Βιβλιοθήκη
Στο χώρο του Κολεγίου υπάρχει ενημερωμένη Βιβλιοθήκη, με ελληνικούς και ξενόγλωσσους τίτλους. Ειδικότερα περιλαμβάνει:
βιβλία ιστορίας και θεωρίας της τέχνης,
βιβλία ιστορίας και θεωρίας της αρχιτεκτονικής,
καταλόγους εκθέσεων
περιοδικά
Ο κατάλογος της προβλέπεται να γίνει σύντομα και ηλεκτρονικά προσβάσιμος.
Παρέχει επίσης μόνο στους σπουδαστές του College of Fine Arts Βοργίας τη δυνατότητα on-line πρόσβασης στον κύριο κατάλογο της βιβλιοθήκης του University of Bolton.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
martha rosler library----
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unitednationsplaza
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Martha Rosler Library
June 2 - August 31, 2007
unitednationsplaza is pleased to announce the opening of Martha Rosler Library on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 at 19:00. Comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist's personal collection, the Library was opened to the public by e-flux in November 2005 as a storefront reading room on Ludlow street in New York City. It has since traveled to Frankfurter Kunstverein and MuHKA, Antwerp. The library will remain on view in Berlin through August 31st and will travel to Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris in November.
"In an act of incredible generosity, one of America’s most important living artists temporarily dispossessed herself of the vast majority of her personal library so that it could be made available for consultation. No borrowing was possible, but the eclectic ensemble of books on economics, political theory, war, colonialism, poetry, feminism, science fiction, art history, mystery novels, children’s books, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards and newspaper clippings could be studied at will. Smart, decidedly political in orientation, often funny, and all over the place (in that way a perfect mirror of its owner), the library is packed with essential reading and titles that even your better bookstores would love to get their hands on. As the product of decades of avid reading, the contents of the library are both the source of Rosler’s work and an installation/artwork that continues many of the concerns – with public space, access to information and engaged citizenship – that traverse her entire oeuvre."
--Elena Filipovic, Afterall, issue 15, Spring/Summer 2007
A personal library represents the private sphere of an individual, her way of acquiring and combining knowledge. Accumulation is the result of an intellectual inquiry that takes place in parallel with a more random search, which can lead us to unexpected textual, and therefore mental, spaces. Martha Rosler Library offers the visitor an opportunity to approach this open source of information with her or his own interests, and to create new affinities and connections between the elements of the library that add to more than the sum of knowledge contained in it. The bibliography, currently in process, can be accessed online at http://www.e-flux.com/projects/library
A reading group will be assembled to use the library as the basis for a series of informal discussions around texts chosen by Martha Rosler and members of the group. The meetings were initiated in New York, and are continuing at all locations of the library as it travels. For each meeting, a guest reader will select a text from the library and lead the group. Martha Rosler will join for a special talk on June 20th at 19:00 hrs.
Admission is free. All are welcome.
For more information please contact:
magdalena@unitednationsplaza.org
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives, after spending the 1970s in California. She works in video, photo-text, installation, sculpture, and performance, and writes on aspects of culture. She is a renowned teacher and has lectured widely, nationally and internationally. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport. Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as many major international survey shows, including Open Systems at the Tate Modern (2005). Her work has been included in the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and several Whitney biennials, and she has had numerous solo exhibitions. She has been invited to participate in SkulpturProjecte07 in Mόnster. A retrospective of her work, Positions in the Life World, was shown in five European cities and at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum for Contemporary Art (both in New York), concurrently (1998–2000). Rosler has published ten books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975–2001 (MIT Press, 2004, An October Book, in conjunction with the International Center of Photography), the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rites of Passage (NYFA, 1995). If You Lived Here (Free Press, 1991) addresses her Dia project on housing, homelessness, and urban life. Several other books are in preparation. Rosler has been awarded the Spectrum International Prize in Photography for 2005. The prize was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective, If Not Now, When? at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and NGBK in Berlin. Her solo exhibition, London Garage Sale, was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in early June. She had a solo exhibition at Christian Nagel (Berlin) in January 2006 and at the University in Rennes in Spring 2006.
unitednationsplaza is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part. unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Martha Rosler Library
June 2 - August 31, 2007
unitednationsplaza
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin 10249 Germany
T. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 90
F. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 85
http://www.unitednationsplaza.org
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 14:00 - 20:00
For further information, please contact Magdalena Magiera:
magdalena@unitednationsplaza.org
unitednationsplaza
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Martha Rosler Library
June 2 - August 31, 2007
unitednationsplaza is pleased to announce the opening of Martha Rosler Library on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 at 19:00. Comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist's personal collection, the Library was opened to the public by e-flux in November 2005 as a storefront reading room on Ludlow street in New York City. It has since traveled to Frankfurter Kunstverein and MuHKA, Antwerp. The library will remain on view in Berlin through August 31st and will travel to Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris in November.
"In an act of incredible generosity, one of America’s most important living artists temporarily dispossessed herself of the vast majority of her personal library so that it could be made available for consultation. No borrowing was possible, but the eclectic ensemble of books on economics, political theory, war, colonialism, poetry, feminism, science fiction, art history, mystery novels, children’s books, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards and newspaper clippings could be studied at will. Smart, decidedly political in orientation, often funny, and all over the place (in that way a perfect mirror of its owner), the library is packed with essential reading and titles that even your better bookstores would love to get their hands on. As the product of decades of avid reading, the contents of the library are both the source of Rosler’s work and an installation/artwork that continues many of the concerns – with public space, access to information and engaged citizenship – that traverse her entire oeuvre."
--Elena Filipovic, Afterall, issue 15, Spring/Summer 2007
A personal library represents the private sphere of an individual, her way of acquiring and combining knowledge. Accumulation is the result of an intellectual inquiry that takes place in parallel with a more random search, which can lead us to unexpected textual, and therefore mental, spaces. Martha Rosler Library offers the visitor an opportunity to approach this open source of information with her or his own interests, and to create new affinities and connections between the elements of the library that add to more than the sum of knowledge contained in it. The bibliography, currently in process, can be accessed online at http://www.e-flux.com/projects/library
A reading group will be assembled to use the library as the basis for a series of informal discussions around texts chosen by Martha Rosler and members of the group. The meetings were initiated in New York, and are continuing at all locations of the library as it travels. For each meeting, a guest reader will select a text from the library and lead the group. Martha Rosler will join for a special talk on June 20th at 19:00 hrs.
Admission is free. All are welcome.
For more information please contact:
magdalena@unitednationsplaza.org
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives, after spending the 1970s in California. She works in video, photo-text, installation, sculpture, and performance, and writes on aspects of culture. She is a renowned teacher and has lectured widely, nationally and internationally. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport. Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as many major international survey shows, including Open Systems at the Tate Modern (2005). Her work has been included in the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and several Whitney biennials, and she has had numerous solo exhibitions. She has been invited to participate in SkulpturProjecte07 in Mόnster. A retrospective of her work, Positions in the Life World, was shown in five European cities and at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum for Contemporary Art (both in New York), concurrently (1998–2000). Rosler has published ten books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975–2001 (MIT Press, 2004, An October Book, in conjunction with the International Center of Photography), the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rites of Passage (NYFA, 1995). If You Lived Here (Free Press, 1991) addresses her Dia project on housing, homelessness, and urban life. Several other books are in preparation. Rosler has been awarded the Spectrum International Prize in Photography for 2005. The prize was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective, If Not Now, When? at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and NGBK in Berlin. Her solo exhibition, London Garage Sale, was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in early June. She had a solo exhibition at Christian Nagel (Berlin) in January 2006 and at the University in Rennes in Spring 2006.
unitednationsplaza is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part. unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Martha Rosler Library
June 2 - August 31, 2007
unitednationsplaza
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin 10249 Germany
T. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 90
F. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 85
http://www.unitednationsplaza.org
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 14:00 - 20:00
For further information, please contact Magdalena Magiera:
magdalena@unitednationsplaza.org
paul chan against the tyranny of use value
Paul Chan: against the tyranny of use value
In a wonderful conversation between Paul Chan and the psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips in the exhibition catalogue, Phillips says that quotation:
"…is an opportunity to have a commonwealth of things, rather than an inside. They're in circulation, these quotes, and we can use them and they may be our best way of speaking. If we drop the pressure to be original and new, we're then free to use the cultural repertoire in a completely different way. I like the thing Cocteau said, that originality is trying to be like everyone else and failing."
Chan too is a treasure trove of quotes. So here goes, raw and random, not a conversation here, just some amazing thinking:
Adam Phillips: John Ashbery once said, the worse your art is, the easier it is to talk about…
Paul Chan: …I think they [people who talk to him] don't know that they're uncomfortable talking about art. And I think they're uncomfortable because there's no quick and easy and right solution to it. Perhaps, once upon a time, we thought art was the divine, high culture. We don't know what it is now.
AP: …it's terrible to live in a world where art becomes a kind of fetishised, thin religion.
PC: …there's a strange tyranny of use value … I think of that beautiful line by Adorno, who wrote that art is like weeping without tears. You could adapt that and say: the art market is a parody without laughter.
AP: …You talk in one interview … about "the cheap thrill of understanding". It's striking that when people write about your work, they end up merely describing it … We've been educated into the myth of understanding, as though understanding is the object of desire. But what do you do if you don't understand?
PC: …There's that beautiful quote from Randell Jarrell, who said, "If I can think of it, it's not what I want."
AP: There's a letter that Keats writes, where he talks about not liking poetry that has a palpable design on the reader. I often feel that some so-called artists are too knowing; they have a real intention and they want to do something to you and they think they know what that is.
PC: …Waiting for Godot had been playing in Paris for a year and a half and really going nowhere, but finally, for some reason it picked up and people loved it. A reporter asked Beckett, "What's it like to be a successful playwright?" Beckett replied: "I'm afraid the success comes form a complete misunderstanding of my work."
AP: John Ashbery said, "If you talk to other people, eventually they lose interest. But if you start talking to yourself, they want to listen in."
In a wonderful conversation between Paul Chan and the psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips in the exhibition catalogue, Phillips says that quotation:
"…is an opportunity to have a commonwealth of things, rather than an inside. They're in circulation, these quotes, and we can use them and they may be our best way of speaking. If we drop the pressure to be original and new, we're then free to use the cultural repertoire in a completely different way. I like the thing Cocteau said, that originality is trying to be like everyone else and failing."
Chan too is a treasure trove of quotes. So here goes, raw and random, not a conversation here, just some amazing thinking:
Adam Phillips: John Ashbery once said, the worse your art is, the easier it is to talk about…
Paul Chan: …I think they [people who talk to him] don't know that they're uncomfortable talking about art. And I think they're uncomfortable because there's no quick and easy and right solution to it. Perhaps, once upon a time, we thought art was the divine, high culture. We don't know what it is now.
AP: …it's terrible to live in a world where art becomes a kind of fetishised, thin religion.
PC: …there's a strange tyranny of use value … I think of that beautiful line by Adorno, who wrote that art is like weeping without tears. You could adapt that and say: the art market is a parody without laughter.
AP: …You talk in one interview … about "the cheap thrill of understanding". It's striking that when people write about your work, they end up merely describing it … We've been educated into the myth of understanding, as though understanding is the object of desire. But what do you do if you don't understand?
PC: …There's that beautiful quote from Randell Jarrell, who said, "If I can think of it, it's not what I want."
AP: There's a letter that Keats writes, where he talks about not liking poetry that has a palpable design on the reader. I often feel that some so-called artists are too knowing; they have a real intention and they want to do something to you and they think they know what that is.
PC: …Waiting for Godot had been playing in Paris for a year and a half and really going nowhere, but finally, for some reason it picked up and people loved it. A reporter asked Beckett, "What's it like to be a successful playwright?" Beckett replied: "I'm afraid the success comes form a complete misunderstanding of my work."
AP: John Ashbery said, "If you talk to other people, eventually they lose interest. But if you start talking to yourself, they want to listen in."
Friday, May 11, 2007
prefix foto
informed by eflux
Prefix Photo is an engaging magazine dedicated to contemporary photography and related arts. Characterized by innovative design and outstanding production values, Prefix Photo consists primarily of portfolio and essay sections, providing a complement of intelligent texts and breath-taking visuals. These features are accompanied by newsbriefs which provide information and opportunities for professional photographers, including new technological developments.
Each issue of Prefix Photo presents the work of Canadian photographers, both emerging and established, alongside that of their international counterparts. But Prefix Photo is not restricted to images conventionally considered to be "photographic"; its mandate encompasses film, video and digital art. Whether photographic or photo-based, photocollage or photocopied, photogravure or photogram, Prefix Photo seeks to represent the breadth of practices and concepts, old, new, or as yet unimagined, which surround the transformation of light into image. Prefix Photo creates a space in which the notion of photography is open to infinite possibilities of change, development and growth — where photography is, in a sense, "prefixed."
Prefix Photo has received numerous awards to date and was named Best New Magazine at the National Magazine Awards in 2002. Published twice annually by Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the arrival of each issue is announced with a series of celebratory launches in major centres across Canada.
Publications with ordering possibility
The DaimlerChrysler Collection is pleased to announce that some 35 titles of the collection can now be ordered online. Thanks to a new established collaboration with the Berlin based bookshop Bόcherbogen am Savignyplatz all publications - covering the history of the collection from 1977 to today as well as new acquisitions – are now available worldwide.
Started in 1977 the DaimlerChrysler Collection focuses on abstract and geometrical pictorial concepts, from which it derives its distinctive character today. With its quality and presence among the staff and international museums, the DaimlerChrysler Collection continuously expanded to include some 1,500 works by German and international artists today. The Collection reflects the company’s commitment to art as an inherent element of the corporation's social self-concept and cultural profile.
Various exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and theme publications have been published over a period of almost thirty years. With contributions of various authors and acclaimed art critics every exhibition at DaimlerChrysler Contemporary is backed up with an attractive catalogue. These publications offer an excellent overview regarding the presented art works or new acquisitions and provide comprehensive information on the specific artists.
One of the exhibition series, called 'Minimalism and After', which was conceived in autumn 2000 for the Collection has recently been summarized in a broad compendium. About 300 works by approximately 150 artists are introduced in substantial work monographs, complemented by a thematic essay which – through the perspective of a corporate collection – sums up a 100 years history of abstract art from the Adolf Hφlzel class at the Stuttgart Academy 1906 to the present day.
Minimalism and After - Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to the Present
New acquisitions for the DaimlerChrysler Collection 2000 to 2006
Work monographs on about 150 artists, 23 x 28 cm, 560 pages, about 620 color ill.
Also Available:
Exhibition catalogues of DaimlerChrysler Contemporary in Berlin, among others:
Private Corporate IV - A dialogue of the collections Poddar and DaimlerChrysler
Paperback, 97 pages, German/English, 75 color ill., 2007
CLASSICAL : MODERN - Classical Modern Art of the DaimlerChrysler
Paperback, 81 pages, German/English, 124 color ill., 2006
Photography, Video and Mixed Media II, New acquisitions
Paperback, 73 pages, German/English, 73 color ill., 2005
Monographs and theme publications, among others:
Contemporary Art for the Mercedes-Benz Welt Stuttgart
Paperback, 76 pages, German/English, 52 color ill., 2006
Franz Erhard Walther – Wortfeld, 2005
Paperback, 32 pages, German or English, 23 color ill. 2006
Sylvia Fleury: Paris Commissioned, 2005
Paperback, 24 pages, German, French or English, 15 color ill., 2006
More exhibition catalogues and work books by the DaimlerChrysler Collection, among others:
ABC of the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Conversation with Art on Art
Ring binding, 217 pages, Japanese/English, 56 color ill., 2006
Andy Warhol – Cars and Business Art
Hardback, 144 pages, German or English, 82 color ill., 2002
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5
D - 10785 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 259 41 42 0
kunst.sammlung@daimlerchrysler.com
Started in 1977 the DaimlerChrysler Collection focuses on abstract and geometrical pictorial concepts, from which it derives its distinctive character today. With its quality and presence among the staff and international museums, the DaimlerChrysler Collection continuously expanded to include some 1,500 works by German and international artists today. The Collection reflects the company’s commitment to art as an inherent element of the corporation's social self-concept and cultural profile.
Various exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and theme publications have been published over a period of almost thirty years. With contributions of various authors and acclaimed art critics every exhibition at DaimlerChrysler Contemporary is backed up with an attractive catalogue. These publications offer an excellent overview regarding the presented art works or new acquisitions and provide comprehensive information on the specific artists.
One of the exhibition series, called 'Minimalism and After', which was conceived in autumn 2000 for the Collection has recently been summarized in a broad compendium. About 300 works by approximately 150 artists are introduced in substantial work monographs, complemented by a thematic essay which – through the perspective of a corporate collection – sums up a 100 years history of abstract art from the Adolf Hφlzel class at the Stuttgart Academy 1906 to the present day.
Minimalism and After - Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to the Present
New acquisitions for the DaimlerChrysler Collection 2000 to 2006
Work monographs on about 150 artists, 23 x 28 cm, 560 pages, about 620 color ill.
Also Available:
Exhibition catalogues of DaimlerChrysler Contemporary in Berlin, among others:
Private Corporate IV - A dialogue of the collections Poddar and DaimlerChrysler
Paperback, 97 pages, German/English, 75 color ill., 2007
CLASSICAL : MODERN - Classical Modern Art of the DaimlerChrysler
Paperback, 81 pages, German/English, 124 color ill., 2006
Photography, Video and Mixed Media II, New acquisitions
Paperback, 73 pages, German/English, 73 color ill., 2005
Monographs and theme publications, among others:
Contemporary Art for the Mercedes-Benz Welt Stuttgart
Paperback, 76 pages, German/English, 52 color ill., 2006
Franz Erhard Walther – Wortfeld, 2005
Paperback, 32 pages, German or English, 23 color ill. 2006
Sylvia Fleury: Paris Commissioned, 2005
Paperback, 24 pages, German, French or English, 15 color ill., 2006
More exhibition catalogues and work books by the DaimlerChrysler Collection, among others:
ABC of the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Conversation with Art on Art
Ring binding, 217 pages, Japanese/English, 56 color ill., 2006
Andy Warhol – Cars and Business Art
Hardback, 144 pages, German or English, 82 color ill., 2002
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5
D - 10785 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 259 41 42 0
kunst.sammlung@daimlerchrysler.com
gilbert and george the complete pictures
Lehmann Maupin Gallery is proud to announce a special booksigning event in New York with Gilbert & George. The signing will take place on Saturday, 12 May at the gallery (540 West 26th Street), from 4-6pm. A Traditional Afternoon tea will also be provided by Fortnum and Mason. Due to the limited number of books we recommend you arrive early.
'Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures' was entirely designed by the artists themselves. The two-volume book contains every picture they have created over the last 35 years and comes complete with a unique carrying case that is a work of art in itself.
Known for their controversial artwork, Gilbert & George are widely regarded as the pre-eminent artists of their generation. The volume was published on the eve of a massive retrospective exhibition that opened at Tate Modern, London in February 2007, which will tour to five other major venues across the globe, including the Castello di Rivoli, Haus der Kunst and Brooklyn Museum of Art.
With nearly 1,500 colour illustrations as well as an introductory essay by leading art historian Rudi Fuchs, 'The Complete Pictures' is the most thorough exploration of the art of Gilbert & George to date.
For more information please visit http://www.lehmannmaupin.com
'Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures' was entirely designed by the artists themselves. The two-volume book contains every picture they have created over the last 35 years and comes complete with a unique carrying case that is a work of art in itself.
Known for their controversial artwork, Gilbert & George are widely regarded as the pre-eminent artists of their generation. The volume was published on the eve of a massive retrospective exhibition that opened at Tate Modern, London in February 2007, which will tour to five other major venues across the globe, including the Castello di Rivoli, Haus der Kunst and Brooklyn Museum of Art.
With nearly 1,500 colour illustrations as well as an introductory essay by leading art historian Rudi Fuchs, 'The Complete Pictures' is the most thorough exploration of the art of Gilbert & George to date.
For more information please visit http://www.lehmannmaupin.com
Thursday, May 10, 2007
library of water----RONI HORN
For the past 25 years, the work of Roni Horn has been intimately involved with the distinctive geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland.
In collaboration with Artangel, Horn has developed VATNASAFN/LIBRARY OF WATER as a multi–faceted long-term installation and community centre in the town of Stykkishólmur on the western coast of Iceland north of Reykjavik. VATNASAFN/LIBRARY OF WATER is situated in Stykkishólmur's former library building, overlooking the ocean on one side and the harbour and town on the other.
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