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Based on the breathtaking photographs taken by ร‰tienne-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

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.

  • ยซThis Play Sucks...ยป is a pluri-form around an artistic wind tunnel in Zurich and its possible impossibilities: a theater play that cannot be staged, a yearly calendar that cannot be followed, a tornado โ€“onstage and backstageโ€“ photo album, and at the same time full of swirling metaphors that test your mind. Written by the Greek writer Eirini Sourgiadaki, who is Certified on Metaphorical Thinking & Acting, and materialised by Florian Dombois and Viola Zimmermann this book shows the ยซonly one way to control life [...] being publicly presented here for the first time ever, as a minimum contribution to science and humankind.ยป

    English texts
    Broschure, 120 pages, b/w
    17 x 11,2 cm

    Edited at argobooks, Berlin
    ISBN 978-3-942700-95-5

  • 15.09.2018 - 06.01.2019, IN SITU: Haseeb Ahmed โ”€ ยซThe Wind Eggยป, Einzelausstellung im M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (more)

  • Florian Dombois und Valรฉrie Knoll (Hg.): ยซIm Tun. Eine Geschichte der Kรผnstler*innen 2018-1993ยป. Zรผrich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018
    Die Kunsthalle Bern, die ยซMutter aller Kunsthallenยป, wurde 1918 von Berner Kรผnstler*innen gegrรผndet. Hundert Jahre spรคter nehmen wiederum 25 Kรผnstler*innen mit Bern-Bezug die Arbeit der Kunsthalle der letzten 25 Jahre in den Blick. Es entsteht vor unseren Augen ein Geschichtspanorama, in dem die Kรผnstler*innen eine historische Bewertung vornehmen und uns die Geschichte der Kunstproduktion aus der Perspektive der Produzierenden erzรคhlen.
    Mit Beitrรคgen von Nino Baumgartner, Babette Berger, Heinz Brand, Manuel Burgener, Florian Dombois, Quynh Dong, Beat Feller, Michael Gรผnzburger, Jรผrg Halter, Thomas Hirschhorn, Lilly Keller, Frantiฤek Klossner, Valรฉrie Knoll, Lang / Baumann, Karin Lehmann, Brigitte Lustenberger, Manon, Annina Matter / Urs Zahn, Heinz Mollet / Li Mollet, Ka Moser, Olivier Mosset, Annaรฏk Lou Pitteloud, Vaclav Pozarek, Markus Raetz, Kotscha Reist, Leopold Schropp.

    Broschur, 416 Seiten, 400 farbige und sw Abbildungen
    15 x 21 cm
    ISBN 978-3-85881-594-1

    Erschienen bei Scheidegger & Spiess 
    http://tinyurl.com/Kunsthalle-100

  • 14.04. โ€“ 17.06.2018, Christoph Oeschger, Einzelausstellung: ยซThey've Made US Ghostsยป, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, http://www.kunstverein-friedrichshafen.de/

  • Kaspar Kรถnig, ยซDomesticated Windยป, CD, produced and recorded 2015/16 at the Windtunnel facility of the fsp-t with Prof. Florian Dombois. Windtunnel opperator: Eirini Sourgiadaki, recording & realisation: Andrew Phillips, Video & photography: Yan Junjie. Hg. Rumpsti-Pumsti / Tochnit Aleph, Berlin, 2017

  • 9.7. โ€“ 13.8.2017, Ausstellung  ยซFlorian Dombois: Galleria del Ventoยป, Research Pavilion, Sala del Camino, Venedig

  • What would the twenty-first century be like without a history of scaling beyond all measure? Technological progress thrives primarily on peopleโ€™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 Vรถlter, Sarine Waltenspรผl, Christoph Weckerle and Reinhard Wendler

    English texts
    Broschure, 208 pages, 4 color and 73 black and white images
    14 ร— 20 cm, ISBN 978-3-85881-793-8
    CHF 29.00 / EUR 29.00

    Edited by Scheidegger & Spiess

  • Where is the wind when it isnโ€™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 โ€“ in other words, something invisible โ€“ 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 Kรถnig,  Dieter Mersch, Isabel Mundry, Mirjam Steiner, Jan Svenungsson, Sarine  Waltenspรผl 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

  • 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 Garcรญa Dรผttmann, 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
    โ‚ฌ30.00 / CHF 45.00
    diaphanes



    Erschienen bei diaphanes

  • 8.9. โ€“ 8.10.2016, Haseeb Ahmed, ยซWirdยป, solo exhibition, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, Belgium

  • 3.7. โ€“ 28.8.2016, ยซFlorian Dombois: Inside Outยป, solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland 

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

  • Ed. by Josef Felix Mรผller. St. Gallen / Berlin: Vexer-Verlag, 2014.

  • Lucerne: edizioni periferia, 2013.

  • London: Koenig, 2012.

  • Basel: Hรผngerkรผnstler, 2013.

  • Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013.