'Throughout history, follies have been used widely in architecture, visual arts, and literature as a provocation, a frivolous diversion or strategic place of madness and satire freed from the constraints of societal norms. Since their initial inception in landscape gardens, follies have been used as medium or object, oscillating between aesthetic autonomy and social-political potential. Placed in contemporary cities, follies become critical tools to test the constitution and transformative potential of public space.
Revisiting some of these historic sites, a series of eight newly commissioned follies forge links between every day uses and political practice linking contemporary Gwangju and a global political arena. The book takes the form of a glossary, situating the eight new Follies within a broader cultural discourse and presents the projects curated by Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, and Eui Young Chun as “foolosophy.”
With follies by David Adjaye & Taiye Selasi, Ai Weiwei, Rem Koolhaas & Ingo Niermann, Raqs Media Collective, Do-Ho Suh, Superflex, Eyal Weizman.' (from the publisher's website)
With contributor biographies. Includes separate booklet featuring photo essay by Bas Princen on the eight new follies in the city of Gwangju.
Onsite
English
2013
195
9783775735537
2
catalogue
Foreword - LEE Yongwoo, 이용우
Introduction - Nikolaus HIRSCH, Philipp MISSELWITZ, Euiyoung CHUN
Antagonists - Anthony VIDLER
Art Alone? - Horst BREDEKAMP
Autodidact's Transport - Raqs Media Collective
Background Music - Joan DIDION
Backslash - April LAMM
Barricade - Naeem MOHAIEMEN
Cannibalism - Sam JACOB
Cubic Meter Food Cart - AI Weiwei, 艾未未
Disaster - HU Fang, 胡昉
Dogged - Caruso ST JOHN, Thomas DEMAND
Emancipation - Stephen SQUIBB
Form, Follies, Function - Hans HOLLEIN
Gwangju River Reading Room - David ADJAYE, Taiye SELASI
Haircut vs Wig - Marion VON OSTEN
Hameau - April LAMM
Horizon - Philip URSPRUNG
In-between Hotel - Doho SUH, 서도호, Suh Architects
Instant Monuments - CHO Minsuk, 조민석
Interrogation - Felicity D. SCOTT
Lunacy - Franco BERARDI
Magnet - Hans Ulrich OBRIST
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Memory Box - Seokhong GO, Mihee KIM
Parade - Etcetera
Participation - Markus MIESSEN
Pedestal - Can ALTAY
Picturesque - Barry BERGDOLL
Power Toilets/UNESCO - Superflex
Psychogeography - Peter CARL
Quixotic - Nancy ADAJANIA
Roundabout Revolution - Eyal WEIZMAN, Samaneh MOAFI
Staircase for Scarface - Bernard TSCHUMI
Sugar Loaf - Barbara JONES
Transfer - Erik GÖNGRICH
Trespassing - Cultural Agencies
Typofolly - CHOI Sunah, 최선아, Markus WEISBECK
Unreason - Shumon BASAR
Vote - Rem KOOLHAAS, Ingo NIERMANN
Watershed - Mike BOUCHET
Gwangju Folly II
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