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		<title>photo 272</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>photo 170</title>
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		<title>Press Page</title>
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<li>2009 <strong>Abitare</strong>, Performa Hub, Why Plywood?, 10/11/09</li>
<li>2009 <strong>Abitare</strong>, Performa Hub, Miessen at Performa, 28/10/09</li>
<li>2009 <strong>SZ (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton)</strong>: “Phantomhochzeit”, on Dubai Duesseldorf, 15.10.2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong>Kaleidoscope</strong>, Dubai Duesseldorf, issue 03, October 2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong>Deutsche Bauzeitung</strong>, Alles Krise, September 2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong>HDA Gazette</strong> (HDA, Graz), Elementarteilchen&#8230;</li></ul>]]></description>
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<li>2009 <strong>Abitare</strong>, Performa Hub, Why Plywood?, 10/11/09</li>
<li>2009 <strong>Abitare</strong>, Performa Hub, Miessen at Performa, 28/10/09</li>
<li>2009 <strong>SZ (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton)</strong>: “Phantomhochzeit”, on Dubai Duesseldorf, 15.10.2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong>Kaleidoscope</strong>, Dubai Duesseldorf, issue 03, October 2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong>Deutsche Bauzeitung</strong>, Alles Krise, September 2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong>HDA Gazette</strong> (HDA, Graz), Elementarteilchen fuer die Zukunft der Architektur, September 2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong> OPEN</strong>, East Coast Europe (ECE) review by Dieter Lesage, no.17, May 2009</li>
<li>2009 <strong> TAZ</strong>, Trend zum Vollen Haus, 4./5. April 2009<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TAZ_article.pdf">TAZ article as PDF (380kb)</a></li>
<li>2008 <strong> Bidoun</strong>, East Coast Europe (ECE) review, Winter 2009</li>
<li>2008 	<strong>City 2.0</strong>, by Giovanna Borasi, in: What You Can Do With The City (Montreal: CCA), 2008<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Giovanna_Borasi.pdf">City 2.0 article as PDF (468kb)</a></li>
<li>2008 	<strong>The Guardian</strong>, Far West: 3 stars Arnolfini, July 2008</li>
<li>2008 <strong> Archinect</strong>, Features: Markus Miessen on Participation, May 2008<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Archinect-_-Features-_-Markus-Miessen-on-Participation1.pdf">Archinect on Markus Miessen on Participation as PDF (758kb)</a></li>
<li>2008 	<strong>The Independent</strong>, The Ten Best Architecture Books ever, May 2008<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/The_Independent.pdf">The Independent article as PDF (152kb)</a></li>
<li>2008 <strong> Print</strong>, With/Without review, April 2008</li>
<li>2008 <strong> Design</strong> (Korea), The Violence of Participation, April 2008</li>
<li>2008 <strong> Artnet</strong>, Digest, by Kimberly Bradley, January 2008</li>
<li>2007 <strong> ArtReview</strong>, In Shenzhen: City of Expiration and Regeneration, by James Westcott, December 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>L&#8217;architecture d&#8217;aujourdhui</strong>, With/Without, Nov-Dec 2007</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Betonart</strong> 16, With/Without, 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>The Guardian</strong>, A book of Soviet bus stops? It&#8217;s just what I&#8217;ve always wanted, Sunday Dec 23, 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Gulf Life</strong>, Gulf Air in-flight magazine, Compact but clever, With/Without, 1/12/2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Maison Martin Margiela</strong>, Special Box, 2007-08 edition, November 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung</strong>, Neue Tote braucht das Land, October 28 2007<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Frankfurter-Allgemeine_Pyramid.pdf">Frankfurter Allgemeine text auf deutsch als PDF</a></li>
<li>2007 <strong> Frieze</strong>, With/Without, Issue 110, October<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Frieze_WWO.pdf">Frieze Review as PDF</a></li>
<li>2007 <strong> Tank</strong>, Volume 5, issue 1, Define Arts</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Beirut Daily Star</strong>, A fine line between celebrating and bashing Dubai, August 10 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>The Nation</strong>, Full of Art &#8211; Lyon Biennial, Sept 28 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Time Out</strong>, Construction Sights, August 9 2007</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>AA files</strong> (55): A body in search of a mirror (Bart Lootsma)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Frieze</strong>: Modelle für Morgen (issue 108)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Bild</strong>: Kunst-Visionen quer durch die Kölner City (2/3/07)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Financial Times</strong>: Modelle für Morgen (7/3/07)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Monopol</strong>: Modelle fuer Morgen, European Kunsthalle (5/2007)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Monopol</strong>: Viva Colonia (4/2007)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Fillip</strong>: If you build it, they will come (no 5, April 2007)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Stadt Revue</strong>: Modelle für Morgen (Mar 15, 2007)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Die Zeit</strong>: U-Bahn und Tankstellen als Ausstellungsorte (01/03/2007)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Süddeutsche Zeitung</strong> (Feuilleton): Wohin auch immer (Nr.53, 05/03/07)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger</strong>: ‘Modelle für Morgen’ auf der Straße (01.03.07)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Kölnische Rundschau</strong>: Kunsthalle zu Gast in Kölner U-Bahn (01.03.07)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger</strong>: Das Orakel hält sich noch zurück (01.03.07)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>Intro</strong>: European Kunsthalle – Platz für Kunst (01.03.07)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Artkrush</strong>: Bidoun, Interview Lisa Farjam (Feb 7, 2007)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Archinect</strong> (onl.): Archinect’s editors share their favourite books from the year of the dog (Feb 2007)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Volume</strong>: Camp for Oppositional Architecture (no10, Feb 07)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Metropolis</strong>: Critique of Pure Research, Centre for Research Architecture (Feb 2007)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>dArt International</strong>: Did Someone Say Participate? (Mar 2007)<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Press_dARTinternational.pdf">dART International as PDF (860kb)</a></li>
<li>2007 <strong> Art</strong>: European Kunsthalle, erste Ausstellung (17/01/07)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Architektur Aktuell</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (Mar 2007)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Art</strong> <strong>Monthly</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (Mar 2007)<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/pdfs/Press_ArtMonthly_for_download.pdf">Art Monthly as PDF (4,6 Mb)</a></li>
<li>2007 <strong> Monopol</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (Feb 2007)</li>
<li>2007 	<strong>The Architect’s Newspaper</strong> (NYC): ‘Everything is Architecture’ (17.01.2007)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Derive</strong>: ‘Den Glauben verlieren und Räume produzieren’ (Andreas Rumpfhuber, Jan 07)</li>
<li>2007 <strong> Derive</strong>: ‘5 Codes – Farben der Angst’ (Christoph Laimer)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>A Daily Dose of Architecture</strong>: ‘Book of the Moment’ (Sep 20, 2006)<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Press_Daily-Dose_download.pdf">A Daily Dose of Architecture as PDF (320kb)</a></li>
<li>2006 	<strong>Kölner Stadtanzeiger</strong>: Ein bisschen anders soll sie schon sein (23.03.2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>Informationsdienst Kunst</strong>: Die Baustelle ist eroeffnet (05.01.2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> Diplo</strong>: ‘Post-disciplinary spatial practice’ (Issue 21, Nov 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> Frieze</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (Issue 102, Oct 2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>Contemporary</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (Issue 86)<br />
<a href="http://www.studiomiessen.com/temp_wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/contemporary_review.pdf">Contemporary review as PDF (776kb)</a></li>
<li>2006 <strong> Architecture</strong>: ‘Mind Matters’ (9/2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>A Daily Dose of Architecture</strong>: ‘Book of the Moment’ (Sep 20, 2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>Bayern2Radio</strong>: ‘Architektur der Angst’ (Sep 17, 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> Movium</strong>: ‘Platser uppstår när människor använder dem’ (Sep 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> arkitera</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (Sep 2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>Svenska Dagbladet</strong>: ‘Livet som ingen arkitekt kan planera bort’ (Sep 10, 2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>Chicago Public Radio</strong>: ‘The Sunday Morning Arts Show’ (July 30, 2006)<br />
Guest: Sarah Herda (Graham Foundation)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> r-echos</strong>: ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ (July 13, 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> archplus</strong>: ‘Research Architecture’ (178, June 2006)</li>
<li>2006 	<strong>first monday</strong> [peer-reviewed journal]: ‘Art and social displays in the branding of the city’ (Feb 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> Domus</strong>:’ Pacific Pyramid’ (893, 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> Monopol</strong>: &#8216;Security Check in&#8217; (Nr.3/2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> Domus</strong>: ‘Architecture on a geopolitical Scale’ (889, Feb 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> StadtRevue</strong>: ‘Ort als Schicksal (European Kunsthalle)’ (02/06)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> kunstaspekte</strong>: ‘Kunststaetten’ (Jan 31 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> e-flux</strong>: ‘SMS interview’ (Jan 6 2006)</li>
<li>2006 <strong> architektur</strong>.<strong>aktuell</strong>: ‘Schauplatz Berlin’ (1/2 2006)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> Baumeister</strong>: ‘Find The Gap’ (12 2005)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> Bauwelt</strong>: ‘Find The Gap &#8211; 25 Jahre Aedes’ (45 2005)</li>
<li>2005 	<strong>Der Architekt</strong>: ‘Szene: Find the Gap’ (11-12/05)</li>
<li>2005 	<strong>Frankfurter Rundschau</strong>: ‘Nischen ueberall’ (21.Nov 2005)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> Baunetz</strong>: ‘Find the Gap’ (Nov 7 2005)</li>
<li>2005 	<strong>Art – Das Kunstmagazin</strong>: ‘Schafhausen ans Witte de With’ (Sep 29 2005)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> Arcguide</strong>: ‘Find the Gap’ (Sep 2005)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> ICON</strong>: &#8216;Other Stuff&#8217;, by A. Boxill (03/2005)</li>
<li>2005 	<strong>Kunstbus</strong> ‘Stedelijke marges’, by Ingrid Breed (Feb 2005)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> Architectuurcentrum</strong> Amsterdam (Jan/Feb 2005)</li>
<li>2005 <strong> Archined</strong>: &#8216;Ongedefinieerde plekken en de overbodigheid van de architect&#8217; (02/2005)</li>
<li>2005 	<strong>Habiforum NL</strong>: &#8216;Tentoonstelling Spaces of Uncertainty&#8217;, by Paul de Gouw (Feb 2005)</li>
<li>2005 	<strong>Bits and Bytes from Elsewhere</strong>: &#8216;Bit of the ol&#8217; Back and Forth&#8217;, by Iso, G. (1/2005)</li>
<li>2004 	<strong>Open Source Architecture</strong>: &#8216;Pirated Spaces and Informal Architecture&#8217; (Oct 2004)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Australian Financial Times</strong>: &#8216;Tower under attack&#8217;, by Grant Gibson (Sep 18 2004)</li>
<li>2004 	<strong>New Statesman</strong>: &#8216;Not so kind to Libeskind&#8217;, by Grant Gibson (Sep 13, 2004; Vol. 17)</li>
<li>2004 	<strong>University of KwaZulu-Natal</strong>: ‘In the shadow of the Mahatma’, by D. Govinden (Aug)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Nextroom</strong>: &#8216;Raum, Zeit, Energie&#8217; (08/2004)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Wienarchitektur</strong>: ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’ (15/07/2004)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Multitemporary</strong>: &#8216;Inspiration&#8217; (7/2004)</li>
<li>2004 	<strong>Building Design</strong>: ‘Class of 2004, The UK’s Top Graduates’, by Zoe Blackler (iss. 1963)</li>
<li>2004 	<strong>Angel Eye</strong>: &#8216;berlinophile&#8217;, by A. Cangeli (14/7/04)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> PolitInfo</strong>: &#8216;Critical Planning&#8217; (Jun 2004)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Nai</strong>: &#8216;Tussenland: Bestaande benaderingen voorbij&#8217;, by B. deMeulder (Rotterdam, 2004)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Livejournal</strong>: &#8216;Compost of the Future&#8217; (01/04)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Blueprint</strong>: &#8216;Modern Man&#8217;, by Gaetano Pesce (Feb 2004)</li>
<li>2004 <strong> Laboratoire</strong> Urbain: &#8216;Presentation du deuxieme chapitre&#8217; (02/04)</li>
<li>2003 <strong> Bauwelt</strong>: ‘Urban Drift’ (41/2003)</li>
<li>2003 <strong> Berliner Morgenpost</strong>: ‘Die kreative Urbanistenszene’, by G. Luetzow (17/10/2003)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>Die Zeit</strong> (Feuiletton): ‘Turbo Haeuser’, by Gunnar Luetzow (13/11/2003)</li>
<li>2003 <strong> Bauwelt</strong> (StadtBauwelt): &#8216;Spaces of Uncertainty&#8217;, by Wolfgang Kil (12/03)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>A-Matter</strong>: &#8216;Archivists of the discontinuous&#8217;, by Alexander Kluy (Nov 2003)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>BBC London</strong>: &#8216;What&#8217;s On&#8217; (11/2003)</li>
<li>2003 <strong> Qvest</strong>: &#8216;Drift West&#8217;, by Titus von Lilien (Autumn 2003/No.10)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>Big Issue</strong>: &#8216;Snapshot&#8217;, by Ann Lee (Oct 20, 2003)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>TAZ Die Tageszeitung</strong>: &#8216;Keine Architektur ohne Event&#8217;, by Harald Fricke (15.10.2003)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>Vlaams Architectuur Instituut</strong>: Spaces of Uncertainty (Sep 2003)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>TAZ Die Tageszeitung</strong>: &#8216;Wüste, Narben, kalter Wind&#8217;, by Sandra Loehr (22.08.2003)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>Deutsche Bauzeitung</strong>: &#8216;Spaces of Uncertainty&#8217;, by Elisabeth Plessen (31/08/03)</li>
<li>2003 	<strong>Architects’ Journal</strong>: &#8216;Spaces of Uncertainty&#8217;, by Andrew Mead (26.06.03)</li>
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		<title>The Nightmare of Participation</title>
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		<title>Talk at Serpentine Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A talk on Crossbench Praxis at the <a href="http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&#38;source=web&#38;ct=res&#38;cd=1&#38;ved=0CAkQFDAA&#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.serpentinegallery.org%2F&#38;rct=j&#38;q=serpentine+gallery&#38;ei=pBFbS8W1JKbimgPf29yVAg&#38;usg=AFQjCNGZQaH0VrExdj_LlI20RMj2BBjEyw&#38;sig2=3HCEP-0dGI0CKcM-Ocp06A">Serpentine Gallery</a>, London, February 6, 2010.</p>
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		<title>Archive Kabinett</title>
		<link>http://www.studiomiessen.com/archive-kabinett-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Designed by nOffice, to be launched in February 2010.<br />
<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.archivekabinett.org');" href="http://www.archivekabinett.org/">Archive Kabinett</a>’s purpose is to create a space where to experiment with formats and concepts related to the field of publishing, to stimulate a challenging collaboration between artists, writers and curators while&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Performa Hub</title>
		<link>http://www.studiomiessen.com/performa-hub/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>For the Ground Floor space of the new Cooper Union’s building on Cooper Square, the Berlin-based architectural practice nOffice/Studio Miessen have been commissioned by RoseLee Goldberg/ Performa to design and construct a symbiosis of Performa’s central hub and a pavilion in which nOffice will broadcast an architectural statement.</p>
<p>Acknowledging that they are not performance artists, nOffice explore the thin line between being understood as architects rather than service providers. The practice interprets architecture as providing and enhancing the performance of matter, but still maintain autonomy of production.</p>
<p>The space at the Cooper Union was designed as a coherent environment and embodies a multiplicity of diverse voice, a democratic archipelago in which hidden structures expose subliminal yet intended narratives. Amongst a general information counter about the Biennial, Performa Hub also includes a screening space, a lecture hall, an archive, a radio and video booth, a kiosk and a small bookstore.</p>
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		<title>Art Basel Statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Das Kunstjahr ist vorbei, aber für eine Pause ist kaum Zeit. Nach sämtlichen Biennalen, Kunstmessen, kulturellen Veranstaltungen und Ausstellungen erwartet die Art Basel als führende globale Kunstmesse die nächsten Besucherströme. Das neue Jahr hat begonnen und die Messen und Biennalen werden in diesem Jahr die globalen Kunstnomaden wieder um den Erdball führen. ]]></description>
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<h3>Chance für das Neue</h3>
<p>Das Kunstjahr ist vorbei, aber für eine Pause ist kaum Zeit. Nach sämtlichen Biennalen, Kunstmessen, kulturellen Veranstaltungen und Ausstellungen erwartet die Art Basel als führende globale Kunstmesse die nächsten Besucherströme. Das neue Jahr hat begonnen und die Messen und Biennalen werden in diesem Jahr die globalen Kunstnomaden wieder um den Erdball führen.</p>
<p>Um der weltweiten Austauschbarkeit, die mittlerweile am besten auf e-flux erfahrbar ist, zu entgehen und wieder einen Schritt voraus zu sein, wird die Art Basel ihrer Rolle gerecht und erfindet das eigen kreierte Konzept der Statements neu. Da global einige Messen vor allem räumlich und strukturell nachgezogen haben, versucht das hier präsentierte Konzept aufzuzeigen, wie der zukunftsweisende Schritt der Art Basel auch räumlich erfahrbar gemacht werden kann.</p>
<p>Doch wie schafft man es dem globalen Status Quo von Standardzirkulation über Ausrichtung am Raster bis hin zur Verteilung über oft unübersichtliche und in sich isolierte Bereiche zu entkommen? Wie bindet man weiterhin die bekannten Besuchermassen an den Standort Basel und wie rekrutiert man potenzielle neue Besuchergruppen? Was macht den Kunststandort der Art Statements speziell? Wie produziert man hier Inhalte und stellt diese nicht, wie auf anderen Messen, nur dar?</p>
<p>In Zeiten des globalen Stadtmarketings a la Bilbao erschließt sich jedoch eine tatsächliche und nicht nur marketingstrategische Chance: mit wirklichen Inhalten zu punkten, mit einem Forum, dass über das Angefragte, Erwünschte und sich selbst weit hinaus geht. Hier wird die Messe als Institution in den Köpfen der Menschen langfristig verankert.</p>
<h3>Zentrale Vision</h3>
<p>Wir begreifen die Art Basel Statements als Manifest/Statement in sich. Eine räumliche Toolbox, die für mehr steht als sich selbst – nicht nur für eine singuläre Position, sondern die Möglichkeit, sämtliche Positionen zu vereinen, zu durchdenken und neu zu produzieren.</p>
<p>So wie Jeremy Penthams Panopticon sich aus dem Zentrum in den Perimeter erschließt, erschließen wir die Statements aus dem Perimeter nach innen: ein kaleidoskopisches Spektrum, dass sich selbst immer wieder neu beleuchtet. Es präsentiert eine räumliche und inhaltliche Neupositionierung des Statements-Konzepts durch eine zentrale Content Zelle, ein Forum der inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung und Reflektion.</p>
<p>Idealismus oder Pragmatismus? Nein. Idealismus und Pragmatismus!<br />
Noch eine Messe, nur mit anderem Inhalt? Nein. Art Basel Statements soll sowohl die finanzstarken Käufer als auch die wichtigsten global agierenden inhaltlichen Künstler, Produzenten, Institutionen, Kritiker, Journalisten und lokale Gäste anziehen und durch diese Mehrgleisigkeit eine inhaltsgestützte Nachhaltigkeit erzielen. Auf diesem Weg wird die Art für Alle zum Treffpunkt.</p>
<p>Im Zeitalter der Schnelllebigkeit muss sich eine Kunstmesse heute deutlich von anderen Mitstreitern absetzten. Es sollte ein Paket geschnürt werden, dass auch hält, was es verspricht. Deshalb konzentriert sich unser Entwurf nicht nur auf die bestmögliche und effektivste Darstellung existierender Statements, sondern produziert einen zentralen Ort der Messe, auf der Inhalte neu formuliert, gegeneinander gesetzt und ausgehandelt werden: ein Ort der kollaborativen Wissensproduktion, eine zentrale Content-Maschine. Deshalb ist unsere Vision der Statements nicht nur eine Messe als Show, sondern vielmehr ein Ort an dem Werte vermittelt werden.</p>
<p>Hier ist für uns wichtig, dass nicht ein aufgesetzter Idealismus, sondern die inhaltliche Realisierbarkeit des Entwurfs im Vordergrund steht. Wir sind keiner erträumten Formalität verhaftet oder ketten uns an ein vorproduziertes Interieur-Vokabular.</p>
<h3>Materialität und Akustik</h3>
<p>Unser Entwurf präsentiert einen Präsentationsring aus Galerien und deren Statements in dessen Mitte ein Kern aus variablen Programmen zur Schnittstelle zwischen Messe und Besucher wird. Dieser Kern, in dem Inhalte in Foren, Medien und Formaten, wie zum Beispiel Artist Lounge, Artist Books and Records, Conversations, und Lobby ausgehandelt werden, präsentiert sich in unbehandelter Holz-Konstruktion bewusst als roh und unfertig. Offen für Neues möchte dieser Raum ständig neu erfunden werden anstatt sich als bereits vollkommen abzubilden.</p>
<p>Die Akustik funktioniert hier nach dem Zwiebelprinzip, das mehrere variable Ringe als akustische Pufferzonen ausbildet. Der zuerst abstrakte Grundriss wird dadurch direkt zum pragmatischen Raumkonzept, das sich über die Verteilung der zentralen Programme und Zonen bis hin zum Forum der Conversations entwickelt.</p>
<h3>Kollaborationen</h3>
<p>Unser Gesamtpaket beinhaltet eine Reihe von Tools, die verschiedene Maßstäbe abdecken. Im Rahmen der Statements arbeiten wir mit der international renommierten Münchner Mode-Designerin Ayzit Bostan und dem ebenfalls Münchner Industrie-Designer Konstantin Grcic zusammen. Als Gruppe haben wir bestimmte Themenfelder ausgearbeitet, die sowohl von der Gruppe als auch Einzelakteuren neu durchdacht werden.</p>
<p>Ayzit Bostan wird sich konkret auf zwei Punkte konzentrieren: das erdgeschossige Verbindungsglied (Tunnel) zwischen Außenraum und der Statement (erster Stock), sowie einer haptischen Präsentationsform für eine Reihe von Art Basel Statements Produkten, die wir zusätzlich zum Ausstellungsdesign als integrale Bestandteile verstehen und vorschlagen. Hierbei handelt es sich um ein speziell zur Art Basel Statements produzierten Mini-Atlas/Büchlein aller Galerie-Statements, eine DVD mit einer kuratierten Auswahl von Conversations aus dem Art Basel Archiv, eine Statements Tragetasche, sowie einer Reihe strategisch platzierter Automaten, in denen diese Produkte erhältlich sein werden.</p>
<p>Konstantin Grcic wird (in Zusammenarbeit mit Jörg Koch, 032c, Berlin) eine Reihe speziell für die Art Basel nachgerüsteten und individualisierten Möbelstücken für spezielle Sitzgelegenheiten sorgen. Diese werden sich vor allem auch durch Farbkonzept in der zentralen Zelle des Forums/Conversations abbilden.</p>
<p>So versuchen wir nicht nur einen produktiven Mehr- und Erfahrungswert zu schaffen, sondern auch für die Besucher einen haptischen Maßstab aufzuzeigen. Auf der Statements kann man selber zum Produzenten werden. Hier werden Inhalte nicht nur formuliert, sondern können auch nach eigenem Belieben zusammengestellt und mit nach Hause genommen werden.</p>
<h3>Zukunft jetzt</h3>
<p>Wir begreifen die Art Basel 2009 als Chance in der globalen Krise. Gerade jetzt erschließt sich uns die Möglichkeit durch klar formulierte Positionen einen neuen Ansatz zu erarbeiten. Dieser Ansatz vereint Raum und Inhalt. Hier werden Positionen nicht dogmatisch verteidigt, sondern eröffnen einen Raum des Austauschs und der Wissensproduktion, an dem neue Positionen erarbeitet und nicht einfach ersetzt werden.</p>
<p>Die Statements als Labor, Inspiration, temporäres Forschungsinstitut und Akademie erstellt dadurch ein eigenes, nicht emulierbares Qualitäts- und Gütesiegel, das sich klar von der Vielzahl der globalen Mitstreiter wie zum Beispiel Frieze, FIAC, Armory etc. absetzt: ein speziell durchdachter und produzierter integrativer Ort für Sammler, Künstler, Kuratoren, Produzenten, Galleristen, und Kulturschaffende, die an einem Ort zusammenkommen anstatt sich ausgegrenzt fühlen.</p>
<p>Hier trifft sich Anerkennung von Tradition und kritische Selbstreflektion als Produktionsmaschine neuer Realitäten, die nur hier in Basel so produziert werden können – so wird die Messe als ganzheitlicher Wirtschafts- und Innovationsstandort erfahrbar gemacht: Art Basel Statements als Stadt in der Stadt in der Stadt. Ein Ort, der sich als Content-Raum neu erfindet.</p>
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<p>For the last years, Dubai&#8217;s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has pursued a simple goal: to become number one in everything. Dubai would get the world&#8217;s biggest cargo port, the world&#8217;s tallest skyscraper, the world&#8217;s largest airport, the world&#8217;s biggest amusement park, and the world&#8217;s greatest concentration of five-star hotels. But in May 2007, Head of Dubai&#8217;s Road and Transport Authority, Matter Al Tayer, asked at the International Design Forum about the emirate&#8217;s growing traffic problems, found these astonishing words: &#8220;I love Düsseldorf. It&#8217;s my favourite city. With bicycles and pedestrian zones next to the Kö [the Königsallee, a central boulevard and luxury shopping mile].&#8221;</p>
<p>Düsseldorf was one of the pillars of the German economic miracle of the fifties; with the Kö, the high-rise building popularly called Dreischeibenhaus (&#8221;Three-Slice Building&#8221;), and its pedestrian traffic lights featuring a yellow phase, it came to epitomize German modernity. Today, Düsseldorf is wealthier than the average German city, but since the reunification of Germany, it has largely failed to attract attention on the supraregional stage. With the end of the real estate boom and the onset of the global financial crisis, Dubai, for its part, finds itself buried under a gigantic load of debt.</p>
<p>What if, in this era of globalization, not only corporations from different countries and continents merged but cities as well? Which synergies might such a fusion generate? Which imaginations and energies might the mere announcement unleash? Starting from an idea proposed by architect Markus Miessen and  writer Ingo Niermann, a team of artists, film directors, designers, and architects speculates about how Dubai and Düsseldorf unite their strengths to find solutions for the 21st century.</p>
<h3>Future Perfect Continuous</h3>
<p>By Carson Chan</p>
<p>As the Bank of England’s ‘Architect and Purveyor’ from 1788 until his retirement in 1833, Sir John Soane saw to the completion and continual implementation of the bank’s neo-Classical design, which stood intact until it was finally rebuilt to Herbert Baker’s specifications between the wars. Soane, whose famous obsession with the trappings of man’s endeavor against the wheels of time (sarcophagi, busts, oil paintings etc.), propelled him to not only collect from the past, but to project the future of history – as if doing so would bring even the uncertainties of tomorrow into his control. In Crude Hints towards the History of My House, a text he wrote in his sixties, Soane imagined returning to his London home (now a museum) at Lincoln’s Inn Fields two-decades later, to find it a ruin. In 1830, the year of the fictional homecoming, Soane commissioned his amanuensis-turned-creative partner, Joseph Gandy, to make perspective renderings of the Bank of England. As in Crude Hints, Gandy’s softly luminous images show the bank building overgrown and dilapidated – its front steps on Threadneedle Street drop into a rocky chasm.</p>
<p>Architecture, shown through pictures, is conducive to this sort of storytelling. Narrative images &#8211; done in atmospheric perspective – have allowed Bible stories and property-developer pitches verisimilitude. What is obvious in Markus Miessen and Ralf Pflugfelder’s fanciful Dubai/Düsseldorf alliance – where images are deployed in such a way – is that beyond spinning an architectural fiction, the architects also employ narrative pictures as the metric against which lived reality is observed, critiqued and calibrated. Giving these places a future narrative is to look at them away from historical and political distractions, where meaning can fall anew onto known forms.</p>
<p>Miessen and Plugfelder’s Kunsthalle Dubai Düsseldorf project (2009), a collection of two and three-dimensional representations of fictional architecture projects in each of the two places, begin its narrative in 2008 when the global economic crisis seizes the local coffers and moves them into a partnership that would ensure mutual wealth and business opportunities. As if the bane of one is the boon of the other, the twinned governments ban art to save the economy – clueing in to the fact that the billions spent on art each year have offset available monies for far more dire global pursuits, say, green energy or world hunger. Art, it can be said, becomes detrimental to culture.</p>
<p>To mark this shift, like all past monumental paradigmatic shifts, two colossal structures are built, one in each town, to display a single piece of art – the only, and last allowable art-object, commissioned to commemorate the momentous union. The Kunsthallen are hollow, identical, chamfered boxes, like oversized John McCracken sculptures with about seven times more floor space than the Louvre. In Düsseldorf, the building sits on a plinth overlooking the Rhine. In Dubai, its height, 450 meters, is sunk into the ground – ostensibly to counter the emirate’s punishing climate and density. The structure’s interior walls are lined with terraces that allow visitors to view the single art-object, enshrined and ceremoniously lifted on a plinth.</p>
<p>The Kunsthallen play foil to Boulée’s 18th century, totalizing, encapsulations of knowledge with which they share iconic stature. Where the Bibliothèque du Roi (1785) or even the Cénotaph à Newton (1784, and roughly the same height as the Kunsthallen) bear the imprimatur of Empiricism, and therefore a hermeneutics of endless deducibility, the Kunsthallen sits vacant, and silently delays interpretation of its use or purpose. If Boulée’s designs depict the apotheosis of human learning – taking form as cosmic globes, cloud-piercing pyramids and bookshelves that recede into the horizon – it also exposes its limitations in the absolute finitude of materiality. A library, no matter how long its shelves, contains a limited number of books – a sobering concept contra to the suggestion of a roving, ever-expanding ken.</p>
<p>If Boulée’s architecture lays out a rational directive, then the Kunsthallen run on parallel but opposite passions, and in Miessen and Plugfelder’s chonology (the buildings are completed in 2071), they act as proverbial bookend to the Enlightenment shelf. By putting almost nothing inside their vacuous spaces, Miessen and Pflugfelder show their skepticism of Enlightenment’s architectural touchstone, the public institution; which they recast as an oversized void, unearthly and mystical. In the future, when people possess transcendent, bionic brainpower, architecture’s thralldom will no doubt be limited to its ability to cow with scale. Vast, inestimable emptiness, not plenitude, will impress.</p>
<p>Further rhetoric lies within the general purview of the project. The fact that the Kunsthalle – traditionally a smaller, collectionless exhibition space – is inflated to more than thirteen times the volume of the current largest building in the world (the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington), expresses a snide observation on the premium put on architecture as a provider of spectacle to both create and validate public spaces. Today, Times Square in New York can barely be understood as public space in any traditional sense, but rather as a condensation of profligate distractions that begets ever more amplified, competing versions that vie for our fragmented attention. The Kunsthallen provide ‘space,’ which is ‘public,’ but its usefulness as public space, as such, is nulled by the building’s humbling dimensions. Standing across the long-length of the building (just under a kilometer), people will look no bigger than peppercorns. These people, I imagine, are the same ones seen milling about on the banks of the Rhine in the Düsseldorf image. They look like all the stock-image people one finds populating computer generated architectural renderings: a carefree, leisurely class, a people who truly enjoy and fully utilize public space, native to nowhere except the collaged reality of architectural renderings. For Miessen and Pflugfelder, architectural reality, vis-à-vis city planning’s perennially stilted bureaucracy, is never projected so much as imagined; hoped.</p>
<p>The clearing of architecture’s socio-political register for a fictional one is made explicit in Miessen and Pflugfelder’s axonometric drawing of the Kunsthallen. While theorists like Manfredo Tafuri were claiming that architecture’s striving for formal autonomy transpired from its ‘guilty’ relationship with rationalist-capitalism, many practicing architects since the late 1960s used the axonomeric projection to present form free from its socio-political context, to allow for architectural typology and urban morphology’s self-produced traditions to delimit disciplinary contours. Axons – a projection where the dimensions of each edge are scaled equally, unlike perspectives – are understood to be more truthful in that they show a universal rather than subjective view. In Miessen and Pflugfelder’s drawing, the Kunstalle’s form similarly functions free from its contextual confines; the drawing references neither Dubai nor Düsseldorf as actual places. The Kunsthalle’s constituent parts – terraces, shell, base, roof and art object – are exploded, revealing new correspondences between an otherwise fixed set of relations. The roof-plate figure – a shape that is never really experienced by the visitors – gains a higher symbolic status as a kind of architectonic organizer; its beveled outline serving as the drawing’s borders. Superimposing the axon over the plan, ghosting the forms in a lighter line-weight to show transposition, and ‘gridding’ the drawing to give it its own order, Miessen and Pflugfelder’s drawing parodies a style of hand-done, pen-on-Mylar drawings from an era of exploratory drawing practices between the 1970s and early 1990s – a time when many prominent architects devoted time to theory and philosophy, and found it beneath them to actually build buildings.</p>
<p>The power of Kunsthalle Dubai Düsseldorf lies not in its critique of past practices, but in its ability to propel a critique of architecture and its tools as a practice of the past, itself a historical form. For what Gandy suggested by representing the Bank of England as a ruin, Miessen and Pflugfelder expand by giving a future history to buildings that were never meant to be built. Like Gandy’s bank, Miessen and Pflugfelder’s buildings are voiced, so to speak, in the hazily clairvoyant future perfect continuous tense: the Kunsthallen will have been built to mark the diplomatic unification of two places that jointly renounce art. Architecture’s stability is unseated by this simple conjugation, and it gives the effect of propping a distorted mirror to that which we have eternally held to be solid.</p>
<p>Then again, perhaps the image is unsettling, not because it is distorted, but because it has become so familiar – like repeating a single word many times until it loses all semantic sense. The moment the diverse and dirty stuff of art – of culture – is essentialized into a single object, is also the moment society resigns itself of change. It should be mentioned that the art piece in each Kunsthalle is kept inside a reliquary shaped like the combined buildings – a shiny white box (Düsseldorf) atop a shiny black box (Dubai). Presented with a state-approved object of adoration that resembles the state-sanctioned space for said adoration, we find ourselves locked within a shrouded, mediated experience, looped so tightly upon itself that it takes on the self-validating logic of religion. That this process will have been existing in two far-flung locales shows the rather blighted condition that Miessen and Pflugfelder predict for the future of urban design. For architect Michael Sorkin, “urban design, with its single, inflexible formula, is produced for customers – worshippers – rather than citizens.”[i] The mirror Miessen and Pflugfelder props, then, is not distorted but doubled, like the ones found in clothing store dressing rooms that reflect endlessly into darkness.</p>
<p>[i] Michael Sorkin, “The End(s) of Urban Design,” in Urban Design, edited by Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 2009 p. 170</p>
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