Olafur Eliasson. The Blind Pavilion. - Eliasson, Olafur

The Blind Pavilion

KORTE INHOUD

The Danish Contemporary Art Foundation has chosen the artist Olafur Eliasson to represent Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in the year 2003. As a crucial link in Eliasson's procession of visions of a total experience at the Venice Biennale, a book is being published which, rather than merely serving as a representative reading of the exhibition, possesses more the character of a parallel counterpart to the exhibition.nIn close collaboration with the Danish author Svend ?ge Madsen, who has persistently challenged our notions of time and space in his writings, a number of Danish and foreign authors, poets and theoreticians have been invited to contribute texts that explore our constantly shifting and ever-evolving capacity for "orienting" ourselves. The texts will serve as contributions to an examination of how we physically and psychologically orient ourselves in the world-and of what happens when we are deprived of one or more of our orientation possibilities, for example, our ability to hear and remember,...
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2003Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag188 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3775713778ISBN-13: 9783775713771

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