The Garden as Theater as Museum
texts by Chris Dercon, Dan Graham, Richard Sennett ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Rüdiger Schöttle, Chris Dercon, Frederic Migayrou, Naomi Miller, Antje von Graevenitz, Dan Graham, Johanne Lamoureux, Richard Sennett, Marianne Brouwer
- Editor(s)
- Chris Dercon
- Publication
- New York ; Cambridge, Mass. : P.S.1 ; The MIT Press, 1990
- Scope
- 176 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.
- ISBN
- 0262041057
Theatergarden Bestiarium documents an extraordinary exhibtion 'theater garden' created in 1989 by thirteen international artists at the Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, Jan. 15 - March 12, 1989, curated by Chris Dercon. The exhibition was based on a similar titled text by the German curator Rüdiger Schöttle, probing the evolution of theaters in gardens, how architecture can derive its meaning from its surroundings, and how contemporary installations evolve from picturesque gardens. The project provoked questions about contemporary exhibition-making, investigating the transformation of the Renaissance garden into museum spectacle and the consequences of the rise of the modern city and, from it, of a middle-class public for art.
- Person as subject
- Bernard Bazile, Glenn Branca, Rodney Graham, Marin Kasimir, Dan Graham, Christian Philipp Müller, Fortuyn/O'Brien, James Coleman, Ludger Gerdes, Juan Muñoz, Hermann Pitz, Alain Sechas, Jeff Wall
- Keywords
- art in public space , installation , sculpture , landscape architecture , display , curating
- Location
- Cabinet 10 - 2: Tentoonstellingsmodellen
- Remarks
- Incl. Biographies and Index.
