In several theoretical essays, dialogues on collaborative projects and reflections on his own work, the architect Nikolaus Hirsch explores the critical transformations of contemporary space and its effects on spatial practice. On the threshold to disciplines such as visual and performative arts (?Planning the Unpredictable? with William Forsythe) he questions the notion of ?boundary?: as a phenomenon of social and political discourse, as a conflict between collaboration and authorship, as well as a physical limitation that negotiates between stable and unstable conditions.Nikolaus Hirsch is an architect based in Frankfurt am Main, who teaches at the Architectural Association in London and at UPenn in Philadelphia. His work includes the internationally acclaimed Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, the European Kunsthalle in Cologne and United Nations Plaza (with Anton Vidokle) in Berlin. He has curated ErsatzStadt: Reprasentationen des Urbanen at the Berlin Volksbuhne. His work has been awarded a number of prizes, including the World Architecture Award 2002, and has been shown in exhibitions such as New German Architecture in Berlin, Utopia Station at the Venice Biennial and Can Buildings Curate, AA London/Storefront Gallery in New York.

On Boundaries (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Hirsch, Nikolaus

History & Criticism

Lukas & Sternberg, New York

Documentation of an on-site art exhibition response to the Fukishima nuclear disaster, which won't be seen until the area is no longer contaminated. Documenting an invisible, inaccessible exhibition within the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone. The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practices series focuses on "Don't Follow the Wind," the acclaimed collaborative project situated in Fukushima's radioactive exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of human presence amid the fallout of the March 2011 nuclear reactor meltdown that displaced entire towns. What can art do in a continuing catastrophe when destruction and contamination have made living impossible? The exhibition is located inside the exclusion zone, an evacuated radioactive area established after the nuclear disaster that forcibly separated residents from their homes, land, and community. In cooperation with former residents, participating artists installed newly commissioned works at sites in the exclusion zone. Although the exhibition opened in March 2015, the zone is still inaccessible to the public-the exhibition, like the radiation, is virtually invisible. The exhibition can only be viewed when restrictions are lifted and people are permitted to return. This might take several years or decades-a period that could extend beyond our lifetime. While nuclear contamination has displaced and ruptured communities, new temporary and translocal formations have emerged among the residents who have lent their sites, other former residents collaborating on the project, and the artists, curators, and cultural workers. This book includes new texts by feminist theorist Silvia Federici, art historians Noi Sawaragi and Sven L tticken, and political philosopher Jodi Dean. The project was codeveloped and curated by the collective Don't Follow the Wind, whose members include Chim?Pom, Kenji Kubota, Eva & Franco Mattes, and Jason Waite. The participating artists include Ai Weiwei, Chim?Pom, Nikolaus Hirsch & Jorge Otero-Pailos, Meiro Koizumi, Eva & Franco Mattes, Grand Guignol Mirai, Aiko Miyanaga, Ahmet g t, Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, Nobuaki Takekawa, and Kota Takeuchi.

Don't Follow the Wind (Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice)

Waite, Jason

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Sternberg Press

Two hundred works, including a giant installation of a black widow’s spiderweb that was developed with spider researchers and astrophysicists.

Tomas Saraceno: 14 Billions

OBRIST, Hans-Ulrich

Kastner, Jeffrey

Arrhenius, Sara

Granstrom, Helena

Reference

Skira

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