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Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism
On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Art & Language, Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival (Mirosław Bałka, Jean-Luc Godard, Silvia Kolbowski, Boltanski, Atom Egoyan). Jones considers in particular the widespread nostalgia for ‘archival’ media such as analogue photographs and film. He analyses the innovative strategies by which such artefacts are incorporated, examining five distinct types of archival practice: the intermedial, testimonial, personal, relational and monumentalist.
Smith/Stewart
Since 1993, Smith/Stewart have produced a series of works that involve their bodies in a series of sensorially heightened communicative actions. This book documents the range of their work and includes two essays analysing their achievement.
Beyond the Image Machine
Beyond the Image Machine is an eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. Drawing on a range of hitherto and marginalised examples from the world of visual representation and the work of key theorists and thinkers, such as Latour, de Certeau, McLuhan and Barthes, David Tomas offers a disarticulated and deviant view of the relationship between archaic and new representations, imaging technologies and media induced experience. Rejecting the possibility of absolute forms of knowledge, Tomas shows how new media technologies have changed the nature of established disciplines. The book develops Tomas's own theory of transcultural space and makes several original contributions to current debates on the culture of advanced technology.
Francis Alÿs
"Based on a multimedia installation by Francis Alys, The Last Clown, tells the story of an unplanned meeting between a stroller and dog. While exploring randomness, Francis Alys reflects on the role of laughter and trickery in the creative process as well as on the multiple territories occupied by the artist. His work is at once enigmatic and ironic, grave and light. By way of the several forms in the artistic process, he also explores the role of the artist, and looks at the parameters that could define an artistic practice of today. Essay by Michele Theriault."
Documentary Protocols (1967-1975)
"Documentary protocols (1967-1975) is the third part of a major project that ... also included two exhibitions (Documentary protocols I and Documentary protocols II) presented at the Gallery in 2007 and 2008. This ....[was] conceived and developed by Vincent Bonin ... The publication Documentary protocols (1967-1975) ... constitutes an exercise in the critical examination of the nature of curatorial work and research at the Gallery ... It is an attempt to grasp and describe ... the paradigm of self-determination in Canadian art that emerged in the mid-1960s ... and the rupture that occurred in the mid-1970s between certain aesthetic positions and political objectives."--"Exhibiting research".
Point & Shoot
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The Particular Way in Which a Thing Exists
"The particular way in which a thing exists is a composite definition of form and is the starting and end point of an exhibition and book that examines ten years of artmaking by Martin Beck. Contributors Peio Aguirre, Manuela Ammer, Michèle Thériault and Beck himself address how social and material relations are negotiated from an artistic point of view that engages with categories of display, exhibition, history and popular culture."--P. [4] of cover.
Composites in Construction, a Reality
This collection contains 29 papers presented at an international workshop, held in Capri, Italy, July 20-21, 2001.
