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Jahresring #65: What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love?

Editors

Nicolaus Schafhausen and Brigitte Oetker

Date

2019

Publisher

Sternberg Press

Format

Periodicals

ISBN

978-3-95679-473-5

Length

240 pp

Genre

Arts Writing

Description

Place-based projects around the world are drawing increasing attention to the pillars of art, design, and economics as important players in the development and re-development of the so-called periphery. This publication poses the question: how plausible and effective are these ventures?

This year’s Jahresring is locally specific: Fogo Island, an island of approximately 2,500 inhabitants located off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A centuries-old cod fishing settlement, the community’s livelihood was nearly decimated in the mid-twentieth century due to industrial overfishing. The island is now experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural transformation, due in part to a recent series of art, social business, and asset-based community development initiatives. Now, Fogo Island stands as an example of the potential (but also the contradictions) of contemporary alliances between art, design, and social entrepreneurship.

What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love? includes critical texts by Fabrizio Gallanti, Bruce Mau, Alexandra McIntosh, Chantal Pontbriand, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Monika Szewczyk; conversations between Zita Cobb and Liam Gillick; Brigitte Oetker, Helke Bayrle and Thomas Bayrle; Silke Otto-Knapp and Janice Kerbel; Willem de Rooij and Kitty Scott; Todd Saunders and Roger Bundschuh ; and is lavishly illustrated with an array of color photography, installation views, and images of artist’s works.

Softcover, perfect-bound, colour.

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