Editorial Team
Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy
Edited by Peter Weibel and Andreas F. Beitin
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2011
Based in London and Berlin, Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (b. 1969, Norway) have worked as a collaborative team since the mid-1990s. In 2006, their Welfare Show at the Serpentine Gallery in London invited viewers to consider societal power structures, including economic disparity, health care, immigration, travel, prostitution, the police state, and the role art plays in society. The duo were awarded a Special Mention at the 53rd Venice Biennale for The Collectors, their highly elaborate and widely acclaimed exhibition for the Danish and Nordic Pavilions in 2009, while their 2011 work Celebrity: The One and the Many addresses rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, and the machinations of the media and its formation of myths. This book thoroughly documents these projects, showing how the artists’ sculptures and installations reconfigure the familiar with characteristic wit and subversive humor. The book also includes interviews with the duo and with French philosopher Paul Virilio.
Contributors
Andreas F. BeitinTony Benn
Ingar Dragset in conversation with Eric Brogmus
Dominic Eichler
Harald Falckenberg
Georg Franck
Sacha Goldman
Maja Gro Gundersen
Martin Hartung
Shannon Jackson
Tom Mole
Rodrigo Maltez Novaes
Max Otte
Bernhard Pörksen and Wolfgang Krischke
Hermann Strasser
Sarah Thornton
Paul Virilio in conversation with Sacha Goldman
Peter Weibel
CLIENT
Elmgreen & Dragset link
Buchhandlung Walther Königcredits
Editorial Team: Ulrike Havemann, Idis Harmann, Anja Schiller, Anita IannacchioneCopyediting and Proofreading: Justin Morris
Design: Büro für Film und Gestaltung: Andreas Koch, Berlin, Germany
Photos: Galerie Perrotin