ed. by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Barbara Vanderlinden ; interviews Gustav Metzger, Rupret Sheldrake ...[et al.] ; text Bruno Latour ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Gustav Metzger, Rupert Sheldrake, Bruno Latour, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Barbara Vanderlinden
- Publication, year
- Köln ; Antwerpen : Domont Buchverlag ; Antwerpen Open, 1999
- Scope
- 495 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.
- ISBN
- 905846038X
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Laboratorium, organized by Antwerpen Open and Roomade, in collaboration with the Provincial Museum of Photography, Antwerp, 27 June-3 October, 1999. In 1998, preparations started for the 1999 celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Antoon van Dyck’s birth. In honour of this event, the curator Barbara Vanderlinden, Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, and Antwerpen Open, set out to create a contemporary art program in Antwerpen. This was conceived of as a response to van Dyck’s studio, which functioned as a ‘school of production’, a system also used by Peter-Paul Rubens, again in Antwerp. It is this city’s role in the development of such studios that inspired ‘Laboratorium’. The creative aspect of the curatorial role led Barbara Vanderlinden to propose an alternative to the traditional object-oriented art exhibition by creating an exhibition program that took the form of a year long, functioning artist’s studio. She fulfilled this aim by setting up a series of exceptional projects that were carried out in defunct office spaces throughout the city of Antwerp. These culminated and merged in Laboratorium, a large-scale interdisciplinary exhibition-project “in which the scientific laboratory and the artist’s studio were explored on the basis of the various concepts and disciplines”.
- Person as subject
- James Lee Byars, Rem Koolhaas, Panamarenko, Gustav Metzger, ...[et al.]
- Keywords
- photography , film , video , installation , sculpture
- Location
- Cabinet 9 - 4: Kunst stromingen en thema's
