Michael Sailstorfer: ReaktorThis book discusses Michael Sailstorfer's most recent work, with a special focus on issues of space and site specificity. Pieces such as Study for Breathing House (a detonation which causes a house to shrink and expand, almost imperceptibly), Endless column (a light beaming into the sky through an open ceiling) or Andy Warhol (perfume dispenser) involve light, smell, energy, and noise as suitable material for the artist's sculptural interventions. Characterized by a wild sense of absurdism, subversive poetry and melancholic humor, Sailstorfer's oeuvre can be read against the backdrop of the conceptualization of space. Along the lines of philosopher Franz Xaver Baier's texts, his work involves the experience of invisible, moving, and existential space, where time and distance become relevant categories for a continuing expansion of spatial knowledge. This comprehensive book contains an essay by art critic Jennifer Allen, a text of fiction by the author Ingo Niermann, a text by Schorsch Kamerun, singer, author, and director, extracts from Franz Xaver Baier's book Der Raum and an interview by curator Neville Wakefield. Michael Sailstorfer has forthcoming solo exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, and at P.S.1, New York. Contributors |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 12
... visible . NEVILLE WAKEFIELD | Was going to ask you about process . Process versus the final stage . And you talk about process in terms of that transfor- mation and obviously some of the pieces , like the wood shed , the process becomes ...
... visible environment . As Michel Foucault rightly says , the phenomenologists have taught us " that we do not live in a homogeneous and empty space , but on 32 JACQUES DERRIDA , " ARCHITECTURE WHERE THE DESIRE MAY LIVE " ( CONVERSATION ...
... visible reality . Every human being has invisible maps in its head on which to base its personal orientation . We can understand people , cultures , and contexts only if we succeed in entering the " mirror - world . " VIRULENT SPACE ...