Preface, Words of Welcome, Foreword, Introduction

Matthias Lob and Barbara Riischoff-Parzinger Preface of the Regional Association of - 17

Vera Szollosi-Brenig A Word of Welcome from the Volkswagen Foundation 18

Fritz Behrens A Word of Welcome from the Art Foundation 19 of North -Westphalia

Angela Kiihnen A Word of Welcome from the Gerda Henkel Foundation 20

Markus Lewe and Bernadette Spinnen A Word of Welcome from the City of Munster 21

Hermann Arnhold, Ursula Frohne and Marianne Wagner Foreword of the editors 23

Ursula Frohne and Marianne Wagner Ducks and Communists: An Introduction 29 Conversations

A Dialogue between Dirk Baecker and Tom Holert Art at a Crossroads: 51 Post-Public Public Spaces

The Research Group of the Skulptur Projekte Archives in Conversation with Klaus Bufimann A Commitment to Art and the Public 57

A Conversation with Kasper Konig by Michael Stoeber Looking Back to the Future 81 Essays

Claudia Bliimle Creating Art Access in the Public Space: On the Cartographical 109 Configuration of the Skulptur Projekte Munster (1977-2017)

Valerie Bussmann 'The Debate Makes the Work’ or 'The Work Makes the Debate’ 135

Kai van Eikels Two Workshops, How Many Publics? 151 Rirkrit Tiravanija and Koki Tanaka Erect Archival Preserves for Living Together

Maria Cristina Machado Freire Archives as Battlefield 167

Ursula Frohne Plateaus of Plural Public Spheres 177

Rachel Mader Purchasing Performances: On the Recurring Renegotiation 199 of Authorship, Publicness, and the Concept of the Artwork

Katharina Neuburger The Go-Between: The Archives as Mediator between 207 Work and Public

Nora Sternfeld Munster’s Counter-Monuments: The Aesthetics of Remembrance 213 in Public Space

Reiko Tomii Tokyo, 1970 / Munster, 1977: A Transnational Comparison 229

Marianne Wagner Collision and Permeability: The Museum as a Public Space 245 Statements Responding to Questions from the Skulptur Projekte Archives

Alexander Alberro WHY CONTINUE? 263 Hermann Arnhold THE FRUITS OF MUSEUM WORK: THE THRIVING OF THE SKULPTUR PROJEKTE ARCHIVES 265 Edith Decker-Phillips LARGE MEN, LITTLE WOMEN 267 Georg Elben THE HOT WIRE - MUNSTER AND MARL REVISITED 269 Brigitte Franzen BUILDING THE ARCHIVES 271 Ursula Frohne COURSE CORRECTION: PARTICIPATION INSTEAD OF EXPANSION 273 Walter Grasskamp A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN PUBLIC SPACE 275 Ulrike Groos GROWING AND FLOURISHING IN FREEDOM 277 Imke Itzen A MAGNET FOR SPONSORS: TINA TURNER BEATS SOL LEWITT 279 Jun Jiang CROSS-CULTURAL PARADIGM SHIFTS OF PUBLIC ART 281 Kasper Konig WISHING WELLS 283 Christine Litz A QUESTION OF INVOLVEMENT 285 Florian Matzner FROM ART TO SERVICE ... AND BACK! 287 Friedrich Meschede THE VANDALIZING VIEWER: 289 ON KATHARINA FRITSCH’S MADONNA AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND THE CHURCH Markus Muller CARTE BLANCHE FOR THE FUTURE 291 Britta Peters GOODBYE SKULPTUR PROJEKTE 2017 293 Carina Plath AMBIVALENT, EMPATHETIC AND REVEALING 295 Bernadette Spinnen SNOW GLOBE AND CHOCOLATE HEART 297 Marianne Wagner PRODUCTIVE RISKS 299 Silke Wagner INSISTING AND PERSISTING: ON FORMS OF EXISTENCE 301 Ulrich Wilmes HOLDING OUT AGAINST TOPICALITY: ECONOMIES IN PUBLIC SPACE 303

Andreas Siekmann WHEN ASKED ABOUT... 305 Case Studies

EvaEhninger Elective Affinities: Rosemarie Trockel and Donald Judd 309

Maria Engelskirchen Between the Visible and the Sayable: 321 On the Significance of 3D Printing in Christine Borland’s Work Die Toten lehren die Lebenden -The Dead Teach the Living

Eckhard Kluth On the Desired and the Possible: 331 The Skulptur Projekte and the University in 1977

Mario Kramer Project: Pieselfelder - Joseph Beuys’s Unrealized Ecological 341 Gesamtkunstwerk for the Skulptur Projekte in Munster 1987

Julius Lehmann Projects, Projections, Utopias: The Documentary Exhibition 353 as Artistic Strategy and a Space of Possibilities

Marijke Lukowicz "An Exhibition without Example”: 367 The Development of the Skulptur Projekte in the Context of Contemporary Exhibition Formats

Carmen Morsch and Claudia Hummel The Same Dignity and Respect? 379 A Sketch for Situating Education at the Skulptur Projekte 1977 and 1987 in the History of Their Time and Field

Marie-France Rafael Public Space on Display: 385 On the ‘Cinema Situation’ in Clemens von Wedemeyer’s Von Gegenuber and Dan Graham’s Cinema

Kristina Scepanski Claim Your Space 391 Case Studies

Philip Ursprung A Face of Artistic Labor: Haus by Peter Fischli and David Weiss 399

John C. Welchman Facing in the Direction of a Sodomite Couple 407 (Who Never Responded): Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo

Elena Winkler Unconscious Places - Thomas Struth’s A Projection for Munster 419 at the Skulptur Projekte in Munster 1987

Christine Wolfle Inscription at Work: Read and Let Read 427 In Progress

Research Project 439 Skulptur Projekte Archives 443 The Public Matters - Exhibition 445

Appendix

The Public Collection 453 Skulptur Projekte in the Museum 469 About the Authors 475 Imprint 481