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Olafur Eliasson: Green light | An artistic workshop
Sternberg Press, 2017

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Olafur Eliasson

Green light

Initiated by artist Olafur Eliasson in collaboration with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Green light – An artistic workshop has been conceived as a field of multiple impulses of production and mutual learning, exchanges and encounters surrounding the fabrication of an unlimited edition of geometric, stackable modules fitted with a metaphoric welcoming green light. While its first iteration took place in Vienna, Austria in 2016, this multifaceted program of fabrication and learning has meanwhile migrated to Houston, Texas and to the 57^th Venice Biennale.

In the face of growing desires to foreclose migrational movements and the ever restrictive legal and social obstacles for refugees and asylum-seekers to access education as well as the labor market and therefore social life in their new environments, Green light expresses itself as both a comment and an active response. This social and artistic experiment sets out to explore the possibilities and agency of art and cultural institutions in the face of challenges and potentials posed by migration. Likewise, the publication aims to test out questions of what comes after the arrival as what Giorgio Agamben designates the coming community that has never yet been. How to think and enact collectively produced shared spaces and processes of learning towards a pluralist society to come?

Throughout the entire book, testimonies, stories, memories, shared by the Green light participants – asylum seekers and migrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Somalia, Tajikistan, and Nigeria – are interweaved and superimposed: sharing the meaning of what the participation in the artistic workshop represents to each individually, unfolding the worlds created throughout and around Green light whilst unraveling a coming together of the everyday, political, personal, artistic, past, future in newly fabricated relations.

Sternberg Press, Berlin

May 2017, English
165 x 240 mm
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN 978-3-95679-333-2
EUR 23

edited by

Daniela Zyman, Eva Ebersberger

Contributions by

Atif Akin, Philipp Bauer, Ibrahim Al Bayati, Anas Aljajeh, Tahajud Alghrabi, Naima Ali, Milad Amiri, Mohammad Amiry, Marianna Amon, Murtaza Azimi, Ian Cion, Angela Dimitrakaki, Olafur Eliasson, Paul Feigelfeld, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Husseyin Haj Hassan, Liya Kasa, Homa Khosravi, Timothy Morton, Armen Muse, Sandra Noeth, Ahmet Ögüt, Boris Ondreicka, Zialuhauq Oryakhel, Kelvin Osazuwa, Johannes Porsch, Alarabi Rabhi, Emran Ali Rahimi, Clemens Rettenbacher, Andreas Roepstorff, David Rych, Rasha Salti, Saber Sawari, Markus Schlüter, Anna Schmoll, Georg Schöllhammer, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Issa Shafaei, Anahita Tabrizi, Qasim Tahmasebi, Alison Weaver, David Weidinger, Franziska Sophie Wildförster, Nira Yuval-Davis, Daniela Zyman

design by

Studio Folder  (Marco Ferrari,  Elisa Pasqual, Alessandro Busi, Aaron Gillett, Francesca Lucchitta)

Related program

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
May 13–November 26, 2017 | La Biennale di Venezia

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
February 24 – May 6, 2017 | Moody Center for the Arts, Houston

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
March 12–July 29, 2016 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

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Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson: Green light | An artistic workshop Sternberg Press, 2017

Olafur Eliasson: Green light | An artistic workshop
Sternberg Press, 2017