World out of joint. Welt aus den Fugen.
Snoeck. Kunst Museum Winterthur.| N° d'inventaire | 30975 |
| Format | 21 X 27 |
| Détails | 128 p., paperback with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Wintertour, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9923864423925 |
Since the 1960s, installation has gradually become an essential artistic discipline. It confronts the audience with a mass of information and a large number of simultaneous facts that pose a permanent challenge to receptivity and attention—a situation omnipresent in today's knowledge society. Installations in space make almost no use of classical artistic disciplines; they are mostly staged using everyday objects, ready-mades, and new media. The observing audience finds themselves at the heart of the work; all the senses are engaged, and films, videos, sounds, lights, and smells expand the classical aesthetic experience into a holistic one. Inner density is continuously produced as multiple impressions are subjectively classified and assembled into situations. Installations have also gained in complexity with the use of new digital media. The clear demarcation between the artwork and the audience is disappearing in favor of multimedia spaces in which the world seems to literally go off the rails. The publication "Welt aus den Fugen" ("World Out of Focus") presents, with the help of nine large-scale installations by contemporary artists of the younger generation from around the world, the response to current topics such as climate change, artificial intelligence, cryptoevolution, ecology, identity politics and migration. The book also offers, in the form of a glossary, an overview of the complexity of the fundamental concepts.
Since the 1960s, installation has gradually become an essential artistic discipline. It confronts the audience with a mass of information and a large number of simultaneous facts that pose a permanent challenge to receptivity and attention—a situation omnipresent in today's knowledge society. Installations in space make almost no use of classical artistic disciplines; they are mostly staged using everyday objects, ready-mades, and new media. The observing audience finds themselves at the heart of the work; all the senses are engaged, and films, videos, sounds, lights, and smells expand the classical aesthetic experience into a holistic one. Inner density is continuously produced as multiple impressions are subjectively classified and assembled into situations. Installations have also gained in complexity with the use of new digital media. The clear demarcation between the artwork and the audience is disappearing in favor of multimedia spaces in which the world seems to literally go off the rails. The publication "Welt aus den Fugen" ("World Out of Focus") presents, with the help of nine large-scale installations by contemporary artists of the younger generation from around the world, the response to current topics such as climate change, artificial intelligence, cryptoevolution, ecology, identity politics and migration. The book also offers, in the form of a glossary, an overview of the complexity of the fundamental concepts.