Published on the occasion of the exhibition Olafur Eliasson : in real life, Tate Modern, London, 11 July 2019 - 6 January 2020, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 14 February - 21 June 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Marcus Engman: Curiosity. Conversations with: Anna Wirz-Justice: daylight -- Rene Redzepi : taste to the limit -- Jonsi (Jon Thor Birgisson): the shape of smell -- Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Braithwaite): wild style -- Marie-Agnes Gillot: Body -- Barry C. Smith: Anti-numbness -- Brook Teklehaimanot: public space -- Alejandro Aravena: Reclaiming cities -- Mariana Mazzucato: trust -- Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: Storytelling -- Cao Fei: whose utopia -- Andreas Roepstorff: experience -- Tania Singer: compassion -- Mary Robinson: climate justice -- Josefine Klougart: we are nature -- Elke Weber: risk avoidance -- Zubaida Tahiri: green innovation -- Marcus Engman: Curiosity.
Summary:
Published to accompany the first UK retrospective of Olafur Eliasson's work, this book is conceived as an illustrated `field guide' to his practice. Featuring a substantial conversation between the artist and the Tate curator Mark Godfrey, as well as a range of short dialogues with a strikingly varied range of people working both inside and outside the arts - from anthropology, economics, political science, and biology to architecture and urbanism, dance, music, and food - the book provides readers with a "compass" to Eliasson's thinking: a 360-degree view of the frames of reference that inform his work. Eliasson builds such conversations into his daily life and work. They help him not only to understand other people's unique fields of knowledge, but also to ask, `What does my understanding of your knowledge do to my understanding of the world?', and touch on topics as wide-ranging as the social and cultural factors that contribute to social trust, the `topography' of scent, the chronobiological effects of light, public space and civic infrastructure, and the power of art. The interweaving of these texts with stunning photography of his remarkable and immersive works provides an insight into what Eliasson calls his ongoing aim of "reaching out into the world". Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (11.07.2019-05.01.2020).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.