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Cover from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Cover from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Cover from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Cover from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Cover from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Cover from Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant, edited by William Stewart / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
An excerpt from the discussion ‘From Representation to Presence’, at Fondation Louis Vuitton, 23 January 2015. Eliasson discusses his collaboration with Michel Bitbol, a French researcher in the philosophy of science, as well as the book they created together, called 'Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant'. Participants included Olafur Eliasson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Bosse, Michel Bitbol, and Claire Denis.
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A lecture exploring the blind spot of science, given by Michel Bitbol to open the winter semester 2013/14 at the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), Berlin University of the Arts, 14 October 2013

Olafur Eliasson created the drawings that appear between the pages while developing his solo exhibition Contact, held at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 17 December 2014 to 16 February 2015

Publication details

Type

 Artist's book

Title

 Never Known but Is the Knower / Jamais connu, il est le connaissant

Designer

 Tsovinar Vina Rostomyan

Text author

 Olafur Eliasson Michel Bitbol

Text editor

 Anne-Claire Juramie William Stewart

Translator

 Claire Debard

Publisher

 Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin

Language

 English / French

ISBN-13

 9783000480607