Laboratorium
Editorial Reviews Book Description At first glance, the artist and the scientist don't seem to have very much in common. One deals with aesthetics, emotions, and visual power, while the other works with facts, verifiable proof, and academic rigor. At another level, however, we find similarities: both artists and scientists work in the realms of imagination, of asking what is possible, of experimentation. One of the ways that these similarities find their expression is in the workplace: the artist's studio and the scientist's laboratory. "Laboratorium" explores the laboratory and the studio on the basis of their various concepts within different disciplines. Drawings from distinct yet interrelated domains, the book singles out complex scientific and artistic investigations into the limits and possibilities of the places where knowledge and culture are made. Published on the occasion of an exhibition in Antwerp, it presents, in a volume designed by Bruce Mau, the experiments, laboratories, and projects initiated by participants from various fields in the arts and sciences. In addition, there are several essays and interviews that trace the intellectual implications of the workplace and process of investigations.
Artists include: Bruce Mau, Tacita Dean, Rem Koolhaas, Jan Fabre, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Gabriel Orozco, Lewis Baltz, Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Thomas Bayrle, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Michel Francois, Liam Gillick, Joseph Grigely, Carsten Holler, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jason Rhoades, Adam Lowe, Ken Lum, Erwan Maheo, Jean-Charles Massera, Gustav Metzger, Jean-Luc Moulene, Koo Jeong-a, Martha Rosler, Tomoko Takahashi, Rosemarie Trockel, Wang Jian Wei, Lawrence Weiner
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Barbara Vanderlinden. Texts by Bruno Latour, Peter Galison, Jonas Mekas and others. Interviews with Carsten Holler, Odalele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Okwui Enwezor, and others.
263 color and 118 b&w.
7.75 x 9.75 in. About the Author Curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in Zurich in 1968. Some of the well-regarded exhibitions he has organized include many collaborations with the Museum in Progress in Vienna and the ongoing project "Migrations", at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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