This volume both gathers and expands on the results of the research project “Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions” held at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, and proposes to draft a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions. It undertakes a transdisciplinary history, at the nexus of art history, science studies, and philosophy, exploring the role the exhibition played in the construction of the conceptual categories of modernity, and outlines a historiographical model that grasps the exhibition as both an aesthetic and epistemic site.
Contributions by Etienne Chambaud, Elitza Dulguerova, Anselm Franke, Tristan Garcia, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Yuk Hui, Pierre Huyghe, Sami Khatib, Jeremy Lecomte, Stéphane Lojkine, Rafael Mandressi, Vincent Normand, Peter Osborne, Filipa Ramos, Juliane Rebentisch, João Ribas, Pamela Rosenkranz, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Anna-Sophie Springer, Lucy Steeds, Olivier Surel, Etienne Turpin, Kim West, Charles Wolfe.
Co-published by Sternberg Press and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne.
Graphic design by Wolfgang Hückel et Katharina Tauer.
English
21 x 28 cm (softcover)
308 pages (85 color and 46 b/w ill.)
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Tristan Garcia, Vincent Normand (Eds.), Theater, Garden, Bestiary – A Materialist History of Exhibitions