Markus Jeschaunig

This book is dedicated to Markus Jeschaunig's Oase No. 8 (Oasis No. 8), an art installation in the form of a tropical waste heat greenhouse, which was on display in Graz from September 2015 to the end of 2016.

Markus Jeschaunig's artistic work explores themes of the interrelation between culture and nature. The Urban Oasis project provides the framework for a discourse on artistic research. This publication examines artistic and scientific strategies and their potential for mediating between knowledge production and society. The artist understands his work as agency, the work of art as a living organism with a social dimension. Authors from various disciplines negotiate questions about the hybrid relationship between the technological and the natural, and the aesthetic dimension of ecology.

Text contribution by: Christian Berg, Katrin Bucher-Trantow, Elisabeth Fiedler, Wolfgang Kessling, Marcello Di Paola, Laurids Ortner, Tatjana Schneider, Sebastian Sautter, Franz Stieber

Edited by: Elisabeth Fiedler, Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark

Executive Editor: Markus Jeschaunig

Design: Anja Jeschaunig, Katharina Schwarz, Margit Steidl

Publishing: Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin, 2018
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0510-8

Language: German/English
Pages: 180 p.
Softcover

Available: Online, in the Kunsthaus-Graz-Shop