Microreview: To Dismantle



- Date
- 2020 September
- Subtitle
- Tine Melzer reviews Frauchiger, Marco. How to dismantle a bomb, 2020.
- Type
- microreview
- Author / Publisher
- Tine Melzer for NewsLibrary
- Author Info
Tine Melzer (PhD) is an artist, author and researcher with a focus on language. Recent publications include Taxidermy for Language-Animals (2016) and Blumen sind geil (2020). She teaches at the University of the Arts Bern (HKB).
- Language
English
- Also published here
Newsletter No. 26
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- Reviewed Publication
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Frauchiger, Marco. How to dismantle a bomb, MP4, 16:9, 16’ 14’’, Stereo, 2020
How does a complex political and historical context successfully inform a work of art without undermining its autonomy? Which examples show how transdisciplinary research genuinely produces trans-medial visual works? The work How to dismantle a bomb by photographer Marco Frauchiger, released in July 2020, is a great example of how research and art can conjoin naturally and un-academically. The online video was published on occasion of the CAP diploma festival at the University of the Arts Bern. Its representational format frames a set of acute questions: For one, the author’s perspective on a long-forgotten war in Laos, including its economic and social consequences, raises questions about armed conflicts; in general and in relation to the perceived distance from, yet economic proximity to, Switzerland’s weapon industry. Sharp editing, which carefully interweaves poetic imagery, physical proof, documentation, moving and still images, challenges the relationship between aesthetics and societal facts. Strikingly, the video of the physical turning of book pages interrupted by other video sequences augments the analogue medium and inventively replies to the digital exchange forced upon many of us this summer.
Publications
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2021 February
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Petra Köhle reviews Caterina Giansiracusa and Andrea Herrera. PlanteSorcières, a multidisciplinary project that started in 2018 (ongoing) at various locations and resulting in diverse publication forms.
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2021 January
Microreview: Openings
Mabe Bethônico reviews L’Origine, artist book by Angela Marzullo, with text by Sarah Zürcher. Geneva, Published by Éditions Centre de la photographie Genève and Les Éditions Ripopée, 2019.
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2020 November
Microreview: Exploring biographies and geographies of breath/lessness
Kadiatou Diallo reviews Stacy Hardy, Laila Soliman, Nancy Mounir, Neo Muyanga’s documentary performance Museum of Lungs, 2018/2019
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2020 November
Microreview: Books as Spaces for Encounters
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2020 October
Microreview: Implementing Bricolage
Denise Ziegler Reviews Tikkaoja, Oona. Everyday Anomaly Archive, 2010-2020
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2020 September
Microreview: To Dismantle
Tine Melzer reviews Frauchiger, Marco. How to dismantle a bomb, 2020.
microreviewTine Melzer for NewsLibrary -
2020 August
Microreview: Seeing Anew
Gabriella Disler reviews Tuerlinckx, Joëlle. Lexicon & WOR(L)(D)(K) in PROGRESS ? (2012)
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2020 July
Microreview: Staging Polyphony
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2020 June
Microreview: Being Precise
Markus Schwander reviews Schuck, Nicole. Valued Animals - From Wildlife Topographies to the Ecosystem Services of Marine and Alpine Fauna, (Hatje Cantz 2010 – 2020)
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Phd-Making Is My Art Practice
Notes and insights on the art PhD-experience in Switzerland
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2017 May
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Status and Perspectives on Artistic Reserach at Swiss Universities of the Arts
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2015 January
SARN Notebook : 87 questions on Artistic Research
Published by SARN in collaboration with ELIA in the frame of conference 'Economies of Aesthetics' (Basel 2015)
SARN bookletMarkus Schwander and Flavia Caviezel for SARN, in collaboration with ELIA -
2014 June
Publishing Artistic Research
Collection insights on publishing in the field based on Sarn's series of workshops from 2011-2014
SARN bookletBarnaby Drabble & Federica Martini for SARN -
2014 June
Open Source / Sharing Knowledge in Artistic Research
Based on the proceedings of the SARN workshop co-organized by HEAD and ECAV in Geneva in March, 2013
SARN bookletBarnaby Drabble & Federica Martini for SARN -
2014 June
Artistic Research : The Language Issue
Based on the SARN workshop of the same name held in 2013.
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