Support Structures by Celine Condorelli

Support Structures by Celine Condorelli

Sternberg Press

October 31, 2009

BOOK LAUNCH

Céline Condorelli
SUPPORT STRUCTURES

Thursday, November 05, 2009
7 pm

Platform Garanti Istanbul
at Bilsar Building
Mesrutiyet Caddesi 90
Beyoglu, Istanbul, TR

www.sternberg-press.com

www.supportstructures.org

A manual for what bears, sustains, props and holds up.

Sternberg Press and Platform Garanti are pleased to present Support Structures by Céline Condorelli.

With essays by: Céline Condorelli, Mark Cousins, Jaime Stapleton, Andrea Phillips, Bart de Baere, Wouter Davidts, Eyal Weizman & Rony Brauman, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jan Verwoert

With works by: Michael Asher, Artist Placement Group, Can Altay, Conrad Atkinson, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Filippo Brunelleschi, Banu Cennetoglu, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Martin Beck, Cevdet Erek, Flatpack 001 (Mark and Stephen Beasley) Andrea Fraser, Buckminster Fuller, Ryan Gander, Ella Gibbs, Gareth Jones, Frederick Kiesler, Lucy Kimbell, James Langdon, El Lissitzky, Gordon Matta-Clark, Enzo Mari, Antoni Muntadas, Peter Nadin, ‘The offices of Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince & Robin Winters’, Radim Pesko, Lilly Reich, Jane Rendell, Support Structure, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kurt Vonnegut, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, Carey Young, a.o.

Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: it is a manual for those things that give support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world.

Support Structures is a critical enquiry into what constitutes “support,” and also documents the collaborative project “Support Structure” by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade. While registering and collecting reference projects in a new archive of support structures alongside its ten-phase project, different writers, thinkers, and practitioners were invited from various fields to elaborate on frameworks and work on texts, which form the theoretical backbone of the publication. The collection of contributions offers different possibilities for engaging in this unchartered territory, from propositions to projects, existing systems to ones invented for specific creative processes.

Support Structures offers support through potential methodologies, inspirations and activations for practice, and addresses important questions for art and architecture practices on forms of display, organization, articulation, appropriation, autonomy, and temporariness, and the manifestations of blindness towards them.

For details of the launch please contact platform@garanti.com.tr 


For press inquiries and orders please contact mail@sternberg-press.com.

Produced in co-production with Support Structure:
Céline Condorelli & Gavin Wade with James Langdon
October 2009, English
21 x 14.8 cm, 438 pp., 8 full-colour and 400+ two-colour ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-45-0

SUPPORT STRUCTURES
Forthcoming Publication Launches

November 16, 2009, The Showroom, London, UK
December 3, 2009, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, USA
January 5, 2010, Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, EG
January 23, 2010, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

This book was made possible through essential structural support from Platform Garanti, Istanbul, and the generous support of Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England, Essex University Gallery, London Metropolitan University, and Eastside Projects, Birmingham.

Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York

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