Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway - Hardcover

Cornelia Erdmann; Michael Lee Hong Hwee

9789881763518: Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9881763517 ISBN 13: 9789881763518

Publisher: Studio Bibliotheque, 2008

Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway is a book that explores the activities, hobbies, concerns, quirks and obsessions of artists especially when they are not making art. In the book are 100 contributions by 111 international artists from the visual, literary and performing arts, including the applied arts of film, design and architecture. Contributors include Pak Sheung Chuen, Heman Chong, Map Office,:phunk studio, Sherman Ong, Alfian Sa at, Susie Lingham and Kelley Cheng. By offering a glimpse of the private lives of artists, this book provides insights to their art.

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About the Author:

Cornelia Erdmann was born and brought up in Frankfurt, Germany. She received a degree in architecture in 2002 and a MFA in Public Art in 2005 from Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Since 2002 Cornelia Erdmann is intensely involved in making art. In 2003 Cornelia Erdmann is a lecturer for {{Mediatecture}} at the Department of Architecture of the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. At the same time she also teaches workshops at Bauhaus-University Weimar, and continues her work as a media-artist. In August 2006 Cornelia moves to Hong Kong. In her projects she is mainly interested in the interaction of space and society, scrutinising aspects of urbanity and lifestyle always bearing a small smile along the way.

Michael Lee Hong-Hwee is a Singapore-based artist. Concerned with the relation between desire and space, he explores different forms and media, especially model, book, installation, photography, video, text and exhibition. Events he has participated in include: The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial 2008 (Independent Projects section; Guangdong Museum of Art), The 2005 World Exposition (Singapore Pavilion; Nagoya) and International Film & Video Association Film Award & Festival 1997 (Winner, Experimental Category; Texas). He was the curator of architect Daniel Libeskind's first solo exhibition in Asia: Between, Beside, Beyond: Reflections & Key Works, 1989-2014 (Singapore Art Museum, 2007). He was a recipient of Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) 2005, conferred by National Arts Council, Singapore.

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