Title & Author:

Kathrin Böhm : art on the scale of life / edited by Gerrie van Noord, Paul O'Neill, and Mick Wilson.

Publication:

London : Sternberg Press ; Helsinki : PUBLICS ; London : The Showroom ; Gothenburg : HDK-Valand, [2023]
[Cambridge, Mass.]: Distributed by The MIT Press ; [London] : Art Data ; [Dijon, France] : Les presses du réel
©2023

Description:

330 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Starting from the middle / Mick Wilson -- Explaining the pile / Kathrin Böhm -- Making use of exhibitions / Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Gavin Wade, Mick Wilson, and Franciska Zólyom -- Working on the institution / Elvira Dyangani Ose -- Exhibition in use: on interdependent exhibition-making / Lily Hall -- Work related to exhibiting -- Value swap: a conversation between Céline Condorelli and Kathrin Böhm -- The Heap Agency and the work of (re)production through art / Doina Petrescu -- Work related to spaces -- At the same time as doing 'art', doing 'economy' / Katherine Gibson -- Glorypedia of socially engaged art (excerpts) / Gregory Sholette and THEMM!! -- Heads up and hands on: towards interdependent art worlds / Kuba Szreder & Kathrin Böhm -- Work related to economies -- Talking with no one else around / Grace Ndiritu and Kathrin Böhm -- The use of redundancy: a conversation with Stephen Wright / Kathrin Böhm and Stephen Wright -- Work related to cohabitations -- How we see the rural is how we want to relate to it / Wapke Feenstra -- The poster-as-practice / Paul O'Neill -- "It's actually an ethic" / Dave Beech -- Work related to compos(i)ting -- Another possible is world / Mick Wilson -- From unwieldy pile to (more or less) organized book / Gerrie van Noord -- A founders' exit plan / Joon-Lynn Goh -- Approaching the archive with curiosity.

Summary:

This volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional modus operandi that is rooted in a highly original artistic synthesis of a range of practices. Over the last three decades, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged ways of working to an unprecedented scale and breadth by producing complex organizational, spatial, visual, and economic forms. These often entail the production of complex infrastructures, manifested via projects such as Culture is a Verb (2018-21), The Centre for Plausible Economies (2018-ongoing), Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks (2014-ongoing) and the Eco-Nomadic School (2010-ongoing). The book follows a major mid-career exhibition at The Showroom, London, in 2021. Offering a significant addition to debates on contemporary art and architecture, social action, and public culture, Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life brings together critical reflections by internationally acclaimed contributors. Spanning a wide range of critical positions and disciplines, these include Dave Beech, Céline Condorelli, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Wapke Feenstra, Katherine Gibson, Joon-Lynn Goh, Lily Hall, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Grace Ndiritu, Gerrie van Noord, Paul O'Neill, Doina Petrescu, Gregory Sholette and THEMM!!, Kuba Szreder, Gavin Wade, Mick Wilson, Stephen Wright, and Franciska Zólyom. In addition, material derived from Böhm's international networks and projects provides an in-depth impression of the deeply ingrained collaborative and durational nature of her way of working. Photographic, diagrammatic, and typographical imagery runs through the book, demonstrating the rich visual and spatial languages embedded in Böhm's work. This visual register of the book is therefore much more than a series of illustrations and acts as a counterpoint to, and extension of, the ideas elaborated in the texts.

ISBN:

3956796268 (paperback)
9783956796265 (paperback)

Subject:

Böhm, Kathrin Criticism and interpretation.
Böhm, Kathrin Themes, motives.
Women artists Great Britain.
Femmes artistes Grande-Bretagne.
Women artists.
Great Britain

Added entries:

Noord, Gerrie van, editor.
O'Neill, Paul, 1970- editor.
Wilson, Mick, editor.
Böhm, Kathrin, artist.

Art on the scale of life

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order