Books, Interviews by Heide Fasnacht
Romanov Grave , 2019
Interview with the artist about why she began painting again after a long stretch of time.
Artworks and text from the exhibition "LOOT"
Articles by Heide Fasnacht
This quarterly issue devoted to my work. It includes the above referenced essay by Teresa Stoppan... more This quarterly issue devoted to my work. It includes the above referenced essay by Teresa Stoppani exploring current concerns in recently exhibited sculptures.
Essay by Teresa Stoppani on a recent public artwork at Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC.
An interview by the Artnet news team regarding current projects at Socrates Sculpture Park and Ke... more An interview by the Artnet news team regarding current projects at Socrates Sculpture Park and Kent Fine Art Gallery, August 2015
Talks by Heide Fasnacht
A presentation of artworks from my recent exhibition "Loot", detailing the political destruction ... more A presentation of artworks from my recent exhibition "Loot", detailing the political destruction of art and culture. Works range from altered photographs to large scale installation works. The histories explored begin with the Benin Punitive Expedition through the Nazi looting of art up to the present day destruction of archaeological sites in Iraq and Afghanistan
Links by Heide Fasnacht
Interview concerning current exhibitions
The first in a series of sculptures exploring the rampant implosion of casinos in Las Vegas, Atla... more The first in a series of sculptures exploring the rampant implosion of casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and elsewhere. This work is made of vinyl and mixed mediums.
50' polychrome wood sculpture at Socrates Sculpture Park 2015
Artwork by Heide Fasnacht
Journal by Heide Fasnacht
In this issue, we invited contributors to explore the notion of 'stratum' and related concepts as... more In this issue, we invited contributors to explore the notion of 'stratum' and related concepts as key categories for contemporary spatial theory. Featured articles thus explore the life of spatial strata and stratification phenomena in disciplines ranging from philosophy, through architecture and sociology, to design. Stratification, folding and de-stratification have plural yet interconnected workings that need to be untangled. To begin with, a stratum appears as the result of a process of accumulation of materials. Dust offers a clear illustration, for dust incessantly stratifies itself over objects and bodies with a kind of dull yet mysterious and inescapable inertia. From this perspective, it is possible to focus on the peculiarities of accumulation, its indefinite, almost eternal temporality, as well as the specific relation that accumulated materials entertain with each other. While the dusting of things is rather intuitive in its physical aspect, an adequate understanding of architectural, urban, biological, and social dusts leaves scope for developments. Stratification is neither a linear nor a homogeneous process, and the notion of fold helps us gain an insight into the undulatory reality of stratification. Folds are the often invisible but crucial dynamic element underlying the formation of patterns and variations within strata. Folds, in this sense, stand in opposition to entropy. From this counter-thermodynamic perspective, the articles presented here illuminate how folds form a sort of inner, often hidden life within each stratum. Also, folding phenomena occur in a variety of domains and forms which include twists, spins, winds, twirls, etc. These processes take place at different scales, breeding further specificities in connection with inter-scalar encounters. We also know that no fold takes place without a concurrent movement of unfolding. In other words, counter-forces of de-stratification constantly operate throughout the strata as vectors of de-territorialisation. A range of apparently disparate happenings, such as erasures, translational landslides, and explosions, might ultimately lead us to focus on the complex, entwined relation between force and form. How do forces and their composition act upon and react to forms? How exactly to describe and capture a moment of de-stratification? How to measure and appreciate its outcome? These are some of the questions that this issue addresses. We open with an essay by philosopher Leonardo Caffo who, taking a non-humanist perspective grounded in relational realism, flashes out a veritable ontology of the layer. Caffo focuses in particular on the intrinsic differentiation that is presupposed by all layering and on how, concurrently, destratification might be employed as a technique of analysis of layered entities. After this, Jon McKenzie, a media theorist renown for his theory of performance, elaborates on the notion -and workshop practice -of ' diagrammatic storytelling' , which he describes as a destratification exercise meant to experiment with visual stories capable of unsettling common sense and potentially transform the elites' views (hence, 'storytelling up') on crucial common issues such as climate change. This issue's featured artist is New Yorker Heide Fasnacht, whose multifarious work develops across an impressive range of techniques (see pages 30-33), ' deforming and reforming' in order to 'reveal fissures' in all sorts of materials and stories (see the artists' website). Teresa Stoppani's article explicates Fasnacht's artistic operation as one of 'folding, unfolding and refolding of an event' -an ' explosive slowness' already tackled in lo Squaderno 26. Now, 5 EDITORIAL
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Further, it discusses my interest in playgrounds, amusement parks, and the process of entering the world on the part of the child.