Catalogue of exhibition entitled totalstadt. beijing case. high speed urbanisierung in China at ZKM / Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe in 2007.

'High-speed urbanisation. Nowhere else in the world do cities undergo such rapid change than in China. totalstadt. beijing case represents the result of a scholarship project initiated by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Peking which was carried out in Beijing, in the summer of 2005. Over a period lasting four months, twelve artists from Germany and China used the city as their 'laboratory' for the artistic examination of the cultural dimensions of high-speed urbanisation in Beijing. The present publication is designed as a handbook. A total of 26 authors followed the programme's concept, the key understanding of which is that scientific-theoretical analysis and artistic perception constitute complimentary forms of knowledge. Whereas part one presents the results of the »Beijing Case« artists and includes the works of additional Chinese and German artists, parts two and three provide background information on architecture and urbanisation, as well as on various aspects of art and culture in Beijing.' - extracted from text on the backcover.

With preface by Hortensia Volckers, Alexander Farenholtz, Ulrich Nowak, and Gregor Jansen

Other participating artists include, Heike Baranowsky, Thomas Bayrle, Christine de la Garenne + Via Lewandowsky, Mara Kurotschka, Ingo Niermann, Susanne Röckel, Barbara Klemm, Antje Majewski

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Onsite

editor
Location code
EX.GER.TBC
Language

English, 

German

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

416

ISBN / ISSN

9783865601537

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Historical Approximation

The last 100 Years: Architecture in China - Eduard KOEGEL

Beijing: A Dialogue between Imperial Legacy and Hyper-Modernism - ZHU Jianfei

The Temporary Amnesia of the City of Beijing - HO Echo Yinsin, 何燕茜

Beijing Old Town

A Critical Review of Urban Conservation and Redevelopment in Beijing - ZHANG Jie

The Disappearance of Beijing's Old Town - WANG Jun, 王軍

The Story of Zhang Jinli - OU Ning, 歐寧

High-Speed Urbanization

Beijing: The Uprooted Metropolis - SHI Jian, 史建

Chinese Urbanism - MA Qingyun, 馬清運

Beijing: The Last Superstition - XI Chuan, 西川

Simultaneous Realities: Urban Villages in China's Expanding Metropolises - Brabara MUNCH, Michael ARRI

Urbanization between Control and Campaign - Eduard KOEGEL

Houses Change the City: Beijing's Fission - HAN Linfei

Green China - Nicholas MAURICE

Architectural Concepts

Interview with Chang Yung Ho - Hans Ulrich OBRIST

Interview with Ai Wei Wei - Ingo NIERMANN

Made in China - CCTV China Central Television - Ole SCHEEREN

Lifestyle Communes in China or Collect the Art of Architecture - Brabara MUNCH

Spaces of Art in Beijing

Brief History of Beijing - WU Hung, 巫鴻

The Transformation of Contemporary Art in China: Independent Art Spaces - QIU Zhijie, 邱志傑

The Schism of Art? - Ursula PANHANS-BUEHLER

Aspect of Urbanization in Contemporary Art in China

The Urban Spectacle - GAO Minglu, 高名潞

Longing for Paradise, negotiating with the Real Looking at the Chinese art scene today - HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如

Spaces of Urban Experience - Birgit HOPFENER

Booming Beijing/Art and Culture - Booming Beijing

China's Cradle and City of Pilgrims of Modern Art - LENG Lin, 冷林

From 3000-member Think Tank to 'Beijing Case' - Carol Yinghua LU, 盧迎華

Interview with Gran Yi - Ingo NIERMANN

Beijing's New Music After SARS - YAN Jun, 顏峻

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