Thomas Hirschhorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 252941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Hirschhorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschhorn |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHHORN T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Four Texts on Claes Oldenburg
Tacita Dean, Julia Robinson, and Joshua Shannon offer recollections of Claes Oldenburg and his work, and Thomas Hirschhorn presents a photo-essay/artwork in response to the artist's recent passing
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Voir et penser
Nous devons tout voir avec nos propres yeux, y compris les images de cadavres, pour casser les icônes journalistiques et se confronter au monde tel qu'il est
Gramsci Monument
The following texts concern the Gramsci Monument an artwork realized in the Bronx, New York, in 2013, commissioned by Dia Art Foundation. They were written before, during, and after the Gramsci Monument experience and were diffused on the website that was part of the artwork. They will be published in the book Gramsci Monument, (Konig Books and Dia Art Foundation, 2015). In these texts the artist struggles to understand, to fix in place, and to i…
Flamme éternelle
Running for fifty-three days (23 April to 23 June 2014) at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Flamme éternelle (Eternal Flame) was Thomas Hirschhorn's sixty-sixth artwork produced in a public space. Open each day from noon to midnight with free admission, Flamme éternelle included a bar, computer stations, a small library of books, a video room with DVDs, a workshop for art making, a daily journal, and continual lectures around the two “fireplaces.” T…
An Electronic Conversation between Thomas Hirschhorn and Jacques Rancière
This article is an email conversation between the artist Thomas Hirschhorn and the philosopher Jacques Rancière that took place from December 2009 to February 2010. The images of 'The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival', an artwork by Thomas Hirschhorn that occurred in the outskirts of Amsterdam in 2009, portray the levels of engagement by the local participants and the interaction with invited speakers and performers. The interview with Jacques Rancière a…
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Gramsci Monument
The following texts concern the Gramsci Monument an artwork realized in the Bronx, New York, in 2013, commissioned by Dia Art Foundation. They were written before, during, and after the Gramsci Monument experience and were diffused on the website that was part of the artwork. They will be published in the book Gramsci Monument, (Konig Books and Dia Art Foundation, 2015). In these texts the artist struggles to understand, to fix in place, and to i…
An Electronic Conversation between Thomas Hirschhorn and Jacques Rancière
This article is an email conversation between the artist Thomas Hirschhorn and the philosopher Jacques Rancière that took place from December 2009 to February 2010. The images of 'The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival', an artwork by Thomas Hirschhorn that occurred in the outskirts of Amsterdam in 2009, portray the levels of engagement by the local participants and the interaction with invited speakers and performers. The interview with Jacques Rancière a…
An Electronic Conversation between Thomas Hirschhorn and Jacques Rancière
This article is an email conversation between the artist Thomas Hirschhorn and the philosopher Jacques Rancière that took place from December 2009 to February 2010. The images of 'The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival', an artwork by Thomas Hirschhorn that occurred in the outskirts of Amsterdam in 2009, portray the levels of engagement by the local participants and the interaction with invited speakers and performers. The interview with Jacques Rancière a…
Gramsci Monument
The following texts concern the Gramsci Monument an artwork realized in the Bronx, New York, in 2013, commissioned by Dia Art Foundation. They were written before, during, and after the Gramsci Monument experience and were diffused on the website that was part of the artwork. They will be published in the book Gramsci Monument, (Konig Books and Dia Art Foundation, 2015). In these texts the artist struggles to understand, to fix in place, and to i…
Flamme éternelle
Running for fifty-three days (23 April to 23 June 2014) at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Flamme éternelle (Eternal Flame) was Thomas Hirschhorn's sixty-sixth artwork produced in a public space. Open each day from noon to midnight with free admission, Flamme éternelle included a bar, computer stations, a small library of books, a video room with DVDs, a workshop for art making, a daily journal, and continual lectures around the two “fireplaces.” T…
Voir et penser
Nous devons tout voir avec nos propres yeux, y compris les images de cadavres, pour casser les icônes journalistiques et se confronter au monde tel qu'il est
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Four Texts on Claes Oldenburg
Tacita Dean, Julia Robinson, and Joshua Shannon offer recollections of Claes Oldenburg and his work, and Thomas Hirschhorn presents a photo-essay/artwork in response to the artist's recent passing
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)