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Parkett (Paperback)
Thomas Demand, John Wesley, Jeremy Millar; Edited by Russell Ferguson; Text written by Andreas Ruby; Contributions by …
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R774
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Place (Paperback)
Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar
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R499
R416
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Everyone wants to find their own place in the world. But where is
it and what is it? How do we recognize place as being significant
and not just merely space? And what is it that makes one place
special and another not? These are questions that have taxed
philosophers as far back as ancient Greece. But they are also much
more than philosophical investigations. In a world where neighbours
fight over a stretch of land, or where some groups can feel safe
only in certain locations, place is a living reality that can be
either the cause for violent conflict or the glue that binds
communities together. This exhibition in a book presents some of
the most challenging art to address the function of place in the
contemporary world. Arranged into themed 'rooms', it reflects a
wide variety of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists find
inspiration in the heterogeneity of the crowded city street, while
others celebrate the wilds of nature as a counter to urban life.
Some present imagined or fantastic worlds of their own invention,
or explore the way place is often a creation of the mind. Others
investigate the deep marks that myth and history can leave on the
land, or consider how place can be used as a form of political
control.Territorial divisions demarcating one place from another,
often with terrible consequences, are the chosen subjectmatter of
many artists; others prefer to look at itinerant wanderers with no
claims on the earth, or to focus on anonymous non-places that lack
any real identity of their own. All of the artists in this book -
among them Thomas Demand, Allan Sekula, Luc Tuymans, Steve McQueen,
Roni Horn and Susan Hiller - use art to puzzle out the complicated
ways in which place can shape and affect us. All of them help us to
understand the world in which we live.
An illustrated discussion of Fischli and Weiss's famous film The
Way Things Go, marking the twentieth anniversary of its first
screening, explores why this captivating work continues to
fascinate viewers. The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is a
thirty-minute film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
featuring a series of chain reactions involving ordinary objects.
It is also one of the truly amazing works of art produced in the
late twentieth century. Admired, even loved, by members of the
public as much as it is praised by the more specialist audience of
artists, critics, and curators, The Way Things Go was perhaps the
most popular work shown at Documenta 8, Kassel, in 1987. The work
embodies many of the qualities that make Fischli and Weiss's work
among the most captivating in the world today: slapstick humor and
profound insight; a forensic attention to detail; a sense of
illusion and transformation; and the dynamic exchange between
states of order and chaos. In discussing what makes The Way Things
Go utterly compelling to its viewers-whether they have seen it one
time or many times-Jeremy Millar leaves no doubt as to why this
film was chosen for the One Works series. As everyday objects
crash, scrape, slide, or fly into one another with devastating,
impossible, and persuasive effect, viewers find themselves
witnessing a spectacle that seems at once prehistoric and
postapocalyptic. Millar tells us why this extraordinary film speaks
to us at the beginning of the twenty-first century. If history is
"just one thing after another," then The Way Things Go is truly a
historic work. Jeremy Millar is an artist. He is the author of
Place (with Tacita Dean) and has contributed to many artist's
monographs. He has also curated many solo and group exhibitions
internationally. Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
received Europe's most coveted art prize, the Roswitha Haftmann
Prize, in November 2006. A major retrospective of their work,
"Flowers and Questions," originating at the Tate, London, travels
to Zurich and Hamburg in 2007 and 2008.
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