"Extra Bodies", the new theoretical volume in the Migros Museum series, is based on the PhD research of Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst’s curator Raphael Gygax, and accompanies the related exhibition (November 2017–February 2018). Both investigate an artistic phenomenon that started in the 1990s in the field of the performing arts, and is characterized by artists using “other bodies” in their practices and making their “vitality” a central part of their artworks. One of the main strategies of this approach is using the specific social roles of these other bodies, thus making the societal dimension a core element of the work—these other bodies are also described as “extras.” This volume contextualizes the appearance of these other bodies in the broader context of the 1990s, especially in relation to Relational Aesthetics and its theoretical devices. The publication also analyzes the transition from the use of a “bio-political” body to a “psycho-political” body, as seen over the last 30 years.
Through successive case studies—among others, the artistic strategies of Ai Weiwei, Vanessa Beecroft, L.A. Raeven, Christoph Schlingensief, Santiago Sierra, Teresa Margolles, and Artur Zmijewski—the author develops a typology of the “extra body” and explores its different contexts and references. This art historical research is also linked to an investigation of the relationship between the performing body and its assimilation into the art market and the global art system.
The Migros Museum exhibition sections, which shed light on this phenomenon and its historical predecessors from the 1960s to the present day, are represented in the book by short texts and an extensive image section. Additional insights are given by interviews with artists, gallerists, and participants, who take on the role of an “extra body.”
Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
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Since the turn of the millennium, Zurich has been undergoing a radical urban transformation: former industrial areas have been transformed into residential neighborhoods in order to accommodate the growing population. In 2006 Zurich's City Council founded a strategic committee to establish a public art program related to the city's development. The Arbeitsgruppe für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (Working Group for Public Art) has established many projects and initiatives and, among others, in 2011 it launched a research project to discuss the different forms that public art can take. With the support of the Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (CT), a unique collaborative think tank drawn from the Lucerne School of Art Design, the Zurich University of the Arts, the City of Zurich, the City of Lucerne, and Heller Enterprise, as well as young Swiss artists, explored various ideas.
This volume offers support to communal public art projects by proposing guidelines for good practice, and functions as a manual on how to plan, launch, finance, realize, document, and evaluate a project. Reference examples document the research process and illustrate artists' proposals: projects such as Superkilen, Ecobox, Quatschmobil, and The Center for Urban Pedagogy, located in Zurich and Lucerne, as well as abroad, are presented in detail to give insight in the circumstances, the specific features of the public space in which the project took place, which groups were addressed and involved, whether the project succeeded, and the public's feedback. The publication offers a global catalogue of public art projects realized in the recent years, as well as an extensive bibliography on this major area of contemporary urban planning.
This book is the fourth volume of a series started in 2011, and is published with the City of Zurich (AG KiöR), Heller Enterprises, Institut für Gegenwartskunst (ZHdK), and with the City of Lucerne, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst.
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All of the photographs in this book were taken between 2007 and 2011 from the artist's car, during his job-related journeys between Hamburg and Leipzig. They show a company sign, "Kraft," on the A7 freeway near Bad Fallingbostel. * * Peter Piller (*1968) studied German language and literature and trained as a visual artist. His approach to photography, based largely on an enormous amount of collected and archived photographs, is striking and unique. * * The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller.
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Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) is regarded as one of the most significant Polish artists of the 20th century. He was among those artists who proclaimed and practiced a concept of art, transgressing all its boundaries. Alongside his work as a visual artist he was also a theater reformer influenced by the avant-garde. Kantor attained world renown in the 1970s with the traveling theater group Cricot 2, which he established in the mid-1950s. The artist was invited to Documenta 2 (1959 ) and 6 (1977). Today Kantor is often mentioned as a source of inspiration by artists interested in his performative approach to contemporary art. * * This publication offers a comprehensive overview of Kantor's versatility—from his theater productions and actions to his painterly and sculptural works. It also includes the "happening photography" of Eustachy Kossakowski (1925–2001)—who documented Kantor's artistic output for decades—that has rarely been published. * * Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
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“Art and the City – The Festival for Public Art” brought together 43 artists from all over the world to the metropolitan area of Zurich. Sculptures, performances, artistic field research, and interventions were presented to an audience in an urban context. The dialogue initiated by this project fascinated, polarized, and spawned discussions—in newspapers, on the Internet, and on the streets. In order to further expand this discussion, the study group Public Art (KiöR AG) organized a symposium with recognized voices from diverse fields to debate questions such as: What could be the role of art in city development? How do city marketing and art relate to each other? Why do we need unused spaces and a participatory platform for discussing the use of public spaces? And finally, What is the benefit for a city of large exhibitions such as “Art and the City?”
The present volume documents the symposium and allows for a provisional assessment. With contributions by Gabriela Christen, Bice Curiger, Christoph Doswald, Hedwig Fijen, Ruth Genner, Victor Gisler, Peter Haerle, Eva Pfannes & Sylvain Hartenberg – Ooze Architects, Marjetica Potrc, Tim Rieniets, Christoph Schenker, Anna Schindler, Juri Steiner, Philip Ursprung, Rein Wolfs.
Published with the City of Zurich.
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100 families from 100 different nations give an account of their lives in the Ruhr region (Ruhrpott) of Germany, outlining their perspectives for a new era. The personal experiences and stories of these immigrants offer us a new perception of the area and its cultural and industrial transformations. The intimate insights into different lives, individual living conditions, and the manifold motivations to live in a city in this region help draw a new map of western German, the "New Pott," which has become a new home for millions of people. * * For this rather original artistic project, Düsseldorf artist Mischa Kuball (*1959) interviewed 100 immigrants from different generations over more than a year. The intensity of these encounters is reflected in the publication's collection of interviews, portraits, and private snapshots of the interlocutors. The analytical comments by cultural scientist Harald Welzer address the social and political questions of social integration and the future of a multinational population in Germany, and dispel the common clichés about the Ruhrpott region. * * The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller and comes with a 16-pages English inlay. * *
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First monograph dedicated to the French artist living in Geneva (*1974). Initially associated with Jean-Michel Wicker, over the years Vidya Gastaldon has developed a universe immersed in a hippie and psychedelic aesthetic, in New Age, and in minimalist abstraction, as well as devalued practices such as sewing or DIY. * * Through her new series of drawings, her films, and her sculptures in wool and other “craft” materials, the artist deploys an aesthetic of "states" rather than of formal or theoretical references, where notions of pleasure and experience find a new force. * * Published with the Kunstmuseum Thun, the Swiss Institute, New York, and the Mamco Geneva. * * French edition (ISBN 978-2-940271-74-0) only available by les presses du réel. Limited stock.
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Like many artists, Peter Piller (*1968, Germany) had to find a boring part-time job in an office to support his work and guarantee some regular income. During his working hours, like many other employees, he passed his time by dreaming or discussing minor events in the company. Except that he did this on paper, in drawings. The book gathers together a selection of these office drawings, which portray, with a sense of absurd humor, the everyday life of an office and the nature of these jobs. * * The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller.
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Martin Boyce (*1967 in Glasgow, lives and works in Glasgow and Berlin) is one of the most original of the Scottish artists who came to international prominence during the 1990s. He works at the interface of design, architecture, and the social environment. * * When he disturbs the substance of the works of Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe, and Charles and Ray Eames, or when he builds his "fragile landscapes," he underlines the continuity between style, human habitat, and life. Distilling elements of familiar, anonymous urban environments, often appropriating iconic visual languages of classic modernist design, cinema, and architecture, Boyce weaves a complex web of associations in a process of describing and abstracting cultural and social spaces. The disquietening balance of opposites, of intimacy and distance, interior and exterior, beauty and tension within his installations, seems to amplify the unlocatable anxiety, paranoia, and dysfunction in contemporary cities at the same time as it encourages an almost nostalgic reverie. * * Published with Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and CAC, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva. * * French edition (ISBN 978-3-03764-041-8) only available by les presses du réel. Limited stock. *
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A comprehensive monograph on the Swiss artist whose work has recently become known on the international scene. Author of numerous performances, printed projects, and self-organized events in the 1980s up to the mid-1990s, Gygi has always claimed a social and political dimension to his work. The architectural structures or the public systems that he reproduces (screens, terraces, tents, stands, etc.) reveal the authoritative aspects and the control systems of our society. The publication brings together all elements of the artist’s production, and is accompanied by several essays. * * The book is realized in collaboration with the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Mamco), in Geneva; the Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar; the Kunstverein St.Gallen Kunstmuseum; and the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach. * * The French edition includes a text by Jean-Charles Massera and an interview with the artist by Christophe Cherix. * * The English edition includes texts by Irene Hofmann, Jean-Charles Massera, and John Miller. * * The German edition includes Massera's essay and two texts by Andreas Baur and Konrad Bitterli.
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This publication brings together the large-size graphite drawings of the last decade by painter and graphic artist Thomas Müllenbach. From his engagement with popular culture and ongoing dialogue with the history of art, the artist has developed a language of directness and reduction by drawing life-size different subjects from reality. From everyday life in domestic kitchens to the navigation instruments in the cockpit of an MD 11, via the equipment in a hospital operating-room and the site of the nuclear catastrophe at Tschernobyl, the artist questions our relationship with technology. * * Born 1949 in Koblenz, Germany, Müllenbach has lived and worked in Zurich since 1972, where he is also a professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst. * * Published with the Kunsthaus Zürich.
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Questions of changing values and shifting identities in the wake of globalization play an important role for the current generation of young artists. The group exhibition "Shifting Identities—(Swiss) Art Now" is dedicated to this theme and shows a total of 68 artists who address it in very different ways. It includes a mixture of Swiss and international artists—even though, here too, the boundaries are increasingly blurred. This is because many so-called Swiss artists are not really native Swiss at all, and conversely, several Swiss artists have moved abroad. * * The exhibition "Shifting Identities" takes the (art) world's increasing flexibility of living and working conditions into account, and presents artists that are addressing changes in the wake of globalization on a cultural, political, economic, and personal level. In keeping with its subject, the exhibition is deliberately extended beyond the institutional bounds and takes in venues with key significance for our contemporary society such as Zurich Airport, a key site for our globalized world and Zurich's City Centre with its banking district. * * Published with the Kunsthaus Zürich. * * Awarded in the competition "The most beautiful Swiss books 2008."
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Based on observations of primates in a zoo and accompanied by an expert's text, these drawings by Claudia and Julia Müller document animals' behavior. Through the notions of play, manipulation of objects, and "performance," this artists' book, designed by Christoph Keller, intertwines drawings, texts, and photographs in an allegorical reading of monkeys' activities as a somewhat art-related form. * * Published with the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen beim Zeppelin Museum. * * The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller. *
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A handbook for museums
The term "art handling" describes aspects of the (professional) art
scene that often remain invisible: installation and de-installation,
technical and conservation-related documentation, storage, transport,
and legal issues. Discussions around materiality reveal that
infrastructure and logistics are of constitutive significance to the
production and presentation of artworks. Over the course of the
professionalization of the global art scene, the requirements relating to
installation-based, ephemeral, and performative artworks, and how
these are handled by the institutions, have continually become stricter,
and issues of documentation have accordingly become more complex. On
the one hand, new work concepts or works are changing the
requirements for the "infrastructure" of museums. On the other hand,
such "infrastructures" that now exist in many places are also directly
stimulating the emergence of certain art forms.
With contributions by Monika Domman, Peter Schneemann, Tobias Vogt,
Beat Wyss, and others. The reader "Art Handling" was initiated as a
result of the symposium of the same name held at the Migros Museum
für Gegenwartskunst in 2014, and covers central aspects of this topic
in essays and in a round-table discussion.
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Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst, Lucerne.
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Known for their collaborative projects exploring the relations between art and economic processes, Plamen Dejanoff and Swetlana Heger made their appearance on the European scene in the mid 1990s. For several years since then, Dejanoff has developed his own complex projects, spaced out over several years: thus, from 2001 to 2003, "Collective Wishdream of Upper Class Possibilities" transformed his studio-apartment in Berlin into a multi-cultural space which has been used by a gallery, the Palais de Tokyo, and invited artists. * * The exhibition at MUMOK in Vienna marks the launch of the "Planets of Comparison," a construction project of different buildings (museum, bookshop, studio, et.c) in Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria, the town from which the artist comes, in close collaboration with architects, designers, and artists. * * Published with the MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. * * * * * *
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What do artists, curators, critics, gallery owners, collectors and exhibitions' visitors think about contemporary art, and what do they make of the dramatic changes in this field? The intellectualization of the 1990s was followed by the economization of the “decade of greed.” Under these circumstances how do the perspectives of the producers differ from the viewpoints of those who decide as gatekeepers—curators, critics, gallery owners, collectors—about success and failure in this field, and from those of “art lovers” who primarily enjoy looking at the works exhibited? * * In this volume edited by Heike Munder and Ulf Wuggenig, with contributions from the cultural experts and social scientists Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, Valérie Knoll, Sophia Prinz, and Christian Tarnai, the field of art is considered from an objectifying stance. The book is based on interviews with some 800 visitors to contemporary art exhibitions in Zurich, a center of the art market, as well as earlier surveys carried out in Vienna, Hamburg, and Paris in the 1990s. * * Heike Munder is the Director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich. Ulf Wuggenig works as a sociologist at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. * * Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
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Born in 1976, the Belgian artist Ante Timmermans, based in Ghent and Zurich, is one of the most active figures of the contemporary drawing scene. Using very simple techniques for his drawings, which are almost entirely black and white, and obsolete technology in his installations (record players, overhead projectors, etc.), he serves as an accurate eyewitness of our modern times. He notably focuses on issues surrounding the nature/culture debate, and the representation of the modern city as a ghost city, a landscape of numerous skyscrapers, a no-man's land. Both poetically ironic and disenchanted, his work is also a meditation on the pregnancy of language and words in our lives. * * Published on the occasion of his exhibitions at Musée Jenish, Vevey, and Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, this book is the first monograph on Ante Timmermans' work. It brings together emblematic drawings and installations from each series made by the artist since the beginning of the 2000s, as well as an essay by Julie Enckell Julliard, Contemporary and Modern Art Curator at Musée Vevey, and an interview with the Kunstmuseum St-Gallen curator Konrad Bitterli. *
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Markus Uhr (*1974) is driven to that which goes unnoticed, to the forsaken, self-descriptive instant. He is in search of "non-moments" or, as he puts it, "the white spots that hold the world together." Always carrying his camera with him, he finds images in his immediate environment which depict the gaps in our everyday lives. * * In this publication, the artist uncovers a melancholy that Freud defined as "a sadness that cannot be specified and is not directed at anything," through his collages, photographs, and drawings. From the arrangement of the images, the configurations of series and sequences, varied possible readings emerge. * * In 2007 Markus Uhr won the Guggenheim Award as well as the Swiss Art Award. * * Published with the Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich. *
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The "windows of the heart and other abysses" (Michael Hübl) are the mysterious areas the work of the young German artist Anna Lea Hucht penetrates into, in richly detailed, meticulously elaborated, sometimes large-format drawings. A magical world lights up; in its spaces and times an individual way of observing the world, full of references, becomes comprehensible, though it never leads to mystification for its own sake. What holds the scenes and moods together is mastery of the delicate graphic and watercolor technique. Anna Lea Hucht succeeds in hotwiring an essentially romantic experience of the world to the present, without nostalgia or embarrassment. * * This artist's book which is being published to coincide with the award of the Horst-Janssen Prize to Anna Lea Hucht has been produced in close collaboration between the artist and the publisher, and makes Anna Lea Hucht's work more widely accessible for the first time. The graphic works are accompanied and complemented by fragments of text from Dietmar Dath's book "Die Abschaffung der Arten" ("The Abolition of Species"). * * Published in the Christoph Keller Editions series. *
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This publication brings together different contributions by professionals from various areas of exhibition production. The chief aim is to explore exhibition display, which is to be understood here not merely as "surface" and impact design, but as part of a media compound in which all elements contribute consciously or unconsciously to the production of meaning. Today, exhibitions are considered a cultural practice which conveys values and norms and thus, implicitly, ideological concepts. Taking the display into consideration in a critical "reading" of exhibitions helps to shed light on relationships previously overlooked —between objects and space, text and image, the route through the exhibition and the public, information and emotional impact, stimulus satiation and participation, staging and resistant reception, communication media and information, art and commodity, ennoblement and contextualization. With texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Elena Filipovic, Roswitha Muttenthaler, Dorothee Richter, Stefan Römer, Simone Schardt, Wolf Schmelter, Annette Schindler, Yvonne Volkart, and Axel John Wieder.
Published with Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, MAS Curating, ICS, ZHDK, and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
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Autor:
Elena Filipovic,
Jennifer John,
Roswitha Muttenthaler,
Dorothee Richter,
Stefan Römer,
Sigrid Schade,
Simone Schardt,
Annette Schindler,
Wolf Schmelter,
Yvonne Volkart,
Beatrice von Bismarck,
Axel John Wieder
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