2019

Around the world, place-based projects are drawing increasing attention to the pillars of art, design, and economics as important players in the development and redevelopment of the so-called periphery. The 65th Jahresring: What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love? focused on Fogo Island Arts and Shorefast’s initiatives and poses the question: How plausible and effective are these ventures?

The Jahresring is an annual contemporary culture publication series founded in 1954 to become a “gathering point of the creative and critical forces.” In 2019, Jahresring was locally specific: focusing on Fogo Island, an island of approximately 2,500 inhabitants located off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A centuries-old cod fishing settlement, the community’s livelihood was nearly decimated in the mid-twentieth century due to industrial overfishing. The island is now experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural transformation, due in part to a recent series of art, social business, and asset-based community development initiatives. Fogo Island stands as an example of the potential (but also the contradictions) of contemporary alliances between art, design, and social entrepreneurship.

The first edition of What do we know? What do we have? What do we miss? What do we love? includes critical texts by Fabrizio Gallanti, Bruce Mau, Alexandra McIntosh, Chantal Pontbriand, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Monika Szewczyk; conversations between Zita Cobb and Liam Gillick; Brigitte Oetker, Helke Bayrle and Thomas Bayrle; Silke Otto-Knapp and Janice Kerbel; Willem de Rooij and Kitty Scott; Todd Saunders and Roger Bundschuh; and is lavishly illustrated with an array of color photography, installation views, and images of artist’s works.

The English edition of the original German: Was Wissen Wir? Was wissen wir? Was haben wir? Was fehlt uns? Was lieben wir? (2018) also includes a number of additional artist contributions by Abbas Akhavan, Assemble, Brenda Draney, Ieva Epnere, Leon Kahane, Zac Langdon-Pole, and Kate Newby, all of whom have first-hand experience of Fogo Island as FIA artists-in-residence or as visiting researchers.

Editors
Nicolaus Schafhausen, Brigitte Oetker

Publishers
Sternberg Press and Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V.

Year of Publication
2019 (German edition, 2018)

Language
English

Pages-Count
240

Graphic Design
Boy Vereecken, Antoine Begon

ISBN: 978-3-95679-443-8