The alternative guide to the universe
By: edited by Ralph Rugoff ; [exhibition curator, Ralph Rugoff]
Contributors: Hayward Gallery
Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781853323164
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Art and science; Outsider art; Architecture and science; Exhibitions
Description: Explores the work of self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in. Eccentric and inspiring, their work re-imagines our social and cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways of thinking. Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and space; create devices for time travel and communication with other dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization. Taken together, their work conjures a kind of a parallel universe where ingenuity and inventiveness trump common sense and received wisdom. With special added attraction The Museum of Everything in the Hayward Gallery Project Space. The Museum of Everything - that world-famous wandering space for unintentional, untrained, undiscovered, unclassifiable, unknowable, undeniable and unforgettable artists of modern times presents Sri Nek Chand Saini, creator of the legendary Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India.--www.southbankcentre.co.uk.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition, 'The alternative guide to the Universe,' held at Hayward Gallery, London, June 11-Aug. 26, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The Universe that Fell to Earth / by Ralph Rugoff; title: Invented Selves. On Counternarrative / by Rick Moody; title: Morton Bartlett / by Laurie Simmons; title: Lee Godie / by Helen Luckett; title: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein /  by Joanne Cubbs; title: Time And Space. Responding to Singularity / by Roger Cardinal; title: Alfred Jensen / by William C. Agee; title: Paul Laffoley / by Michael Bracewell; title: Guo Fengyi / by Helen Luckett; title: George Widener / by Tom Patterson; title: Melvin Edward Nelson / by Peter Hastings Falk; title: Cities And Buildings. Visionary Architectures / by Valerie Rousseau; title: Richard Greaves / by Sarah Lombardi and Valerie Rousseau; title: Bodys Isek Kingelez / by Helen Luckett; title: A.G. Rizzoli / by John Beardsley; title: William Scott / by Katie Kitamura; title: Marcel Storr / by Laurent Danchin; title: Jan Głuszak Dagarama / by Dominik Czechowski; title: Codes And Technology. Symbolic Devices : Where Art, Magic and Technology Collide / by Mark Pilkington; title: Ionel Talpazan / by Daniel Wojcik; title: Karl Hans Janke / by Helen Luckett; title: Emery Blagdon / by Leslie Umberger; title: Jean Perdrizet / by Eimear Martin; title: Melvin Way / by N.F. Karlins; title: Rammellzee / by Dave Tompkins; title: Wu Yulu / by Helen Luckett; title: Fringe Physics. Physics on the Fringe / by Margaret Wertheim; title: James Carter / by Margaret Wertheim; title: Philip Blackmarr by Margaret Wertheim; title: The Museum Of Everything / Presents Nek Chand; title: History of Exhibitions and Publications.