www.distanz.de
www.public-preposition.net
www.mischakuball.com
Edited by Vanessa Joan Müller
24 projects in public spaces: 2009–15
Venice / Marfa / Toronto / Bern / Wolfsburg / Wuppertal / Katowice / Bochum / Sofia / Christchurch / Marl / Leipzig / Thessaloniki / Berlin / Münster / Bucharest / Jerusalem / Sydney / Krefeld / Vienna / Cologne / Bihać / Boston / Duisburg
Mischa Kuball’s public preposition is a group of works, interventions, projects, and performances made over a period of several decades. What they have in common is that they appeal to a public sphere and implicitly question in what locations and under what circumstances we define “public,” and how it should be understood.
Many of these interventions and projects were temporary in nature and only exist in the form of photo documentation. Others were deliberately conceived as more ephemeral, with a limited visibility even in terms of their local appearance. In this sense, public preposition points to a fundamental contradiction of the public sphere: on the one hand, it sees itself as unlimited, but on the other, the duration and audience of an intervention or event is objectively limited. For this reason, to introduce public preposition in a publication of its own, to discuss and to document it, must itself be seen as a gesture toward creating a public and including individual projects in a larger context.
Vanessa Joan Müller is an art historian and curator. She works as a dramaturge at the Kunsthalle Vienna and leads the European Kunsthalle project.
Authors:
Zoran Erić
Blair French
Vanessa Joan Mueller
Barbara Steiner
Mischa Kuball – public preposition
Published by DISTANZ Verlag / Distributed Art Publishers
Edited and with text by Vanessa Joan Müller
Softcover with flaps, 20.5 x 27.5 cm, 176 pages, 100 color images
ISBN: 978-3-95476-114-2, 60 USD
Distributed by DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin
