— Auteurs : Markus Brüderlin, Dan Cameron, Beatrix Ruf, entretien avec Michael Elmgreen et Ingar Dragset par Coco Fusco
— Éditeur(s) : Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag
— Année : 2002
— Format : 18,50 x 24,50 cm
— Illustrations : 110 dont 58 en couleurs
— Page(s) : 148
— Langue(s) : anglais, allemand
— ISBN : 3-7757-1156-2
— Prix : 25 €
Présentation
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset have been astonishing the art world with the unusual architectural sculptures and installations of their Powerless Structures series for a number of years. A recurring theme in these works is the « White Cube », the neutral yet ideologically charged, institutionalized container for art. At the heart of their interest is the process of building as a process of development in progress.
Taking Place, their project for the Kunsthalle Zürich, focuses on just such a process. Here, they transformed the Kunsthalle into a construction site at which work by the two artists on a « permanent installation » was presented as a future exhibition situation at the Kunsthalle. Elmgreen & Dragset showed the processes of encircling the offices, tearing down and building new walls — in short, the suspended state of the reorganization of the non-public space in which art is administered and the public space in which it is presented, but before it is made available for that purpose.
Les artistes
Michael Elmgreen (born 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969 in Trondheim, Norway). The two artists have been working together since 1995. Collaboration on Powerless Structures since 1997; numerous joint and group exhibitions world wide. The artists live and work in Berlin.
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