Roger Ballen Photography. Roger Ballen Photography. Tomás Saraceno. So how can we have both networks and spheres? How do we avoid the pitfalls of a globalization that has no real globe in which to place everything? In a work presented at the Venice Biennale in 2009, Tomás Saraceno provided a great, and no doubt unintended, metaphor for social theory. In an entire room inside the Biennale's main pavilion, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web (2008) consisted of carefully mounted elastic connectors that produced the shape of networks and spheres.
If you were to avoid the guards' attentive gaze and slightly shake the elastic connectors—strictly forbidden—your action would reverberate quickly through the links and points of the network paths, but much more slowly through the spheres. This is not to say that spheres are made from different stuff, as if we must choose between habitation and connection, between local and global, or indeed between Sloterdijk and, let's say, actor-network theory.
Read less. S A B I N E P I G A L L E ---- A R T W O R K ---- Beauty and the Book:... Several great reasons to pick up a book: These artists are bringing literature to life. Clockwise from top left: "The Book of the Lost"(2011) by Su Blackwell; "Grolier" (2005) by Brian Dettmer; "Little Red Riding Hood" (detail) (2010) by Su Blackwell; "Paper Manipulation 1" (2002) and "Butterflies" (2012) both by Louisa Boyd. Recently we’ve highlighted the work of artists breaking ground in various media, working with everything from fish parts to scrap metal. Paper has also made a comeback, but not in the traditional sense - artists like Louisa Boyd, Brian Dettmer and Su Blackwell are using books as a medium, lending a novel perspective (pun intended) to the concept of artistic narrative. In this photo-essay, we allow ourselves to be happily consumed by the story.
Boyd’s own sketchbooks inspired her to create works from the pages themselves. Many of Boyd's book works reflect themes in nature. Boyd approaches topics that are embodied by the tomes she reconstructs. Site officiel de l'artiste Hubert Duprilot. Och teatr • ETAM CRU. IRMA HASELBERGER. Olivier DERESSE.
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