Ars Viva 2012-13 - N/A

Simon Denny, Melvin Moti, Özlem Günyol, Mustafa Kunt

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This year's ars viva prize from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft investigates the potential of art to reveal, cast doubt upon, and creatively use systems of any kind.

Systems provide structure and offer opportunities for comparison; no science can do without order, no society can dispense with organization. Art, on the other hand, undermines systems. Spontaneous, creative force and creative idiosyncrasy can run athwart established, everyday structures. This publication presents the works of this year's prize winners: alternative models and artistic strategies that question what we supposedly know about the world. In his 35-mm films Melvin Moti (*1977 in Rotterdam) shows how the human brain processes information and is disturbed by optical phenomena in the process. In his video works and installations Simon Denny (*1982 in Auckland) reflects upon media reception of images. The artist duo of Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt (*1977 and 1978 in Ankara), on the other hand, use videos, sculptures, and photographs...
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2012Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag144 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3775735143ISBN-13: 9783775735148

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