Art and society 1972-2022-2072 : from the art for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 to artistic design concepts of the twenty-first century / edited by Elisabeth Hartung and Anton Biebl ; translation from the German, Amy Klement and Steven Lindberg, Thomas Mader.

This publication accompanies a conference reflecting on the unrealized avant-garde artworks planned for the 1972 Munich Olympic games, many of which were cancelled following the tragic assassination of several Israeli athletes.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hartung, Elisabeth (Editor)
Biebl, Anton (Editor)
Klement, Amy (Translator)
Lindberg, Steven (Translator)
Mader, Thomas (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2023]
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Physical Description:351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
From the art for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 to artistic design concepts of the twenty-first century
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Anton Biebl
  • About this publication / Elisabeth Hartung
  • Part 1: Visions and reality 1972. Visions and reality: art for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich / Elisabeth Hartung
  • The Olympic Part and Olympic Village in Munich as a planned and lived utopia / Kay Schiller
  • Architecture landscape art: situational design as a total artwork / Elisabeth Spieker
  • Never give up! The proposals from American artists for the art program of the Olympic Games 1972 / Corinna Thierolf
  • Laszlo Glozer and Christian Kandzia in conversation with Heinz Schütz against art
  • Control circuits and feedback loops: on the cybernetic aesthetic of summer Olympic Games in 1972 / Daniela Stöppel
  • The Spielstrasse in the context of art around 1972 and its relevance to the future / Elisabeth Hartung
  • See-hearing, hear-seeing: Josef Anton Riedl and new music / Michael Lentz
  • On Rainbow by Otto Piene: a sign of hope in orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet / Barbara Könches
  • Fragments, or Just Moments: politics of memory in the work of Tony Cokes in the context of the Kunstverein München / Maurin Dietrich
  • GLOBAL ART: the Olympic exhibition Weltkulturen und moderne Kunst / Heinz Schütz
  • Questions for Manfred Weihe the children and youth center of the exhibition Weltkulturen und moderne Kunst: a new dawn in art and museum pedagogy
  • Playing (in the) city: from the KEKS Group's "Actionist Art Pedagogy" to the play concept for the Olympic Village / Tanja Baar
  • Intermezzo 2022. The Festival of the Games, Sports and the Arts 2022 / Elisabeth Hartung
  • Photos of the Festival of the Games, Sports and the Arts 2022 / Jörg Koopmann .
  • Part 2: Art and society 2022. The one flag / Lorena Herrera Rashid
  • Artistic interventions within a colonial museum: Luke Willis Thompson's Museum in Reverse / Clémentine Deliss
  • Palan & Pakghor / Britto Arts Trust
  • Cultural tools: on the project Louise by WochenKlausur / Larissa Kikol
  • we come to / Alice Creischer
  • Living in the present: a look at Diarenis Calderón Tartabull's work with the Cuban Afroqueer collective Nosotrys (WT) / Mamy Garcia Mommertz
  • Longue Durée: the marriage of technology, art, and science in service of the environment / Han Ulrich Obrist
  • Don Bosco Earth Campus, Tatale, Ghana / Anna Heringer
  • Training of awareness and critical thinking: The Awareness Muscle Trraining Center by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel / Michael Buhrs
  • The Garden in Data Clouds: on the theme of touching in the works of Sui Jianguo / Thomas Eller
  • Empathy / Jasmine Ellis
  • Our performance is not yet over: on ATEM by Mehtap Baydu / Rebekka Endler
  • He Who Hopes, Dies Singing: on Johanna Kappauf as a circus princess in The Repairof a Revue, from Stories and Themes by Alexander Kluge / Barbara Mundel
  • Invitation of the Soft Machine and Her Angry Body Parts / Jakob Lena Knebl
  • Panic Rooms / M+M
  • The path of joy: on the future prospects of art in the works of the choreographer Trajal Harrell / Tobias Staab
  • GONOGO / Goshka Macuga
  • How to surround yourself with things: Irena Haiduk's Healing Complex (2018-ongoing) / Britta Peters.
  • Art-education-remembrance: an art project led by Nina Prader with young people at Twelve Months-Twelve Names: 50 Years Olympic Massacre Munich / Angela Libal
  • Freddy Mamani Silverstre: an architect of the future producing a history of the present / Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz
  • The archive of the future: on the project Die Bücher by Annette Kelm / Mirjam Zadoff
  • On shared experiences: Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room / Lucas Zwirner
  • Animals of the Milky Way and others / Alexander Kluge
  • On being worth more than gold: Selma Selman's growing clain on the not-yet / Catherine Nichols
  • Fountain / Cao Yu
  • Thoughts on Moving Off the Land by Joan Jonas / Julienne Lorz
  • Disarm music box / Pedro Reyes
  • Atmospheric activism: air as an embattled commons in the art of forensic architecture and Amy Balkin / Mareike Schwarz
  • On OK Solar: sustainable urban design in the department of industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Angelika Nollert
  • TAM-TAM Olympics tour / Matthias Stadler
  • Creating new worlds: on Headrest I-V by Salad Hilowie / Sagal Farah
  • "We can all be like sunflowers": an environmental art of Agnes Denes / Joanna Warsza
  • Social fountain / Raumfragen Neuperlach
  • The new unfinished quality: how generative computer programs are changing art-and society too / Hanno Rauterberg
  • Soft Democracies / raumlaborberlin
  • The Forest Does Not Employ Me Anymore by Cooking Sections and Forager Collective: on a collective exploratory design practice that brings together Indigenous, scientific, and artistic forms of experience and knowledge / Susanne Witzgall
  • The Avatar Robot Café by Ory Laboratory: on communication between people with and without disabilities / Gerfried Stocker
  • Find Face / Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader
  • Sensitizing to historigraphy: on the Colors of Grey series by Thu Van Tran / Rüdiger Schöttle and Johanna Singer
  • Pionea / Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten.