Total Abstraction
<p>This issue of <em>OnCurating, Total Abstraction</em> began in 2011 as one of the manifestations of the exhibition project <em>Abstract Possible. The Zurich Test</em>, which was held at White Space in Zurich between May and June 2011. The exhibition was curated by Maria Lind and mediated and produced by students in the ZHdK Postgraduate Programme in Curating. <em>Abstract Possible</em> explored different key characteristics of abstraction – intended as formal, economic and “withdrawal.” It travelled in a variety of forms to different venues, before arriving for its last episode in Stockholm between January 2011 and April 2012, where it was presented at Tensta Konsthall, Bukowskis Auction House and the Centre for Fashion Studies at the University of Stockholm. This issue began as a close collaboration between the students Lindsey V. Sharman (now curator for the University of Calgary in the Founders’ Gallery at The Military Museum, Calgary) and Amber Hickey (now a PhD researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz). The material was then reviewed and discussed by Dorothee Richter and Silvia Simoncelli, both lecturers at the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zurich, alongside a workshop on “Curating and Art Market(s)” in September 2013…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall
Editors: Amber Hickey, Dorothee Richter, Lindsey V. Sharman, Silvia Simoncelli
Contributors: Liam Gillick, Goldin+Senneby, Wade Guyton, Amber Hickey, Maria Lind, Damian Navarro, Roberto Nigro, Véronique Ribordy, Dorothee Richter, Meyer Shapiro, Lindsey V. Sharman, Silvia Simoncelli, Tommy Støckel, Stefan Wagner
Interviewer: Melanie Büchel, Marina Lopes Coelho, Silvia Simoncelli
Translators: Mark Kyburz, Silvia Simoncelli, Carte Blanche, Judith Rosenthal
Editorial Assistant: Amber Hickey
Proofreader: Amber Hickey, Lindsey V. Sharman
Designer: Biotop 3000
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904