Displaced Fractures
On the Break Lines of Architecture and its Bodies = Über die Bruchlinien von Architekturen und ihren Körpern
texts by Heike Munder, Thomas D. Trummer, Karsten Harries, Holger Birkholz

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Author(s)

Heike Munder, Thomas D. Trummer, Karsten Harries, Holger Birkholz

Publication

Zürich : migros museum für gegenwartskunst, 2011

Scope

112 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

9783037641774

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The catalogue authors examine and enlarge on the basis of the in the represented artists the discourse between sculpture, installation and architecture and their reciprocal effects Starting point for the debate is established by the medical term Displaced Fractures. It describes how bone fracture sites reveal themselves elsewhere to that of the major stress site. The works discussed in this catalogue can be described with this phenomena and can be read as surrogates of the human body.

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Keywords

body , architecture , installation , sculpture

Location

Cabinet 11 - 5: Installatiekunst ; sculptuur

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Incl. artists' Biographies.