Over 25 contributors on Beverly Buchanan's wide-ranging practice to reframe race, sexuality, disability, and the poetics of place. Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House surveys Buchanan's wide-ranging oeuvre of sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, writing, and printed matter. Pairing newly commissioned essays with archival materials, the book situates the artwork of Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015) within historical, discursive, and deeply personal contexts. Tracing eroded surfaces of urban ruins on canvas and paper, studying vernacular dwellings and their "builder-occupants" in the rural South, and addressing questions of race, commemoration, and politics of place through site-specific sculpture, Buchanan built a language of place and repair. Alongside extensive primary sources from public and private archives, contributions by over 25 scholars and artists extend and complicate our understanding of this exceptional artist.
ContributorsElena Bally, Simone Browne, Jeffrey Bruce, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jennifer Burris, Andy Campbell, Maria-Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tony Cokes, Phoebe Collings-James, Mo Costello, Aruna D'Souza, Patricia Ekpo, Fredi Fischli, Jack Halberstam, Tonja Khabir, Charlotte Matter, Devin T. Mays, Park McArthur, Niels Olsen, Walter Price, Sarah Richter, Lowery Stokes Sims, Jamaal Sheats, Journey Streams, Adam Szymczyk, and M. Ty.
Elena Bally is a curator at gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich. She studied art history in Zurich, Vienna, and Rome. She is currently finishing her studies with a thesis titled
Beverly Buchanan's Unity Stones (1983) im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Arbeit und Schwarzsein. At gta exhibitions, she co-curated
Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House (2024) with Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, and worked on several exhibition projects, including
Unschöne Museen (2023), curated by Fischli, Olsen, and Geraldine Tedder; and
Life, Without Buildings (2022), curated by Adam Szymczyk. In 2023, she was awarded the Förderpreis Kunstwissenschaften by the Alfred Richterich Foundation and the Swiss Association of Art Historians.
Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen are curators and codirectors of exhibitions at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich. Together they work on projects at the intersection of architecture, art, research, and teaching, resulting in such exhibitions as
Unschöne Museen (curated with Geraldine Tedder),
Cloud '68: Collection of Radical Architecture, and
Home: A User's Manual or Book for Architects. In 2023, they taught as the John Portman Design Critics in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
艾蓮娜·巴利（Elena Bally）是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院（ETH Zurich）gta 展覽的策展人。她在蘇黎世、維也納和羅馬學習藝術史。她目前正在完成一篇題為《Beverly Buchanan's Unity Stones (1983) im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Arbeit und Schwarzsein》的論文。在 gta 展覽中，她與弗雷迪·費施利（Fredi Fischli）和尼爾斯·奧爾森（Niels Olsen）共同策劃了《Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House》（2024），並參與了多個展覽項目，包括由費施利、奧爾森和傑拉爾丁·泰德（Geraldine Tedder）策劃的《Unschöne Museen》（2023），以及由亞當·希姆齊克（Adam Szymczyk）策劃的《Life, Without Buildings》（2022）。在2023年，她獲得了阿爾弗雷德·里希特希基金會（Alfred Richterich Foundation）和瑞士藝術史學會頒發的藝術科學促進獎（Förderpreis Kunstwissenschaften）。
弗雷迪·費施利（Fredi Fischli）和尼爾斯·奧爾森（Niels Olsen）是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院（ETH）建築歷史與理論研究所（gta）的策展人和共同主任。他們共同從事建築、藝術、研究和教學交叉領域的項目，策劃了如《Unschöne Museen》（與傑拉爾丁·泰德共同策劃）、《Cloud '68: Collection of Radical Architecture》和《Home: A User's Manual or Book for Architects》等展覽。在2023年，他們在哈佛大學設計研究生院擔任約翰·波特曼（John Portman）建築設計評論家。
