Art Handling. Partituren der Logistik

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Material Manipulations shows works from the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: If you would like to learn more about our approximately 1,500 collection works, about art handling in general or about selected artists, you can now benefit from a 30% discount on all our publications in connection with this exhibition (prices are already reduced).

The term "art handling" describes aspects of the (professional) art scene that often remain invisible: installation and de-installation, technical and conservation-related documentation, storage, transport, and legal issues. Discussions around materiality reveal that infrastructure and logistics are of constitutive significance to the production and presentation of artworks. Over the course of the professionalization of the global art scene, the requirements relating to installation-based, ephemeral, and performative artworks, and how these are handled by the institutions, have continually become stricter, and issues of documentation have accordingly become more complex. On the one hand, new work concepts or works are changing the requirements for the "infrastructure" of museums. On the other hand, such "infrastructures" that now exist in many places are also directly stimulating the emergence of certain art forms.

The reader "Art Handling" was initiated as a result of the symposium of the same name held at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in 2014, and covers central aspects of this topic in essays and in a round-table discussion.

Edited by
Lucie Kolb
Christoph Lang
Wolfgang Ullrich
Judith Welter

Author(s)
Monika Dommann
Sonia Kacem
Franziska Koch
Lucie Kolb
Christoph Lang
Rachel Mader
Simone Miller
Peter J. Schneemann
Monika Schori
Wolfang Ullrich
Tobias Vogt
Judith Welter
Beat Wyss

German
ISBN 978-3-03764-414-0
February 2016
Softcover, 160x230mm
Images: 25 color
Design: Nicolas Eigenheer, Vera Kasper

Published by JRP|Ringier