On 240 pages, the book sums up the ten-year long activities of the curatorial collective KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, including a generously illustrated catalogue documenting the exhibitions, festivals and artists’ projects. The relations between art, design, body, science and technology in the context of KONTEJNER's work are discussed in texts by Lois Keidan, Kontejner, Jurij Krpan, Davor Mišković, Maroje Mrduljaš, Stahl Stenslie, Miško Šuvaković. The book closes with a glossary that reaches beyond the specificities of projects presented, but is rather aimed to be a reference point for all interested in the intersections of art, body, science and technologies.
CONTENTS
1. Preview [1]
2. Preface: Kontejner [33]
3. Introductions
Miško Šuvaković: Kontejner: Radical Politics of Curatorial Practices [40]
Davor Mišković: Kontejner in the Context of the Independent Cultural Scene [46]
Maroje Mrduljaš: “Corporate” Design for a Cabinet of Curiosities [50]
4. Artefacts
a) INITIATION − OLD PHOTO ALBUM [60]
- 26th Youth Salon [62]
Reflections: Generic City / Jurij Krpan [68]
b) CARNAL ODYSSEY [72]
- Project Hospital [74]
- Extravagant Bodies 2007 [80]
Reflections: Extravagant Bodies - an Afterthought / Lois Keidan [86]
- Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Minds 2010 [88]
- Break21 [94]
- Last East European Show [100]
- The Orange Dog and Other Tales (Even Better Than the Real Thing) [102]
c) SCI&TECH MAGIC [112]
- Touch Me Project [114]
- Touch Me Festival 2005 [122]
- Touch Me Festival 2008 [128]
Reflections: Art in the Flesh / Stahl Stenslie [138]
- Out in Open [144]
- Device_art 2.004 [146]
- Device_art 2.006 [152]
- Device_art 3.009 [160]
- Device_art 3.010 [170]
- DIY_ARTLAB [174]
d) COMMISSIONS [178]
e) DESIGN [186]
