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Stephen Willats : languages of dissent

Title
Stephen Willats : languages of dissent / edited by Heike Munder ; Heike Munder [and three others].
Publication
  • Zurich : Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Willats, Stephen, 1943-
  • Munder, Heike, 1969-
  • Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, host institution
Description
230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 28 cm
Summary
"The work of the British conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. London, 1943) interrogates structures of community life and social interaction. Exploring the modular architecture of social housing projects, he spotlights forms of individual creative adaptation that defy the uniformity and functionality of the spaces. Such dissent with normative parameters is especially Interesting to Willats because it is where individuality reveals itself and self-determination is articulated. He finds similar modes of nonconformist expression in London's experimental underground club scene and in places on the urban periphery where teenagers seek escape from institutional or conformist pressures. His understanding of what art is and does is reflected in a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice that takes inspiration from sciences beyond the realm of art. Since the 1960s, his work has been influenced by cybernetics, the study of reciprocal relations in dynamic systems, which helps him think through autonomous forms of organization and their structures of control and communication. Providing him with both a method and an aesthetic vocabulary, it is fundamental to his redefinition of the social function and agency of art. Exhibition: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (25.05.2019 - 18.08.2019)."--
Uniform Title
  • Stephen Willats.
  • Stephen Willats. German.
Alternative Title
Languages of dissent
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Stephen Willats - Languages of Dissent" at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (May 25 - August 18, 2019).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Texts in English and German.
Contents
Stephen Willats: languages of dissent / Heike Munder -- Edge-triggers / Bronac Ferran -- From the day into the night and the night into the day / Andrew Wilson -- Diagram as drug / John Kelsey.
Call Number
JQF 20-871
ISBN
  • 3858816485
  • 9783858816481
OCLC
1104071129
Title
Stephen Willats : languages of dissent / edited by Heike Munder ; Heike Munder [and three others].
Publisher
Zurich : Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Texts in English and German.
Added Author
Willats, Stephen, 1943- Works. Selections.
Munder, Heike, 1969- editor, author.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, host institution.
Added Title
Stephen Willats.
Stephen Willats. German.
Research Call Number
JQF 20-871
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