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Archive of dreams surrealist impulses, networks and visions
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- Spector Books
- 15 Mai 2024
- 9783959058247
Le livre Archive of Dreams est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme à l'Archiv der Avantgarden. A l'occasion du centième anniversaire du premier manifeste surréaliste et de la création du Bureau de recherches surréalistes à Paris en 1924, le volume est dédié à ce mouvement artistique ainsi qu'à ses multiples influences sur le XXe siècle. Le Bureau recueillait des témoignages de rêves sous différentes formes, non seulement pour les conserver et les analyser, mais aussi pour les transformer et les réutiliser dans les processus créatifs. La publication montre comment les pratiques des avant-gardes ont brouillé les frontières entre rêve et réalité, entre la notion traditionnelle et passive de l'archive et l'idée d'une expérience artistique active et innovante. Des ouvrages et documents datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclairent sur les méthodes de travail des artistes internationaux et offrent une analyse du réseau mondial dans lequel ils évoluaient.
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La troisième vie d'Agnès Varda : travailler dans le temps et l'espace
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- Spector Books
- 17 Juin 2022
- 9783959056113
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Les bannkorbe (« paniers de charme ») étaient une forme unique de technologie apicole qui était populaire dans le nord de l'Allemagne, notamment en Basse-Saxe, entre le XVIIe et le début du XXe siècle. Non seulement les Bannkorbe servaient de paniers de nidification, mais les masques bizarres qui les ornent généralement servaient à éloigner les mauvais esprits. Leur apparition au crépuscule avait également pour but d'effrayer les voleurs de miel et les ours. À l'aide de textes et d'images, Aladin Borioli a mené des recherches approfondies sur le terrain autour des Bannkorbe qui existent encore aujourd'hui. Profondément enracinée dans des croyances magiques, cette tradition représente une alternative inhabituelle à la ruche moderne et à l'optimisation économique de l'apiculture et de la récolte du miel. Le livre, qui contient des textes de Bas BLAASSE, paraît dans le cadre du C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023 et accompagne l'exposition Aladin Borioli. Bannkorbe au C/O Berlin.
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Estelle Hanania / Gisèle Vienne : This causes consciousness to fracture
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- Spector Books
- 25 Novembre 2024
- 9783959058551
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En 320 images de mort, des débuts de la photographie à nos jours, ce catalogue accompagne une exposition au C/O Berlin de novembre 2018 à mars 2019. La photographie n'est pas le premier médium à avoir documenté la mort, mais elle le fait d'une manière inédite qui fige dans le temps et l'espace. Portraits anonymes post-mortem, photos judiciaires réalisées pour des enquêtes, reportages de Weegee, créations de papier de Thomas Demand, découverte des camps de la mort : toutes ces images interrogent le statut de la photographie face à la mort, entre fiction, témoignage et souvenir affectif.
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On the role of performance and audience in Nam June Paik's trailblazing media art.
This publication focuses on a feature of media artist Nam June Paik's (1932-2006) oeuvre that has been largely overlooked: the live dimension of his work, a consistent element running through his artistic career. The experience of the audience and their active involvement were crucial components in Paik's work. Starting with his early career as a composer, one focus of the book is on the way Paik approaches music as a score, a concept and an event. His artistic ideas and methods are presented with reference to key series of works?including his performances, his participatory pieces, his interest in live television and his multimedia works. This richly illustrated chronicle of his performances gives a vivid portrait of these live encounters. Specially designed pages created by the artists Annika Kahrs, Autumn Knight, Aki Onda and Samson Young underscore the relevance of Paik's work today. -
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On a little-known 1970s experiment in pneumatic architecture by the Belgian architect and Atelier Alpha cofounder.
A.J. Lode Janssens (born 1947) is one of Belgium's most idiosyncratic architects and a radical educator. He was cofounder of the experimental studio Atelier Alpha and the Sint-Lucas Werkgemeenschap, a workshop linking architectural education, practice and research, and operated in close collaboration with ILAUD, the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design. A.J. Lode Janssens: 1,47 mbar presents The Balloon, an all-but-unknown temporary pneumatic home experiment, built in 1973 in Humbeek, where he lived with his family until 1986. Lode Janssens considered it an uncompromising ephemeral attempt at de-architecturalization and living in harmony with nature: a cave-dwelling, a work-in-progress, an empirical residence. This publication accompanies the exhibition A.J. Lode Janssens: Balloon Home at CIVA in Brussels. -
Surreal and fantastical wax figures, captured by the lens of a famed Magnum photographer.
German photographer Herbert List (1903-1975) was known for his commercial work with magazines such as Vogue and Life. In 1944, he photographed the wax mannequins and automata inside Vienna's Prater, a long-standing, then-derelict fairground. Based on List's original draft, this publication presents this series in full. -
A long-needed retrospective on the great documentarian of East Germany's working-class culture.
German photographer Evelyn Richter (1930-2021) is famed for her portrayal of East Germany in the postwar era, consistently focusing its working-class culture and subjects such as children, workers, artists and musicians (although Richter regarded her documentary work as a counterforce to the politically charged images of the time).
This volume is published on the occasion of the Evelyn Richter exhibition at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. It presents the photographer's main groups of works, from the 1950s to the end of the 1980s, including photographs from Richter's archive that have only recently become publicly accessible. Throughout, Richter's images of working-class life are juxtaposed with her reportage work. -
Arch+ : The great repair : Politics for a society of repair ; A reader
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- Spector Books
- Arch+
- 1 Mai 2023
- 9783959057134
A theoretical approach to repairing society from the perils of capitalism and overconsumption.
This collaborative project between ARCH+, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, ETH Zurich and the University of Luxembourg proposes a vision of societal repair based on practices of care, maintenance and mending. -
Ce projet, lauréat du prix décerné par la fondation LUMA à Arles en 2016, fait l'objet d'une exposition aux Rencontres d'Arles 2017. Il s'agit d'un travail photographique sur Indira, l'ancienne gouvernante de la famille Sieber, une immigrée née en Bosnie qui a vécu à Düsseldorf de 1992 à 1999 avant d'aller s'installer aux États-Unis. Les images mises en page par l'agence BöhmKobayashi sont prises en Allemagne, en Bosnie et aux États-Unis ; elles retracent ce parcours, entres archives personnelles de la famille Sieber et lieux d'exil de la jeune femme.
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Paradigms and themes of the architectural in Gego's drawings and sculptures.
From 1932 to 1938, before emigrating to Venezuela, Gego (1912-94) studied architecture and engineering at the Stuttgart Polytechnic University. In 1955--as she began to become active as an artist--she wrote to her former professor, Paul Bonatz: "Even if I have strayed from architecture and found myself unable to master life through it, it has nonetheless shaped me, to some degree at least." Conceptual approaches and practical ideas about architecture and processes of space creation remained a constant theme in her art.
This book is published for the exhibition Gego: The Architecture of an Artist at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The Fundación Gego's permanent loan to the museum of 100 works has made it possible to illuminate this architectural theme, with special attention to the artist's graphic work. -
A complete visual history of the life and work of a pioneering Brazilian dancer and choreographer.
Brazilian dancer and choreographer Ismael Ivo (1955-2021) was a highly influential figure in modern dance history. This comprehensive publication, the first of its kind, provides a catalogue raisonné of his work alongside interviews from throughout his career and visual essays by Anno Wilms and Dieter Blum. -
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A multidisciplinary history of Ukraine's "Holocaust by bullets," with new research, archival materials and responses by artists.
This substantial volume provides an overview of the efforts made by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center since its founding in 2016 to document, study, disseminate, commemorate and preserve the history of Babyn Yar. It was here, in a ravine near Kyiv, that in September 1941 occupying Nazi forces shot 33,771 Jews in the "Holocaust by bullets," followed over the next two years by the murder there of nearly 70,000 more people. Babyn Yar: Past, Present, Future includes a historical overview of these events, the Holocaust in Ukraine and the ravine itself. It also showcases archival imagery, contemporary photographs of the site, groundbreaking research produced by the Center for Spatial Technologies, and artistic and architectural interventions by Marina Abramovic, Maksym Demydenko and Denis Shibanov, Manuel Herz, Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Anna Kamyshan, Oleh Shovenko and others.