The Missing Space Project: Six Interviews

by Gail Hastings (Editor), Marianne Stockebrand (Contributor), Egidio Marzona (Contributor)

The Missing Space Project aims to redress a lapse in recognising differentiated space in art. Differentiated space is the space art creates that is separate to while intermingled with the space in which we breathe and walk through. Introduced as ‘actual space’ as opposed to illusionistic space in the early 1960s by three-dimensional work otherwise called Minimal art, instead of an art historical pronouncement of the space, a jackhammer repetition of the word ‘reduction’ has defined the work, since. Still, today, reduction is stuttered like a tape recorder jammed in a phase-locked loop begging for release, for its mechanism to be rewound and replayed to a point beyond systematic failure. At that point we might hear the word’s reduction made silent these past fifty years. Words that articulate this work’s differentiated space. These six interviews debate the lack, its cause and the contemporary necessity of recognising differentiated space in this the Missing Space Project’s first stage.

The six interviews are with (in order of appearance):

curator Marianne Stockebrand (in Berlin)
Minimal art collector Egidio Marzona (in Berlin)
Minimal art anthologist Daniel Marzona (in Berlin)
art historian Gregor Stemmrich (in Berlin)
art historian Richard Shiff (in New York)
and curator Renate Wiehager (by correspondence);

With an introduction by Donald Judd expert David Raskin.

183 pages, ebook

Published October 14, 2015