Mixed Media

Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy

admin1 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:44:33 +0000

Exhibition

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM)
19 mars - 7 aout, 2005 | Karlsruhe, Germany
Principal Curators : Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
Pdf of the catalog (out of print)

Teaser Text:

Making Things Public

Exhibition

Description:

The exhibition Making Things Public addresses the challenge of renewing politics by applying to it the spirit of art and science. This unusual exhibition builds on the Iconoclash exhibition (ZKM 2002), which dealt with the crisis of representation in art, whereas Making Things Public tackles the problem of representation in politics.

In this pioneering project over one hundred artists, scientists, sociologists, philosophers and historians re-explore the term 'politics'. At a time in which many people doubt and despair of politics it is crucial that they should not be fobbed off with standard political responses to contemporary problems but that the question of what actually constitutes politics should be raised anew.

Downloads:

From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik (Catalogue Text, English)

Making Things Public Table of Contents (Book)

Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (Book)

Cosmocoloss: a radio-play

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:36:03 +0000

Cosmocoloss. A Global Climate Tragic Comedy

This play written in 2011, has been played the 6th december 2013 in German on the Bavarian radio under the name of Kosmokoloss: Eine Tragikomödie über das Klima und den Erdball. and in French on the 15th of November 2016 on France Culture.

Teaser Text:

Première lecture de Cosmocolosse 21-6-2011

A Play

Description:

An attempt at bringing in on stage the global climate crisis by exploring the disconnect between the dimension of the crisis and the lack of "feel" for it.

Downloads:

COSMOCOLOSSE-ANGLAIS

COSMOCOLOSSE-ALLEMAND

COSMOCOLOSSE-FRANCAIS

The Tarde Durkheim Debate

admin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:18:31 +0000

Reenactment of 1903 Debate

Colloque de Cerisy | Empirical Metaphysics
Bruno Latour (Gabriel Tarde), Bruno Karsenti (Emile Durkheim) and Louise Salmon (The Dean)
June 23 - 30, 2007; staged by Frédérique Ait-Touati, research done by Eduardo Vargas
Played again in CRASSH Cambridge with Simon Schaffer as the Dean the 14 March 2008 and finally shot in Paris with Dominique Reynié as the Dean, filmed by Martin Pavlov.
View Video Documentation of Debate (in French)

Teaser Text:

The Tarde Durkheim Debate

Reenactment

Description:

A momentous debate concerning the nature of sociology and its relation to other sciences took place between Gabriel Tarde and Emile Durkheim at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales in 1903. Unfortunately the only available record of the event is a brief overview which English readers may find in Terry Clark’s 1969 edited volume On communication and social influence (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

The present recension of the debate, therefore, is based on a script consisting of quotations from the published works of Gabriel Tarde and Emile Durkheim, arranged to form a dialogue. It will be acted out, in French, by Bruno Latour (Gabriel Tarde), Bruno Karsenti (Emile Durkheim), and Simon Schaffer (The Dean), under the direction of Frédérique Aït-Touati. An English translation of the script, with references to the works from which extracts are drawn, is provided here to help the audience follow the debate.

Downloads:

The Debate transcribed in English

The Debate French version

Video Documentation of Debate

Paris: Invisible City

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:17:15 +0000

Online Project

Launched 2004
Included in Airs de Paris Exhibition, Centre Pompidou
Bruno Latour (Text), Emilie Hermant (Photo), Patricia Reed (Screen Design)
View online

Teaser Text:

Paris: Invisible City

Sociological Web Opera

Description:

A Sociological Web Opera.

Downloads:

Paris: Invisible City Text in English

View Paris: Ville Invisible Online

Rhetoric and demonstration

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:41:47 +0000

A series of lectures

Centre Pompidou, Paris
Mai July 2010 | Event Online
Interlocutors: Bruno Latour, Olafur Eliasson, Elie During, Jimena Canales

Teaser Text:

Rhetoric and demonstration

Reenactment at Beaubourg

Description:

Le débat entre Einstein et Bergson le 6 avril 1922 s'est très mal passé. Einstein a dit que Bergson ne comprenait rien à la physique. Bergson, quant à lui, voyait chez Einstein une philosophie, et même une métaphysique, dont l'élaboration laissait à désirer. L'avantage de refaire les conférences du passé, c'est qu'on peut les infléchir. Grâce à deux spécialistes de Bergson et de l'histoire de la physique, Elie During (Nanterre) et Jimena Canales (Harvard), nous allons donc reprendre le dialogue comme si Einstein et Bergson avaient eu la vraie discussion qu'ils n'ont pas eue en 1922 sur leurs métaphysiques respectives. Est-ce le monde de Bergson qui inclut celui d'Einstein ou le monde d'Einstein qui inclut celui de Bergson ? Afin d'arbitrer le débat, nous demanderons à l'artiste Olafur Eliasson, dont toutes les œuvres portent sur cette question d'inclusion et d'exclusion de l'art et de la science, de nous expliquer comment il s'y prendrait pour composer la relation du monde et des sciences.

Video Documentation of Event

May 6, 2010 17:00: L'art et la parole : rhétorique de la commande Avec Bruno Latour, François Hers et Xavier Douroux.

May 19, 2010 19:30: L'âge de l'éloquence Avec Bruno Latour, Eugène Green et Frédérique Aït-Touati

June 9, 2010 18:30: La voix et l'éloquence Avec Bruno Latour et Philippe Leroux, Valérie Philippin

June 21, 2010 17:00: Démocratie et démonstration Avec Bruno Latour, Sir Geoffrey Lloyd et Reviel Netz

June 21, 2010 19:30: le débat Bergson / Einstein Avec Bruno Latour, Olafur Eliasson, Elie During, Jimena Canales

June 23, 2010 19:30: Le théâtre de la preuve Avec Bruno Latour et Rod Dickinson

June 30, 2010 19:30: Le Manifeste Cyborg Avec Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway et Isabelle Stengers

July 1, 2010 19:30 Pour une Ecole des arts politiques : Manifeste compositionniste avec Bruno Latour

Iconoclash: Beyond the Image-Wars in Science, Religion and Art

admin1 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:58:24 +0000

Exhibition

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM)
May 2002 | Karlsruhe, Germany
http://www.iconoclash.de
Curators: Peter Galison, Dario Gamboni, Joseph Leo Koerner, Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Weibel

Teaser Text:

Iconoclash

Exhibition

Description:

An international exhibit which has opened, for a duration of three months, the 3rd of May 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany, and which was housed and curated by ZKM (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) under the direction of Peter Weibel.

Downloads:

Catalogue Table of Contents & Introductory Essay (English)

Iconoclash Catalogue at MIT Press