Critical laboratory : the writings of Thomas Hirschhorn / Thomas Hirschhorn ; edited by Lisa Lee and Hal Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschhorn, Thomas.

Contributor:

Lee, Lisa, 1978- editor.

Foster, Hal, editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Hirschhorn, Thomas--Themes, motives.

Hirschhorn, Thomas.

Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

xvi, 41 pages pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Contents:

Statements and Letters 1

Less Is Less, More Is More (1995) 1

Fifty-Fifty (1993) 5

Moins (1993) 7

Les Plaintifs, Les Betes, Les Politiques (1993) 9

Lay-Out (1993) 11

My Videos (1993) 13

The New Videos (1994) 15

The Musée de l'art brut in Lausanne (1993) 18

Letter to Coraly (On Joseph Beuys and "Capital") (1994) 20

Am I Casting Pearls Before Swine? And Why? (1994) 23

What I Want (1994) 27

Letter to Thierry (On Formalism) (1994) 29

Letter to Konstantin (On "Political Correctness") (1995) 32

Me and the Military (1998) 34

Letter to Pascale (On Berlin) (1994) 36

"Direct Sculptures" (2000) 39

"Kiosks" (2000) 41

"Monuments" (2003) 45

"Altars" (2003/2006) 47

Letter to Véronique (On Writing, Judging, Reading, Publishing) (2000) 50

Letter to Laurence and Hans-Ulrich (On Remaining Alert) (2000) 53

I Will No Longer Exhibit in Switzerland (2003) 56

Letter to Julia et al. (There Is No Ideal Place for Art) (2005) 58

Works on Paper (2006) 61

Artist Lectures (2007) 63

I Will Exhibit in My Homeland Again (2007) 65

Why "Where Do I Stand?" and Why "What Do I Want?" (2008) 67

Doing Art Politically: What Does This Mean? (2008) 72

"Spectrum of Evaluation" (2009) 79

"Force Majeure" (2009) 82

For the First Time (About Andy Warhol) (2010) 83

Double Happiness (On Intellectual Property) (2010) 85

Letter to Nancy and Richard (My Guggenheim Dilemma) (2011) 87

Letter to Elizabeth (Inventing My Own Terms) (2010) 89

Why Is It Important-Today-to Show and Look at Images of Destroyed Human Bodies? (2012) 99

Letter to the French Minister of Culture and Communication (2012) 105

33 Ausstellungen Im Öffentlichen Raum 1998-1989 107

Reproduction and Translation of 33 Ausstellungen im Öffentlichen Raum 1998-1989 107

Projects 159

About My Exhibition at Hôpital Ephémère (Why I Chose This Exhibition as My "First Exhibition") (1992) 159

Regarding My Exhibition at Rueil-Malmaison (1992) 163

99 Sacs plastiques (Dépót) (1994) 165

Regarding My Exhibition of Wall-Display, Rosa Tombola, Saisie, Lay-Out (1988-1994) at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (1994) 169

Berliner Wasserfall mit Robert Walser Tränen (1995) 172

Letter to Matthias (Regarding Virus-Ausstellung) (1996) 176

The Bilbao Failure (1996) 180

Lascaux III (1997) 183

Skulptur-Sortier-Station (1997) 187

Letter to Alison (Regarding Skulptur-Sortier-Station) (2000) 193

Spinoza Monument (1999) 195

Critical Laboratory, Project for "Mirror's Edge" (1999) 199

World Airport (1999) 201

Jumbo Spoons (1999) 207

The Matter of Location (Regarding the Deleuze Monument) (2000) 209

Letter to Hervé Laurent and Nathalie Wetzel (Regarding the Deleuze Monument) (2000) 213

Regarding the End of the Deleuze Monument (2000) 217

Letter to Bice (Regarding Wirtschaftslandschaft Davos) (2001) 221

Letter to the Residents of the Friedrich Wöhler Housing Complex (Regarding the Bataille Monument) (2002) 225

Letter to Lothar Kannenberg (Regarding the Bataille Monument) (2002) 229

Letter to Iris (Reflections on the Bataille Monument) (2002) 231

Doppelgarage (2002) 241

Chalet Lost History (2003) 243

Letter to Clare (Regarding Chalet Lost History) (2005) 247

Regarding Hotel Democracy and U-Lounge (2003) 251

Swiss-Swiss Democracy (2004) 255

The Musée Précaire Albinet (2004) 259

Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress (2005) 263

"Anschool" (2005) 269

Superficial Engagement (2005) 271

Letter to Sabine (Regarding Superficial Engagement) (2006) 275

Letter to Frederic (Regarding "Concretion") (2006) 279

The Procession (2006) 283

Concept Car (2007) 287

Power Tools (2007) 291

Ur-Collage (2008) 295

The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival (2009) 299

"Precarious Theater" (2009) 303

Théátre Précaire for "Ce qui vient" (2009) 307

Regarding Théátre Précaire and Théátre Précaire 2 (2010) 312

Untere Kontrolle (2011) 315

Crystal of Resistance (2011) 319

Interviews 327

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: An Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn (2003, Published 2005) 327

Mission: "Tenir Le Siège": Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn by Jade Lindgaard and Jean-Max Colard (2004) 355

Becoming One's Own Museum: Conversation Between Thomas Hirschhorn and François Piron (2006, Edited and Published 2009) 359

Conversation: Presupposition of the Equality of Intelligences and Love of the Infinitude of Thought: An Electronic Conversation Between Thomas Hirschhorn and Jacques Rancière (2009-2010) 371

François Piron: Interview with Thomas Hirschhorn (2010) 381.

Notes:

"An OCTOBER Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401) and index.

Contains:

Hirschhorn, Thomas. Less is less, more is more.

ISBN:

9780262019255

0262019256

OCLC:

854760485