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Daniel Joseph Martinez
"Daniel Joseph Martinez (b.1957) is an internationally exhibiting artist who grew up in Los Angeles. For over thirty years, he has divined sociopolitical fault lines in the American psyche and carefully placed conceptual and perceptual explosives into them. This volume, with essays by Michael Brenson, Hakim Bey, David Levi Strauss, Gilbert Vicario, Lauri Firstenberg, Arthur C. Danto, Linda Norden, and Rachel Leah Baum,chronicles selected works from 1978 to 2008, concentrating on the work of the past sixteen years-from his controversial intervention in the 1993 Whitney Biennial to his Divine Violence piece in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and including his contributions to the SanJuan Triennial in 2004, the Cairo Biennale in 2006, and the Moscow Biennial in 2007. A variety of further installations, text works, paintings, photographs, sculptures, animatronics, and videos complete the catalogue." --Book Jacket.
The Things You See when You Don't Have a Grenade!
Of the work and ideas of Daniel J. Martinez, Peter Sellars has said: "[He is] one of the most important and articulate artists of his generation. Impossible to pin down, a genuinely free spirit, he is actually fearless. What medium does he work in? Life. Where will he strike next? Who knows?" This volume documents every major project Martinez has completed to date and includes his controversial and thought-provoking public art pieces. His cross-media cultural production is conceptual in its approach to photography, video, film, sculpture, and language in installation, performance, and public art. Adding depth and commentary to this complex body of work are critics and curators David Levi Strauss, Coco Fusco, Mary Jane Jacob, Susan Otto, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, and Roberto Bedoya.
Wounds of the Tongue
One of the most important young artists to have emerged from Los Angeles in the 1990s, Manuel Ocampo updates the tradition of political allegorists like Gericault, Goya, and Daumier. In this beautifully illustrated catalogue, Ocampo's exuberant works incorporate high and low, academic and popular, sacred and secular images and texts-creating supercharged canvases with a blatant disregard for stylistic and idiomatic consistency. Gutsy, bold, and filled with sociopolitical critique, Ocampo practices the art of the alchemist: "Transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art, purgatory into salvation." Essays by Chon Noriega and Kevin Power, and a conversation between Ocampo and Daniel J. Martinez. Edited by Pilar Perez.
Cercanias Distantes
Documents the travelling exhibition entitled: Distant relations/Cercanias distantes/Clann i gCéin: a dialogue amoung Chicano, Irish and Mexican artists.
The Bodies That Were Not Ours
Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. This volume gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work. Engaging and provocative, these essays, interviews, performance scripts and fotonovelas take readers on a tour of our current multicultural landscape. Fusco explores such issues as sex tourism in Cuba as a barometer of the island's entry into the global economy, Frantz Fanon's theorization of metropolitan blackness, and artistic and net activist responses to the effects of free trade on the Mexican populace. She interviews such postcolonial personnae as Isaac Julien, Hilton Als and Tracey Moffatt. Approaching the dynamics of cultural fusion from many angles, Fusco's satires, commentaries, and sociological inquiries collapse boundaries, and form a sustained meditation on how the forces of globalization impact upon the making of art.
El libro de las decisiones: una guía para darse cuenta
Creo firmemente que la respuesta al "ser o no ser" de Hamlet está relacionada en una estrecha dependencia con decidir o no decidir. Uno es o no es en la medida que decida o no decida. Decidir es trascendental, desde el mínimo acto al despertarse por las mañanas, hasta las grandes decisiones que cambian el rumbo de la vida de un individuo, y a veces de la misma humanidad. En estas páginas trato de explicar lo que origina, modifica o impide nuestra forma de decidir: necesidad de aprobación, una mirada al niño interior, vínculos, conflictos, amor, rencor, perdón, fobias, pánicos, el valor de uno mismo... Alguien dijo alguna vez que "somos lo que pensamos", pero yo me animaría a disentir: pues creo que en verdad "somos lo que decidimos". Uno puede pensar lo que desee, pero lo que importa es lo que hace, y lo que hacemos está relacionado directamente con nuestras decisiones. Lo demás es solo pensamientos, deseos, fantasías, proyectos. Te invito a que decidas, a ponerte en marcha.
