Of Bridges & Border Vol. II – New book ! – We are looking for your collaboration

Of Bridges & Border Vol. II – New book ! – We are looking for your collaboration

Of Bridges & Border Vol. II - New book ! - We are looking for your collaboration

Of Bridges & Border Vol. II
http://www.ofbridgesandborders.com

We have just finished printing the second volume of the book of our project Of Bridges & Borders, edited with JRP|Ringier, and designed by Baldinger – Vu-Huu.

It is a book (with Spanish and English translations) that we have been working on since 2011 and which forms part of the collaborative project that we have carried out since 2009 among contemporary artists, managers and thinkers, thus entering a new phase, which complements and enriches it in the development of the theme that we address through Of Bridges & Borders.

Anthropologists, philosophers, artists, researchers, sociologists, publishers, graphic designers and architects join the project, gathering them in this new book. Through unique stories and complex research, the essays deal with new technologies, contemporary art, migrations and city development, innovations in construction, freedom of expression and utopian urbanism.

From 2011 to date, these are the people who joined Of Bridges & Borders with their invaluable participation in the second book:

Marc Augé (ethnologist, anthropologist and cultural theorist // FRA) [see Marc Augé: Architecture and non-places]
Texts: The Symbolism of the Border

Graciela Speranza (film critic, narrator and scriptwriter // ARG)
Texts: Variations on the “In-Between.” Three Episodes in Latin American Art

Juan Herreros (architect, professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid and permanent professor at Columbia University // ESP)
Texts: Building Bridges between Center, Periphery and Territory

Marcos Giralt Torrent (writer // ENG)
Texts: Teseo’s Confession

Lawrence Weiner (artist // USA)
Project: Crossing the Line

Rossana Reguillo (doctor and researcher in Social Sciences, anthropologist // MEX)
Texts: Bridges in Scenes

Ricardo Menéndez Salmón (writer // ESP)
Texts: The Two Shores

Fátima Vélez on SIMÓN VÉLEZ (architect // COL)
Texts: The Architect in His Garden

Oliver Zybok (visual culture specialist, curator and publicist // GER)
Texts: Freedom of Speech: Between Euphoric. Illusion and Escapist Disillusion

Carlo Ratti (architect, engineer, researcher, director of the MIT SENSEable City Lab // ITA), Nashid Nabian (architect, PhD in design from the Hardvard Graduate School of Design, researcher // IRI) & Luca Simeone (design management, interaction design and design anthropology // ITA)
Texts: Of Borders Selectively Crossed and Domains Carefully Bridged: Interdisciplinarity and Research-driven Design

Diana Wechsler (art historian, curator, art critic, researcher at CONICET, director of the UNTREF Institute for Research in Art and Culture // ARG) on Christian Boltanski (artist // FRA)
Texts: Stubborn Toil between Art and Life

Saskia Sassen (sociologist and economist, specializing in studies on globalization, world cities and international migration // NED)
Texts: Old Borders and New Bordering Capabilities: Cities as Frontier Zones

Alejandro Grimson (PhD in anthropology, researcher at IDAES, UNSAM, writer // ARG)
Texts: Liminality, Interculturality

Kyong Park (artist, architect, professor at the University of California-San Diego, founding director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit and the Central Foundation for Future Cities in Rotterdam // CHN)
Texts: A History of Multinational State, at the End of Nation-States

Valentina Montero Peña (journalist, researcher and curator in contemporary art, specialized in photography and new media // CHI) &VANINA HOFMAN (researcher of the Information and Knowledge Society Program of the IN3 in Barcelona, director and researcher of Taxonomedia // ARG)
Texts: Mobile Borders: Art, Science and Technology

Sandro Mezzadra (PhD in history of political thought and institutions, teaches political theory at the Università di Bologna, associate member of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, researcher // ITA)
Texts: Transformations of a Furrow. Land and Borders

Jenny Holzer (artist // USA)
Project: MAP Painting Series

Teddy Cruz (architect, designer, artist, professor of Public Culture and Urbanism -Dept. Visual Arts of the University of California – San Diego, founder of the Center for Urban Ecologies at UCSD // GUA)
Texts: The Political Equator. Conversations on Coexistence: Border Neighborhoods as Sites of Production

This work is in addition to that of the artists who participated in the first book, and in the exhibition editions that we developed in 21 cities in 13 countries

Ignasi Aballí (ESP), Carlos Amorales (MEX), Hans Op de Beeck (BEL), Erick Beltrán (MEX), John Bock (GER), Chris Burden (USA), Recetas Urbanas /Santiago Cirugeda (ESP), Dr Lakra (MEX), Elmgreen & Dragset (DEN & NOR), Matías Duville (ARG), Gardar Eide Einarsson (NOR), Carlos Garaicoa (CUB), Liam Gillick (UK), Fabrice Gygi (CH), Thomas Hirschhorn (CH), Hassan Khan (EGY), Guillermo Kuitca (ARG), Lang/Baumann (CH), Claude Lévêque (FRA), Nicola López (USA), Jorge Macchi (ARG), Josep-Maria Martín (ESP), Gianni Motti (CH) Mouse On Mars / Diango Hernández (GER/CUB), Antoni Muntadas(ESP), Carsten Nicolai (GER), Dan Perjovschi (ROU), Frédéric Post (CH), Reynold Reynolds (USA), Muntean/Rosenblum (AUT/ISR), Tomás Saraceno (ARG), Santiago Sierra (ESP), Ishmael Randall Weeks (PER), Ai Weiwei (CHN), Marcela Armas (MEX), Eduardo Basualdo (ARG), Peter Garfield (USA), Séverine Hubard (FRA), Till Roeskens (GER), Patrick Steeger (CHI), Rodrigo Vergara (CHI), Shun Yuan (CHN), Meneo (ESP), Dañel Mirkin Frois (ARG), Dimlite (ESP), among others.

Project Director
Sigismond de Vajay

Co-Editors/Co-Publishers
Flavia Coast
Pedro Donoso
Sigismond de Vajay

Graphic Designers/Designers
Baldinger – Vu-Huu

Published by/Published by
JRP|Ringier

photos of the book / Fotografía del libro
Graziella Antonini

BOOK
Of Bridges & Borders II” / ISBN 978-3-03764-263-4