Prof. Dr. Emanuele Quinz
Emanuele Quinz is an Art and Design Historian and Curator, PhD, Associate Professor at Paris 8 University and at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), Paris.
His research focuses on contemporary art theories and practices crossing disciplines, like visual, media and performing arts, music and design. Since 2012, together with Samuel Bianchini, he has been coordinating the Behaviors research project (Labex ArtsH2H, EUR Artec, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou). He is the author of »Le cercle invisible. Environnements, systèmes, dispositifs« (Les presses du réel, 2017), and editor of several international publications.
As a free-lance curator, he curated the international exhibitions »Invisibile« (Siena, 2004), and with L. Marchetti »Experience Design« (Bolzano, 2005), »Dysfashional« (Luxembourg 2007, Lausanne 2008, Paris 2009, Berlin, Moscow 2010, Jakarta 2011), and »Basic Instincts« (Berlin, 2011, Arnhem, Shenzhen 2012).
Monographs & Books
Quinz, E. 2020. Contro l’oggetto. Conversazioni sul design. Macerata: Quodlibet.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Bianchini, S., Quinz, E. 2019. »Maintenance, maintenant, main tenant.« Centre Pompidou, Paris. In La Fabrique du vivant. Mutations Créations, edited by Brayer, M.-A., Zeitoun, O. Orléans: Editions Hyx, 104-115.
Events & Workshops
Quinz, E., Ribault, P. (moderators), Saraceno, T. (co-organizer), Chiaramonte, X., Hengge, R., Jäger, P., Jarry, A., Jordan, A., Müller, M. (guests). »Dissect« – An artistic research on a more equal balance of human- techno- and biodiversity. Discussion about Tomás Saraceno's Spiders. Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École polytechnique, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 4 November 2022.
https://berlinscienceweek.com/de/event/dissect-2/
Bianchini, S., Freire, M., Quinz, E., Ribault, P., Guiducci, L., Razghandi, K. Morphostructures: life-like behavior in material systems. Centre Pompidou, Paris. 15 March 2019 - 17 March 2019.