The Alternative Guide to the Universe: Mavericks, Outsiders, Visionaries

by Rick Moody, Roger Cardinal, and Margaret Wertheim

Ralph Rugoff (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1853323160
  • ISBN13 9781853323164
  • Publish Date 16 January 2013
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Hayward Gallery Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English