Harriet Zilch

Sung Tieu (b. 1987) is a German-Vietnamese artist based in Berlin. Her artistic practice spans multiple mediums, including sound installations, video, sculpture, photography, performance and public interventions. She is a 2018 graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts London. With Civic Floor , the MIT List Visual Art Center is presenting the US debut of recently co-commissioned works by German-Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu in July 2023. Tieu employs sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation to examine a wide range of subjects in which social or political power is articulated through sensory and psychological realms. Perception is a key node in Tieu's work as she elaborates the often alienating effects of sound, architecture, design, and language. Working across various media, Tieu crafts a spatial narrative in each of her exhibitions that reflects her research into bureaucratic systems and their affective spaces as well as her lived experience with them.

Equator + North Pole or Candied atmospheric electricity were the names given to Italian futurists' dishes in the early 1930s, which they put on the menu at the Tavern to the Holy Taste Buds . Don't eat, just look and smell, are Ben Heinrich's and Lukas P rmayr's instructions for her current Recipe for the Hemlock Cup . This publication Delicatessen. Between Art & Cuisine takes a look at the diverse works of many artists, their recipe suggestions and their preference for restaurants as an extended workbench, whether historical positions such as those of Daniel Spoerri, Allen Ruppersberg, Pierro Manzoni, Dieter Roth and Gordon Matta-Clark or the contemporary ones by Thomas Friemel and Michael Riedel, Carsten H ller, Sonja Ahlh user, Boris Becker, Tobias Hantmann, Candida H fer, Martin Parr, Wolfgang Stehle, Walid Raad, and many others more. In addition to questions of creativity, where art and cuisine have undoubtedly always been thought of in parallel, it is also about rituals and ceremonies in our food culture. Because food has achieved immediate pop status in the last few decades: everywhere, on all TV channels cooking shows, on social media posts and selfies.

Christian Hellmich (b. 1977) creates works characterised by gestural abstraction and the asymmetrical arrangement of planes of colour, which are used to develop a kind of geometric grid pattern that dissects the pictorial space. This avoids any uniform perspective so that spaces penetrate into one another, and various image planes appear simultaneously. The fragments of motifs that Hellmich assembles are taken from his extensive image archive of photographs, magazine cuttings, Internet sources, postcards, and more. His approach is shaped by society’s handling of images in today’s mediatised age. References to architectural structures and comic-like shapes trigger associations without being clearly categorisable, thus rousing interest in their assumed decryption. Text in English and German.

Winfried Baumann (born 1956) is an extraordinary artist who works at the interface between art, architecture and design. Since 2001, he has dedicated himself to projects described under the umbrella term Urban Nomads. These are linked to concepts such as mobility, housing, food and transport, designed for all rough sleepers and other neo-nomads. His most recognized venture is called Instant Housing: a collection of miniature mobile living accommodation for those in need of shelter. Other groups of art works are called Instant Cooking, Instant Help and Instant Exhibition. This volume presents the images of Winfried Baumann's social art that prompt questions about human dignity. They are complemented by an exclusive interview with the artist and two essays by specialists in the field. In a time when ways of living are constantly questioned and social mobility is a requirement for all, Baumann's work invites us to reflect on our own lifestyles, and those of others.