André Rottmann M.A.
Doctoral Researcher
Research Project
Art and Apparatus. The Work of John Knight, 1969 – 2013
The work of the American artist John Knight since 1969 propelled and to the present partakes in the radical redefinition of artistic practice: In Knight’s projects contextual parameters take precedence over a concept of the art work that operates exclusively within the framework of the image as well as the conventions and morphologies of traditional mediums. The proposition here is that significant works by Knight consequently allow a transitive notion of the image to come to the fore: images do not appear as discrete, stable objects, but are defined—like logos, trademarks and pictograms—in terms of their circulation, propagation, and modification.
Knight’s exhibitions in situ, in which the categories of object, medium, and site are systematically scrutinized and challenged against the backdrop of the transition from a society of spectacle to a society of control, are not contained within the museum alone but rather address a complex network, or apparatus, of institutions, discourses, and media. From the perspective of this monographic dissertation project, the processes and procedures of generating Evidenz can thus not be separated from the effects of images’ peregrination.
Profile
1997–2006: André Rottmann studied Art History, Comparative Literature, and French as a Foreign Language at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Freie Universität, Berlin, Tufts University, Medford, MA (USA: Foreign Student Grant, The German-American Fulbright Commission), and at Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III (F). 2006–10: Editor-in-Chief of the journal Texte zur Kunst. Since 2011: Member of Advisory Board of Texte zur Kunst. 2011–12: PhD Scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Düsseldorf. 2011: Guest Researcher at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, CA. Since 2012: Research Scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies BildEvidenz.
Research Interests
- Art and Theory of the Avant-gardes
- Art in the United States and Europe since 1965
- History of Sculpture since 1970
- Contemporary Art Criticism
- Art, Media, and Image Theory
Publications
John Knight. OCTOBER Files 16, André Rottmann (ed.), Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press 2014.
A Conversation with André Rottmann and John Knight. December 2011, Los Angeles, in: John Knight, a work in situ, Frankfurt am Main: Portikus 2013, p. 4-15 / 4.5-30.6.2013.
Peripheral Passages. John Knight’s Curb Appeal, in: May, No. 10, 10/2012, p. 185-190. (French translation: Passages périphériques. À propos de l’œuvre Curb Appeal de John Knight, trans. Elodie Chatelais, in: op. cit., p. 190-195.)
Displacing the Site: John Knight and the Museum as Modulation, in: John Knight. Autotypes, a work in situ, Alex Kitnick (ed.), New York: Greene Naftali 2011, p. 8-25.
Den Ort räumen – John Knights Virtuosität, in: Utopie und Monument. Ausstellung für den öffentlichen Raum. steirischer herbst 2009-2010, Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Wien/New York: Springer 2011, p. 178-181. (English translation: Evacuating the Site – John Knight’s Virtuosity, Gerrit Jackson (trans.), in: Utopia and Monument. Exhibtion for the Public Space. steirischer herbst 2009-2010, op. cit., p. 178-181.)
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