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Art, Self & System

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Art, Self & System

Contributors:

By (Author) Donatella Bernardi

ISBN:

9783956794889

Publisher:

Sternberg Press

Imprint:

Sternberg Press

Publication Date:

24th September 2019

Country:

Germany

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

328

Dimensions:

Width 159mm, Height 229mm, Spine 21mm

Weight:

646g

Description

How an art school can be a pedagogic nexus dedicated to the transmission of knowledge as well as a locus for civic and critical debate.The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. This book, however, puts 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 us 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 us invent our right to do so. Let us 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. This book arises from the 2018 activities of the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Zurich University of the Arts (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. Contributors Jeremy Ayer, Velibor Barisic, Donatella Bernardi, Amos Bollag, Katharina Brandl, Clifford E. Bruckmann, Gioia Dal Molin, Philip Frowein, Desiree Myriam Gnaba, Noelle Guidon, Adrian Hanselmann, Vaness 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 R ller, Evan Ruetsch, Antonio Scarponi, Christoph Schifferli, Claudia St ckli, Aurelie Strumans, Raphael Stucky, Jan Vorisek

Author Bio

Donatella Bernardi is Director of MFA program at the ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts, and was Professor at the Royal Institute of Art (Kungliga Konsth gskolan) in Stockholm from 2010 to 2016.

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