Research Catalog

Title

Thyssen-Bornemisza art contemporary : the commissions book / edited by Daniela Zyman, Eva Ebersberger.

Publication

• Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zyman, Daniela
• Ebersberger, Eva
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation)

Description

1,334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 21 cm

Summary

"In over 1,300 pages, The Commissions Book engages in depth with more than one-hundred works of art. The publication organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations, along with close examinations of different works of art and an archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in the foundation's work, and that of TBA21-Academy, an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans, are stories of making new connections across disciplines, geographies, and different forms of expertise. Committed to the sensibilities of artists-as-researchers, TBA21 has sided with artists in imagining new ways of knowing and intervening in the societies we live in and deploying new ways of encountering the world around us. The foundation's work presents an attempt at reimagining what it means to "work together" as artists, commissioners, and public, and The Commissions Book seeks to rearticulate this praxis of intervention and reimagination as it evolved over two decades. The Commissions Book brings together visual and written material from TBA21's commissioning practice and vast history of exhibitions and programs, including artists and architects such as David Adjaye, John Akomfrah, Olafur Eliasson, Amar Kanwar, Walid Raad, Jana Winderen, and--most recently--Joan Jonas. The book also presents new works and commissions by Cecilia Bengolea, Claudia Comte, SUPERFLEX, and Territorial Agency, among many others. It also includes contributions by curator Natasha Ginwala and transdisciplinary feminist thinkers Astrida Neimanis and Eva Hayward, whose essays transcend individual artistic positions and ask questions that lie at the core of TBA21's program, interrogating institutional boundaries and connecting with the complexities and urgencies of the age of the Anthropocene. The book's innovative design was conceived by iconic book designer, Irma Boom. A selection of smell molecules from trees, forests, and earth are embedded into print sheets made of robust natural fibers, which are covering and bookending the publication. The smell was recorded, replicated, and recombined by artist Sissel Tolaas as a special commission for the book. Honoring TBA21's commitment to the environment, the book is made from sustainable materials, using 100 percent recycled paper"--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• 2000-2099
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation)
• Art > Austria > Vienna
• Art, Modern > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Mission & Commission -- Who Are We? : Identity And Difference, Communality And Separation -- Amar Kanwar -- Kutluǧ Ataman -- Jonathas De Andrade -- Želimir Žilnik -- Olafur Eliasson -- Candice Breitz -- Rashid Johnson -- Rivane Neuenschwander -- Anetta Mona Chișa And Lucia Tkáčová -- Brad Kahlhamer -- Ernesto Neto And The Huni Kuin -- Politics Of Speech And Silence : Staging Resistances -- Ritu Sarin And Tenzing Sonam -- Amar Kanwar -- Los Carpinteros -- Omer Fast -- Phil Collins -- Jeremy Deller And Cecilia Bengolea -- Cecilia Bengolea -- Monica Bonvicini -- Sarah Lucas -- Walid Raad -- Agency : Deviant Practices And Displaced Histories -- Janet Cardiff And George Bures Miller -- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Ragnar Kjartansson -- Rirkrit Tiravanija -- Carsten Höller -- Liam Gillick -- Pierre Huyghe -- Dan Graham And Tony Oursler Featuring Japanther And The Huber Marionettes -- Gelitin -- Christoph Schlingensief -- Ragnar Kjartansson And Friends -- Hans Schabus -- Practices Of Counter-Research : Reading Evidences Against The Grain -- Amar Kanwar -- Sanja Iveković -- Mario García Torres -- Basel Abbas And Ruanne Abou-Rahme -- Olaf Nicolai -- Emanuel Danesch And David Rych -- Carl Michael von Hausswolff And Thomas Nordanstad -- Marine Hugonnier -- Allan Sekula -- Armin Linke -- Nabil Ahmed -- Thinking From And Within The Oceans : TBA21-Academy And The Current -- Susanne M. Winterling -- Jana Winderen -- Atif Akin -- Ariel Guzik -- Eduardo Navarro -- Janaina Tschäpe And David Gruber -- Joan Jonas -- Laura Anderson Barbata -- Dark Morph (Carl Michael von Hausswolff And Jónsi) -- Superflex -- Inhabitants -- John Akomfrah -- Eco-Dissidence And Survival In The Technosphere : The Planet In Transformation -- Matthew Ritchie With Aranda, Lasch And Arup Agu -- Territorial Agency -- Lisa Rave -- Rare Earth -- Julian Charrière -- Suzanne Treister -- Ursula Mayer -- Charles Stankievech -- Carsten Nicolai -- Mario García Torres -- Tomás Saraceno -- Allora & Calzadilla -- Abraham Cruzvillegas -- Jorge Otero -- Pailos -- The Undisciplined Form : Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries -- David Adjaye And Olafur Eliasson -- Cerith Wyn Evans -- Olafur Eliasson -- Nevin Aladaǧ -- Isa Genzken -- Simon Starling -- Superflex -- Sissel Tolaas -- Tyler Coburn -- Neïl Beloufa -- Claudia Comte -- Jonathan Meese -- John Bock -- Ragnar Kjartansson -- Mathias Poledna -- Spaces Of Unexpected Learning : What Is Knowledge, Anyway? -- Green Light (Shared Learning) -- Sharon Lockhart -- Noa Eshkol -- Doug Aitken -- Lopud Seminars -- Olaf Nicolai -- Marine Hugonnier -- Ritu Sarin And Tenzing Sonam -- Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel Müller And Cybermohalla Ensemble -- Class Of Interpretation -- Ephemeropteræ -- Appendix.

Call Number

JQD 21-191

ISBN

• 9783956795558
• 3956795555

LCCN

9783956795558

OCLC

1202593699

Title

Thyssen-Bornemisza art contemporary : the commissions book / edited by Daniela Zyman, Eva Ebersberger.

Publisher

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Zyman, Daniela, editor.

Ebersberger, Eva, editor.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation)

Other Standard Identifier

9783956795558

Research Call Number

JQD 21-191