Hans Ulrich Obrist

Paul Chan

With an ode by Olafur Eliasson Following Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* *But Were Afraid to Ask, this second volume in the series on international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist presents a selection of his key writings from the past two decades, which elaborate on the manifold thinkers, curators, and events that influence his interdisciplinary practice of exhibition making. The collected essays form the compartments of Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

Sharp Tongues, Loose Lips, Open Eyes, Ears to the Ground

Paul French

The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai

City of Devils

Saddam Hussein

Negar Azimi

Jeff Severns Guntzel

On Democracy by Saddam Hussein

Rachel Cooper

There is growing interest in future scenario planning of theconstruction industry but a disconnect between thinking about thefuture at the policy-making level and implementing real change. Constructing Futures: industry leaders and futures thinkingin construction takes a thematic approach to the future of theUK construction industry by presenting the results of a series ofin-depth interviews conducted with leading construction figures andstructuring this material into chapters addressing the keycontemporary issues in the industry. These high-profile figures are drawn from a wide range ofstakeholder groups representing the realities of construction,including architects, client organisations (public-sector andprivate-sector), consultants, contractors, developers, lobby groupswith special interests, policy makers, professional institutions,and trade unions. A total of 15 influential figures were interviewed for the book,from Sir Michael Latham and Bob White to Wayne Hemmingway and KevinMcCloud. Part One looks to the past by reviewing a series of foresightstudies undertaken of the construction industry and re-presentingstories of our interviewees' lives to explain the development ofleadership in the context of the construction industry. In PartTwo, the authors look at the present and discuss two fundamentalissues: sustainable development and governance of the constructionindustry. In Part Three the book concludes with an afterthought forthe future, highlighting key lessons learnt putting forward aseries of research questions derived from this scholarly reflectionof 'futures thinking' in construction. Throughout, the authors juxtapose the views of the 15influential figures interviewed with a review of the salient pointsfound in the relevant and authoritative sources of theoreticalliterature, both in the mainstream literature and the field ofconstruction management. This allows the reader to benefit from thepractical insights of those interviews whilst gaining a rapidunderstanding of the key debates of the theoretical subject underscrutiny.

Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction

Constructing Futures

This artist's book for children, commissioned by London's renowned Serpentine Gallery on the occasion of Chan's 2007 one-person exhibition there, will be equally delightful to smart, imaginative children and any parent with a even a passing interest in Western philosophy. With words, drawings and cheeky, smart footnotes (citing such diverse sources as Goethe, Nietzsche, Hegel and Google) by Chan, it tells the story of a young girl who is afraid of the night until her shadow shows her how the world can be transformed in the dark. Innovative and engaging--but not at all uptight--this sophisticated children's book introduces ideas about language, art and contemporary culture with a lighthearted touch that keeps you flipping through the pages again and again.

Story and Pictures and Footnotes (strictly for Children)

The Shadow and Her Wanda

Paul Chan's monumental projection Sade for Sade's Saketakes the work of the notorious pornographer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), as a departure point for a nearly six-hour-long rhythmic study of bodily ecstasy and bodily repetition. Chan brilliantly renders the foremost quality of Sade's pornography--its fanatical appetite not just for the identifying of sexual possibilities, but for their enumeration and classification--as a rhythmic play of silhouetted bodies that fragment into parts, recombine and atomize, in a mechanized copulation poised between manic repetition and wild abandon. This artist's book brings together for the first time the drawings, writings, notes and fonts created during the production of Sade for Sade's Sake. It elaborates the full scope and thoughtfulness of the projection as a fascinating treatment of sex and eroticism, compulsion and joy, the social body and the sexual body.

The Essential and Incomplete Sade for Sade's Sake

Bryan Bergeron

"The biotech industry is a complex, rapidly evolving, and criticalindustry. The industry holds great commercial and societal promise,but it is also filled with hype, confusion, and risks. Bergeron andChan do a remarkable job of providing a sweeping insightful, andprobing assessment of the current state and likely evolution ofthis global industry. This book is essential reading for theexecutive who desires a thorough understanding of this business andits potential."--John P. Glasser, Vice President and ChiefInformation Offers, Partners Healthcare System, Inc. "Bergeron and Chan have done a marvelous job integrating manydifferent perspectives to give the reader a coherent road map ofthe biotech industry for the next decade. This powerful book isanchored by numerous relevant examples that create a frameworkwhich any life sciences professional needs to understand. Ofparticular note is the compelling assessment of the IT industry andits impact on the life sciences as these industriesconverge."--Michael A. Greeley, Managing General Partner, IDGVentures. An in-depth examination of the growth and financing of thebiotechnology industry worldwide Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing Overviewprovides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnologyindustry, including where major research is being conducted, whereit's being applied, and where money and intellectual capital areflowing. Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurialscientist in the biotech area, this unique book gives Eos and othersenior-level managers an understanding of Asia's pivotal role inthe worldwide success of biotechnology commercialization, as wellas insight into the biotech market over the next decade.

A Global, Economic, and Financing Overview

Biotech Industry

Bryan P. Bergeron

What makes Odysseus such a contemporary character even after 2,000 years? Why is the quality that Homer attributes to him (polytropos, which loosely translates as "cunning" or "many-sided") so evocative of questions that bind art and reason, creativity and ethics, freedom and conformity? Odysseus and the Bathers documents the 2018 eponymous exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist Paul Chan (born 1973) at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece. Inspired by the "polytropic" nature of Odysseus, Chan has created a body of work he calls "breathers" kinetic sculptures that are unlike anything else in contemporary art. An essay by Chan explores the concept and history of polytropos and its relationship to what Marcel Duchamp called "the creative act." This book also features an essay by curator Sam Thorne, a conversation between Nikolaos Stampolidis, Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art, and Elina Kountouri, Director of NEON, on the notion of "polytropism," and fragments by the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, newly translated by classicist Alexandra Pappas, which illuminate how Odysseus' "cunning" echoes traditions of thinking in ancient philosophy.

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