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Indepth Arts News:
"What if: Art on the verge of architecture and design"
2000-05-06 until 2000-09-03
Moderna Museet
Stockholm, ,
SE Sweden
WHAT IF is an attempt to take the temperature of contemporary art through
focusing on one of its clearest trends - the interest in architecture and design.
Many artists refer to - even cannibalise - these sister disciplines for
formalistic purposes and as an expression of a longing for something concrete
and literal in a world where facts and fiction, the virtual and the real meld more
and more together. But rather than present all the various perspectives on
architecture and design one encounters in contemporary art, What if aims to
highlight and discuss how the relationship of art to these areas van provide
contemplative as well as critical reflections for a continued discussion.
What if consists of three different but equally important parts: an exhibition,
three symposia - or rather, a listen-in in the exhibition, and a publication.
The listen-ins involves artists, architects, designers, city planners, media
people etc. The first listen-in, Shifting places/Shifting scales, will take place
at the opening of the exhibition itself, and is a collaboration between the
School of Architecture, KTH, in Stockholm and Moderna Museet. The
symposium will be held in English. The publication, designed by the artist Pae
White, consists of a set of posters. It will function as part of the exhibition
rather than as a reflection of it.
The exhibition is curated by Maria Lind and filtered by Liam Gillick.
IMAGE:
PIA RÖNICKE
Somewhere Out There (1998)
Video installation
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