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    New publication: Art, Self & System

    Published on21.05.2019

    • Fine Arts

    The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put forward the notions of «self» and «system». First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Let’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 artists’ books. Let’s invent our right to do so. Let’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 manage—from making objects to performing one’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, Désirée Myriam Gnaba, Noëlle Guidon, Adrian Hanselmann, Vanessà 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 Röller, Evan Ruetsch, Antonio Scarponi, Christoph Schifferli, Claudia Stöckli, Aurélie Strumans, Raphael Stucky, Jan Vorisek.

    The book will be launched during the opening of the Master Fine Arts Degree Show 2019.
    When: Thursday, 6 June 2019, 6pm to 10pm
    Where: Ramp terrace of Toni cinema foyer, Level 3, Toni-Areal

    Art, Self & System
    Donatella Bernardi (editor)
    Zurich University of the Arts and Sternberg Press, 2019
    328 pages
    Black and white / Colour
    English

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