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Designing Atmospheres: an Aesthetic Practice across the Pluriverse?

Published in: Journal of Contemporary Aesthetics, Special Vol. 12, Rhode Island 2024. Abstract Experiences of sensing of and finding oneself in a place largely depend on the design of atmospheres. Against the background of an increasing interest in ecological perspectives across various disciplines and regions, this text revisits Gernot Böhme’s respective aesthetic concept from the … Continue reading Designing Atmospheres: an Aesthetic Practice across the Pluriverse?

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Breathe In, Breathe Out: Johannes Itten and East Asia

Published in: Joana Cunha Leal, Benedikt Hjartarson, Margarida Brito Alves and David Ayers (ed.): Globalizing the Avant-garde, vol. 8 in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, pp. 173–190. Breathe in, Breathe out – as simple as it sounds at first, Johannes Itten’s calligraphic drawing from 1922 implies a complex cosmology. … Continue reading Breathe In, Breathe Out: Johannes Itten and East Asia

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The contemporary, distributed. On the mobility of a temporal concept

Published in: Heritage Space Hanoi and University of the Arts Bremen (eds.), Alternative Mobility, Hanoi 2024, pp. 173-191. “Halle” and “Hanoi”. The two places are flickering across a programmed black-and-white LED-screen as part of the work Self Portrait by Sung Tieu. They are listed among various cities where the artist has been living until the … Continue reading The contemporary, distributed. On the mobility of a temporal concept

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Coded Transition Zones: Architecture-related Works by Marguerite Hersberger

Published in: Sabine Schaschl, Stiftung für konstruktive und konzeptuelle Kunst (ed.), Dem Raum Raum geben. Marguerite Hersbergers architektur- und raumbezogenes Werk, Wien: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023, pp. 18-33. Five fragments of a cube in black volcanic rock lie scattered in the park outside the castle Schloss Salenegg. A narrow gravel path serves as the … Continue reading Coded Transition Zones: Architecture-related Works by Marguerite Hersberger

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Living and Working: On the Normalization of Artistic Work

Published in: Painters & Sculptors Building Cooperative Wuhrstrasse 8/10 Zurich (ed.), Working and Living, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess 2021, pp. 152–169. Artists live and work. This sentence with corresponding place name introduces the short text that accompanies practically every exhibition, media release, or grant application. The information inevitably provokes geographical and cultural allocations: known or … Continue reading Living and Working: On the Normalization of Artistic Work