North East South West

by Steinbach, Haim; Kunstverein, Neuer Berliner; Ferguson, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9783775790253
• ISBN10: 377579025X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Along with Robert Gober and Jeff Koons, New York-based Haim Steinbach is one of the most renowned exponents of the late 70s art movement which endeavored to revamp the post-Duchamp tradition of ready-mades in the face of a rising wave of neo-expressionism. Steinbach has become known for his "thing altars," carefully manufactured shelves containing borrowed or purchased objects that take on new meaning in the context of their surroundings, recalling Robert Smithson's notions of "site" and "non-site." This new book in the Cantz Series documents a Berlin-specific installation by the artist. Steinbach, born to German-Jewish parents in Israel, stayed in the former East Germany for the first time, visiting families all over Berlin and borrowing individual objects or arrangements which he then transferred to an art space. In doing so the artist became the curator of a sort of group exhibition of "collected collections" which interact in surprising ways in their new space.

Table of Contents

North East South West-installation	7	(24)
Einfuhrung: Die Sprache der Gegenstande	31	(6)
Stephanie Rosenthal
Introduction: The Language of Objects	37	(4)
Haim Steinbach-Interview	41	(11)
Alexander Tolnay
Haim Steinbach-Interviewed	52	(8)
Alexander Tolnay
Das Ding sucht seine Gesellschaft
Valentine Rauer
Objekt und soziale Textur in Haim Steinbachs North East South West	60	(8)
North East South West-Video stills	68	(3)
The Thing in Search of Company
The Object and Social Texture in Haim Steinbach's North East South West	71	(8)
Objekte an der Grenze	79	(15)
Bruce Ferguson
Objects on the Border	94	(13)
Ausgewahlte Biografie/Bibliografie	107	(1)
Selected Biography/Bibliography	107