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Agnieszka Kurant
Newly commissioned texts on the work of the artist Agnieszka Kurant by Anselm Frank, Caroline A. Jones, Franco (Bifo) Berardi, and others. Agnieszka Kurant: Collective Intelligence explores the artist's work over the last ten years, examining her interdisciplinary practice, which focuses on collective intelligence—a phenomenon observed in bacteria, animals, social movements, internet, cities, and inside our brains—where novel forms emerge in unpredictable ways out of interactions among thousands of elements or agents in a complex system. This book brings together newly commissioned texts by some of the most renowned thinkers in their fields: curator and writer Anselm Franke, art historia...
Emergency Exit
The artists Agnieszka Kurant and Aleksandra Wasilkowska are representing Poland at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice 2010, August 29 - November 21, 2010. The Emergency Exit installation not only merges the disciplines of architecture and art within this project, it is the culmination of a collaborative dialogue between Agnieszka Kurant and Aleksandra Wasilkowska that unites their interests and professional experiences. While the installation itself offers a unique and challenging experience within the Biennale context, there is also a specific set of ideas and a particular discourse in which the project is rooted. The Polish Pavilion thus represents both a cultural and...
Joy Forever
The title Joy Forever refers to the false promise of a common happiness, constantly played out by the proponents of the creative class and creative economy the very promise that since Romanticism has been ascribed to art itself, a vow which remains unfulfilled. The aim of F/SUW s publication is to scrutinize the false promises of distributed creativity as an ideology of cognitive capitalism. The authors devote themselves to critical examination of the structural links between art, creativity, labour and the creation of value under contemporary relations of production. Some of them do not stop at a critical diagnosis but go further, reflecting upon potential alternatives to the status quo.
Tue Greenfort
Tue Greenfort: Garbage Bay is Tue Greenfort's first US solo exhibition and it deals with the art's role in reaffirming and dismantling assumptions about nature and the environment. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with texts by SculptureCenter Curator Ruba Katrib and Adam Kleinman.
The Great Migrator
Unlike other writers, who have viewed the export of American art during the 1950s and 1960s as another form of Cold War propagandizing (and famous American artists as cultural imperialists), Ikegami sees the global rise of American art as a cross-cultural phenomenon in which each art community Rauschenberg visited was searching in different ways for cultural and artistic identity in the midst of Americanization. Rauschenberg's travels and collaborations established a new kind of transnational network for the postwar art world---prefiguring the globalization of art before the era of globalization. --
Internal Necessity
This rich and extensive collection of writings, interviews, image spreads, letters,graphic essays and Skype conversations is the product of 2009's fertile''summer academy'' at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. Guest curator, the Berlinbasedwriter/curator Tirdad Zolghadr, surprised participants by canceling thescheduled annual ''fellow exhibition'' that summer. Instead, participants were askedto contribute to this book, which makes a strong argument for print publicationsas equally worthy sites of art production alongside studio practice and exhibitions.The cancellation ''did not stem from a boredom with art, nor even with its rituals,but simply from an impatience with the unquestioning exhibition routine that predominates,''writes Zolghadr. Featured writings include Bruce Hainley, Los Angleles,a contributing editor at ArtForum and professor at Art Center College of Design,Mmariangela Mendez Prencke, Bogota, Columbia, curator, professor and graduatefrom BARD College, Uriel Orslow, Swiss artist, and many, many more.
Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe
European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities understand and deal with their public spaces, how this interacts with market forces, social norms and cultural expectations, whether and how this relates to the needs and experiences of their citizens, exploring new strategies and innovative practices for strengthening public spaces and urban cultu...
Mirror Reflecting Darkly
Documenting the artistic practice of Rita Keegan: from exhibitions at major venues to everyday life as a working Black female artist. From the Bronx to Soho to Brixton, Mirror Reflecting Darkly is an exploration of the artist Rita Keegan's archive collection. Part autobiography and part critical history, it reproduces a cross-section of Keegan's archive, mapping an artistic practice that ranges from her exhibitions at such major museums and galleries as the ICA and the Tate to her curatorship of the Women of Colour Index, a groundbreaking 1987 initiative that documented Black and Asian women artists. It includes records of Keegan's journey through different creative environments of London in...
Brice Dellsperger's Body Double
Brice Dellsperger's Body Double is the first monograph ever published on the artist's already cult film productions, with a long essay by art historian Marie Canet that addresses filmic remake, but also issues of models, gender politics, and representational chaos. Consisting in a large body of unpublished images, the book also invites the reader backstage--as in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, after which this book is modeled--into the Dellspergian camp film factory, to get a closer look at the characters and personas that populate the Body Double series, and that are creations both of the artist and of his main performer and muse, Jean-Luc Verna. Co-published with Toastink Press
New Art and Science Affinities
"New Art/Science Affinities" was written and designed in one week by four authors (Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, and Pablo Garcia) and two designers (Thumb), using a rapid collaborative authoring process known as a "book sprint." The topic of "New Art/Science Affinities" is contemporary artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, with explorations into maker culture, hacking, artist research, distributed creativity, and technological and speculative design. Chapters include: Program Art or Be Programmed, Subvert!, Citizen Science, Artists in White Coats and Latex Gloves, The Maker Moment, and The Overview Effect. 60 international artists and art collaboratives are featured, including Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Atelier Van Lieshout, Brandon Ballengée, Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Openframeworks, C.E.B. Reas, Philip Ross, Tomás Saraceno, SymbioticA, Jer Thorp and Marius Watz. ISBN# 0977205347. Details: www.cmu.edu/millergallery/nasabook
