Key Publications

Florian Dombois, Christoph Oeschger: Movements of Air

Based on the breathtaking photographs taken by Étienne-Jules Marey between 1899 and 1901 in a wind tunnel he developed, two essays by Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni reflect on their technical and art historical significance. In their epilogue, the two artists Florian Dombois and Christoph Oeschger follow the "graphic" vortices of the last 120 years from the perspective of image-making in the form of a collage of historical and contemporary material, which they interweave with their own image production.

Text in English.
Softcover, 384 p. 180 b/w images.

Published by diaphanes, Berlin/Zurich (2023).
ISBN 978-3-0358-0512-3

Florian Dombois, Marlene Wenger: Wind Tunnel Deck

Speculations about the ambiguity of artworks and their potential to weave themselves into different horizons of meaning are varied and numerous. The "Wind Tunnel Deck" card game takes this observation seriously. It gives voice to the concepts, forces, actors, artifacts, and happenings that have been operating around the Wind Tunnel by Florian Dombois and his research group at the ZHdK since 2012, and focuses on their yet open potentials.

Dombois, Florian / Wenger, Marlene: Wind Tunnel Deck, Lausanne: art&fiction, 2022.
Dimensions: 7 x 12 cm

The card set can be ordered at art&fiction.

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Florian Dombois und Julie Harboe (Ed). Too Big to Scale - On Scaling Space, Numbers, Time and Energy

What would the twenty-first century be like without a history of scaling beyond all measure? Technological progress thrives primarily on people’s intellectual ability to envision things as being bigger or smaller, to imagine processes as being faster or slower, or to envisage what effects might result from upscaling or downscaling energy. While this ability has accompanied humankind since the beginnings of art and its representation, it has taken on completely different dimensions since industrialization. This book is a collection of contributions on the theme of scaling by 14 representatives from the fields of art, art history, system design, cultural analysis and aerodynamics.

Edited by Florian Dombois and Julie Harboe
With contributions from Haseeb Ahmed, Olivier Chazot, Florian Dombois, Andrew Fisher, Simon Grand, Julie Harboe, Juliet Koss, Adrien Lucca, Frank Schweitzer, Mirjam Steiner, Helmut Völter, Sarine Waltenspül, Christoph Weckerle and Reinhard Wendler

2017
Paperback
208 pages, 4 color and 73 b/w illustrations
14 x 20 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-793-8

Edited by Scheidegger & Spiess

Florian Dombois (Hg.): The Wind Tunnel Model / Transdisciplinary Encounters

Where is the wind when it isn’t blowing? The artist Florian Dombois proposes alternative forms of interaction between disciplines: instead of defining a problem or a topic to be tackled from different angles, Dombois created a wind tunnel laboratory that remains empty in the middle. An architecture that turns its back to us and shapes the wind – in other words, something invisible – and a model of a second order that we encounter in an unsettlingly concrete matter.

Edited by Florian Dombois
With contributions from Haseeb Ahmed, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Martin Burr, Florian Dombois, Julie Harboe, Christoph Hoffmann, Kaspar König,  Dieter Mersch, Isabel Mundry, Mirjam Steiner, Jan Svenungsson, Sarine  Waltenspül and Reinhard Wendler

English texts
Broschure, 208 pages, 18 color and 12 black and white images
17 x 24 cm, ISBN 978-3-85881-792-1
CHF 29.00 / EUR 29.00

Published by Scheidegger & Spiess

Florian Dombois, Mira Fliescher, Dieter Mersch, Julia Rintz (Ed.): Aesthetic Thinking

Aesthetic Thinking
Non-Propositionality, Episteme, Art

Florian Dombois, Mira Fliescher, Dieter Mersch and Julia Rintz (Editors)

Rather than addressing "aesthetic thinking", the debate on artistic research instead focuses mainly on institution-critical issues such as the role that art can play as a form of research (as discussed in the Bologna Process), or the subsumption of artistic praxis under an inadequate definition of scientific research. But what is the actual potential epistemic power of art? Would it not make sense to circumvent entrenched models of the "institution of art" and a concept of knowledge that limits itself to propositionality and truth in propositions in order to outline the contours of a method of aesthetic thinking?
This book presents both artistic and philosophic positions on this issue. It also includes a "toolbox" that offers an alternative map of relevant fields of aesthetic thinking in order to inject new concepts into the debate.

With essays by Florian Dombois, Alexander García Düttmann, Mira Fliescher, Jochen Gerz, Dieter Mersch, Isabel Mundry, Michaela Ott and Mirjam Steiner.
304 pages, brochure, 50 b&w images
ISBN 978-3-03734-667-9
€30.00 / CHF 45.00
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Erschienen bei diaphanes

Florian Dombois: Angeschlagene Moderne / Struck Modernism

Ed. by Museum Haus Konstruktiv (exh. cat.). Berlin: The Green Box, 2014.

Florian Dombois, Priska Gisler, Schirin Kretschmann, Markus Schwander (eds.): Präparat Bergsturz. Vol. 2

Lucerne: edizioni periferia, 2013.

Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer, Claudia Mareis, Michael Schwab (eds.): Intellectual Birdhouse: Artistic Practice as Research

London: Koenig, 2012.

Reinhard Wendler: Das Modell zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft

Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013.