Peter Noever

Transcripts of lectures, dialog discussions and roundtables held at the symposium. Participants include Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Hans Belting, Lynne Cooke, James Cuno, Pavel Liška, Gerhard Merz, Hans Ulrich Obrist and others.

The Discursive Museum

Gordon Matta-Clark

Works by Gordon Matta-Clark : 17 November 1997-18 January 1998, Schindler House L.A.

Anarchitecture

Documents and Manifestos: Vienna Architecture Conference

The End of Architecture?

Kimberli Meyer

... "calls upon leading creative thinkers to address urgent questions about the future of the contemporary city. Contributing architects, artists, designers, and urban scholars from around the globe consider the city from a variety of positions and posittheir unique and inspiring visions"--Page 4 of cover.

Urban Future Manifestos

Bertha Pappenheim's collections at the MAK

Lace and so on -

Ulrike Scholda

"The company of J. & L. Lobmeyr (established 1823 in Vienna) was the leading glass manufacturer of the Habsburg monarchy and known for highest quality and elaborate designs." "The MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art holds one of the most important collections of Lobmeyr glassware from the 19th century. This unique collection of exquisite pieces was for the first time fully researched and recorded in this catalogue of holdings with detailed information, illustrations, and comparative examples. Valuable background information about the company and general developments of the Austrian glass industry of the period make this catalogue an indispensable reference for collectors and museum experts."--BOOK JACKET.

Between Tradition and Innovation : Nineteenth-century Glassware from the MAK Collection

J. & L. Lobmeyr

Focusing on pieces from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this volume draws on the world's largest collection of J. & L. Lobmeyr glass, which resides in the MAK. Situated at the interface of art and industry, the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art has, from the time of its foundation, been a partner to J. & L. Lobmeyr. As an international glass manufacturer, the company has always sought dialogue with artists to produce glass to the highest technical and artistic standards. This catalogue of holdings is an illustrative and scientific survey of the MAK's representative collection of Lobmeyr glassware of the 20th and 21st centuries with detailed information, photos and comparative examples. The volume documents the company's strategies and stages up until today, offering a comprehensive and up-to-date reference for glass lovers and experts.

Gläser aus der MAK-Sammlung 20./21. Jahrhundert / Glassware from the MAK Collektion 20th/21st century

J. & L. Lobmeyr. Zwischen Vision und Realität / Between Vision and Reality

Evi Untitled

Schindler by MAK

Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Granular Synthesis

NoiseGate-M6

Tulga Beyerle

Elke Krystufek

"Drawing, photography, sculpture, video and, again and again, text overlap, are juxtaposed, mutually influence each other, and eventually defy clear-but categorization. In the end, this complexity and intensity is an expression of the strength and lively energy of the artist, whose intensive work of the exhibition LIQUID LOGIC. The Height of Knowledge and Speed of Thought is presented here for the first time; an exhibition in which the artist addresses and explores the subjects of religion and self-sacrifice, survival and the possibility of disappearance, collection strategies, and her own position as a female contemporary artist in relation to the museum."--BOOK JACKET.

The Height of Knowledge and the Speed of Thought

Elke Krystufek Liquid Logic

Anthony Vidler

Lebbeus Woods

Manuel De Landa

"This publication - published for the exhibition of the same name is the MAK Vienna - documents the various works comprising the System Wien project. It develops an idea that the making of architecture can be understood as the organization of energy. The project explores how energy relations in public and private city spaces might be represented tectonically in the form of drawings and installations; how existing energy relations in the city can be changed by the input of new energy in the form of highly temporary spatial interventions; and how the future of the city need not depend for creative energy input on the development of building projects requiring large capital investments and institutional approval, but rather on the redistribution of energy at the human scale of the street and the room."--BOOK JACKET.

... Published on the Occasion of the Exhibition, MAK Vienna Wien, 29.06. - 16.10.2005

Lebbeus Woods, System Wien

Around the middle of the 19th century, so called 'antler furniture' was often found in Alpine hunting lodges. These 'trophies' made from hunted animals are seen today as an aberration of rustic conviviality. In modern settings animal materials have also been used ranging from classics of modern interior design from the 1920s that use animal fur as upholstery to ironic antler furniture pastiches from the 1980s, and the application of animal materials for furniture-like objects in contemporary art and design. 'The field of zoology has long supplied the arts and crafts sector with a plethora of sundry materials. The numerous antlers and horns are to be mentioned primarily in this context, which do not merely fill all of the hunting lodges and other houses belonging to keen huntsman but are also to be encountered in the homes of people who have never held a rifle, and at best know how to carve a haunch of venison with the necessary respect.' (Gustav Pazaurek, Good and Bad Taste in Arts and Crafts, 1912)

Furniture as trophy

Edited by Peter Noever. Text by Bert Fragner, Barbara Frischmuth, Salman Rushdie, Wheeler M. Thackston.

Global Lab

Chris Burden

Burden has a love-hate relationship with the machine: Suspended from the ceiling of the gallery or presented in glorious isolation, the toy-like machine becomes an object of fear and worship, however ironically, a mysterious idol to be propitiated and venerated, even if it no longer works. Thus art makes the machine benign by turning into a strange toy. It masters the machine in a playful, Machiavellian act of homage to it. Burden implicitly sets the cunning of the artist against the engineer who masterminded the machine, implying that the artist can magically undo the human damage the latter unwittingly did with his machine.

beyond the limits

"With contributions by Hanna Egger, Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Rainald Franz, Waltraud Neuwirth and Nina Claudia Trauth, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Ernst Ploil, Anne-Katrin Rossberg, August Ruhs, Nikolaus Schaffer, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Nancy J. Troy, Angela Volker, and Christian Witt-Doring." "Dagobert Peche (1887-1923) was one of the key figures of the Austrian arts and crafts movement. Along with Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, Peche determined the character of the Wiener Werkstatte with his designs. Hoffmann, who first hired Peche as his assistant but was later strongly influenced by him, wrote after Peche's death in 1923: "Dagobert Peche was Austria's greatest genius in ornamentation since the days of the Baroque...All of Germany has experienced a new stylistic epoch thanks to Peche's designs." The contribution made by Peche to decorative arts is now being given the critical attention it deserves, especially against the backdrop of postmodernism. Peche's extravagant use of materials, imaginative eclecticism, formal boldness, courageous playfulness, and decisive instinct are all indicative of his creative brillance." "This illustrated book aims to expand the understanding of Austrian arts and crafts at the turn of the twentieth century and to give Peche's work - which ranges from interior and exhibition design to furniture, fashion and textile design, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewelry, and wallpaper - its proper due in this rich context."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte

Gottfried Semper

Edited by Peter Noever. Text by Peter Noever, Andrew Benjamin, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Isabella Nicka.

Peter Noever

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