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| Publisher | Taschen |
| ISBN 13 | 9783836582230 |
| ISBN 10 | 3836582236 |
| Author | Carsten Höller |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Carsten Höller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in pairs or in teams, in the street, in bed, on a train, wherever. No props or materials are needed. Just one body, all senses and a willingness to try something new, that's possibly conceptually or physically challenging, but guaranteed to entertain and to widen the player's horizons.Some games are more obviously daring than others - unexpectedly shouting 'bang!' when your driver's reversing into a parking space is sure to elicit a reaction - but that's absolutely the point. Other games involve covertly dropping strange phrases into conversation, executing somersaults (without practice), or plucking hairs from your opponent's head while they stay poker-faced.Höller's scientific professional background informs his keenness to create what he calls Influential Environments. He wants to tease the brain while testing its limitations, through activity and passivity, agency and inertia. He conceived his first game with a group of friends in 1992, during a tedious dinner after an exhibition opening. Since then, he has collected and invented ideas, inspired by friends, life, the Surrealists, and Arthur Rimbaud. All games are illustrated with commissioned or pre-existing artworks and photographs. We find portraits by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, August Sander, and Nan Goldin next to paintings by Salvador Dalí; snapshots of Joseph Beuys plus son and Donna Haraway plus dog next to appointed pieces by Christine Sun Kim and Anri Sala; film stills by Chantal Akerman, extracts from Shakespeare as well as treasures from Höller's personal archive--and his mother's. Edited by Stefanie Hessler and Hans Ulrich Obrist, this book encourages readers to engage in playful yet cerebral experiments that will leave them with a sense of wonder, disorientation, and a subtle smirk on their face. |
| About the Author | Carsten Höller emplea su formación científica en su trabajo como artista, donde se centra particularmente en la naturaleza de las relaciones humanas. Sus obras se han mostrado en exposiciones individuales en la Fondazione Prada de Milán (2000), el ICA de Boston (2003), el Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marsella (2004), la Tate Modern Turbine Hall de Londres (2006), la Kunsthaus Bregenz (2008), el Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen de Rotterdam (2010), el Hamburger Bahnhof de Berlín (2011), el New Museum de Nueva York (2011), la Hayward Gallery de Londres (2015), el Pirelli HangarBicocca de Milán (2016) y el Copenhagen Contemporary (2019). Hans Ulrich Obrist es el director artístico de Serpentine Galleries, Londres. Antes de eso, fue conservador del Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Desde su primera exposición, World Soup (The Kitchen Show), en 1991, ha comisariado más de 300 muestras.Stefanie Hessler es comisaria de exposiciones, escritora y editora, y su trabajo se centra en los sistemas interdisciplinarios. Es directora del Swiss Institute en Nueva York y anteriormente fue directora del Kunsthall Trondheim, en Noruega. Hessler ha trabajado con artistas como Korakrit Arunanondchai, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Joan Jonas, Tabita Rezaire, Tomás Saraceno, Jenna Sutela y Ryan Trecartin en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza de Madrid, el Ocean Space de Venecia, la Bienal de Atenas, la Bienal de São Paulo, el Hamburger Bahnhof de Berlín y el Museo de Arte Moderno de Recife. |
| Publication Date | 12 November 2024 |
| Number of Pages | 760 pages |
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