Davos is a verb : A world in disruption - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3037786485 ISBN 13 : 9783037786482

Editeur : Lars Muller Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

Since the last financial crisis, a new practice has emerged in Davos: During to the World Economic Forum WEF, the main street is being temporarily rebuilt almost throughout. Freestanding pavilions are being constructed for events organized by companies, corporations and organizations, wall-filling banners are changing the Street scene, and business premises are being converted into commu- nication spaces for the realization of the respective agenda - at horrendous rents. In his new work, Jules Spinatsch applies strategies of photo essays, concept photography and in- vestigative journalism. Davos Is a Verb shows the aesthetics and behavior of the financial, technology and new media industries as well as politics: in shops, bars, clubs, hotels and even in museums and churches, where roundtable discussions, press conferences, but also parties and esoteric sessions take place. In this way, a parallel world beyond the official WEF zones becomes visible, where WEF participants, lobbyists, locals and tourists meet. Spinatsch also looks at vacant business premises, which are often only rented out during these few days. He sheds light on a practice that changes Davos not only in January, but permanently - whether out of greed, need, or a supposed lack of alternatives. Simultaneously insider and outsider, and with ironic distance, Spinatsch introduces us to this practice of disruptive pop-ups and puts it up for discussion.

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À propos de l'auteur

JULES SPINATSCH (born 1964 in Davos) briefly studied sociology in Zurich, then photography at the International Center of Photography ICP in New York. Since 2000, he has been working mainly on his own projects, which are published as monographs and shown as exhibitions, e.g. at the MoMA (NY) and the Tate Modern. In 2019 the comprehensive publication of the solo exhibition Semiautomatic Photography 2001 2020 at the Centre de la Photographie Genève was published. Temporary Discomfort won the prize for the best photography book in Arles in 2005.

TIM JACKSON, born 1957, is a British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey. He is the director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and the author of Prosperity Without Growth (2017). 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lars Muller Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3037786485
• ISBN 13: 9783037786482
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible