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    Art, Self & System

    This book arises from the 2018 activities of the Master Fine Arts programme at the ZHdK. It reflects the conviction that an arts school can be a pedagogic nexus dedicated to the transmission of knowledge, experimentation, and research, as much as a locus for civic and critical debate and exhibition, involved in its community, locally and globally.

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    The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put forward the notions of โ€œselfโ€ and โ€œsystem.โ€ First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Letโ€™s construct a space
    where we inevitably find ourselves together with others, even if we feel lonely, like a witch lost in a library of artistsโ€™ books. Letโ€™s invent our right to do so. Letโ€™s enter the world of smell and write about a megalomaniac art school while documenting a generation of art students and their studios with analogue photography. How does anyone even manageโ€”from making objects to performing oneโ€™s own existence? Device, organon, animal.

    With the contributions of Jeremy Ayer, Velibor Barisic, Donatella Bernardi, Amos Bollag, Katharina Brandl, Clifford E. Bruckmann, Gioia Dal Molin, Philip Frowein, Dรฉsirรฉe Myriam Gnaba, Noรซlle Guidon, Adrian Hanselmann, Vanessร  Heer, Dijan Kahrimanovic, Maya Lama, Matthias Liechti, Romain Mader, Marisa Meier, Javor Milanov, Fidel Morf, Angi Nend, Dominic Neuwirth, Leila Peacock, Elodie Pong, Dorothee Richter, Nils Rรถller, Evan Ruetsch, Antonio Scarponi, Christoph Schifferli, Claudia Stรถckli, Aurรฉlie Strumans, Raphael Stucky, Jan Vorisek.

    Published with Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Sternberg Press