Perspektiven
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge verweisen auf die Gemengelage zwischen künstlerischer und ethnografischer Forschung, zwischen der Praxis der Feldforschung und der Kunstbetriebe, zwischen Künstler*innen, Ethnograf*innen und hybriden Akteur*innen, die heute dies und morgen etwas anderes sind. Im Fokus stehen transdisziplinäre Perspektiven, die die gegenwärtigen entgrenzten gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse methodisch und epistemisch einzuholen versuchen.
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