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.
Auf Gemeindegebiet | Ulrich Görlich, Meret Wandeler
CHF 79.00
Schlieren – Oberengadin. Fotografie zum räumlichen Wandel im Mittelland und in den Alpen seit 1945
Auf Gemeindegebiet‘ ist eine visuelle Geschichte der Raum- und Siedlungsentwicklung in der Schweiz seit 1945. Es zeigt anhand von 230 Fotografien mit ergänzenden Essays zwei Beispiele: Schlieren – eine typische Zürcher Vorortsgemeinde, die sich vom Bauerndorf zur Industriestadt entwickelte – und das Oberengadin um St.Moritz, die weltbekannte Tourismusdestination in den Bündner Alpen. (dt./engl.)
Publication practices in the art world are diverse – whether in the form of exhibiting and publishing art, writing about art, or presenting the outcomes of artistic and curatorial research and practice. It is only through publication that the results of artistic work are made accessible to an audience or participants – a performative act and, at the same time, an entry into a marketplace of money, attention or the symbolic.
Die Spekulationen über die Mehrdeutigkeit von Kunstwerken und deren Potenzial, sich in verschiedene Bedeutungshorizonte einzuweben, sind vielfältig und zahlreich. Das «Wind Tunnel Deck»-Kartenspiel nimmt diese Beobachtung ernst. Es gibt den Konzepten, Kräften, Akteur:innen, Artefakten und Happenings, die seit 2012 rund um den Wind Tunnel von Florian Dombois und seiner Forschungsgruppe an der ZHdK operieren, eine Stimme und fokussiert ihre noch offenen Potenziale.
56 Karten, art&fiction, 2022
ISBN 978-2-88964-042-3
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