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This catalogue documents a two-part project that included an exhibition with works by Eadweard Muybridge and Jan Dibbets, together with a documentary created by Chris Dercon for Dutch television on the history and future of cinema. Photographic images of the exhibition and film stills from the documentary are elucidated by accompanying texts written by prominent critics.
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From #2 features a series of short essays which provide an art historical and theoretical context for the Witte de With's exhibition program, and will investigate and represent the European cultural identity as seen through the practice of contemporary art.
This publication is the result of a special collaboration between Witte de With, centre for contemporary art, Rotterdam, and one of Rotterdam's most iconic photographers, Otto Snoek. Its overriding ambition is to engage with the city via visual images and narratives, thereby testing the book form as site of urban portraiture. A native of Rotterdam since birth, Snoek has documented the city as a diverse social space in striking, colour images. The book comprises 51 recent photographs from Snoek's long-term photo essay 'Hometown', which is his ongoing documentation of Rotterdam that he began in 1997. Central to the new images in the publication is the 'mix' of the 174 cultures coexisting in th...
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Selection and translation of the articles appeared in various journals in various languages.
What kind of a reader does an artist make?This publication marks the conclusion of Para Fictions, a two-year commissioning series in which ten artists -Dineo Seshee Bopape, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Mark Geffriaud, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Laure Prouvost (2013 Turner Prize winner), Oscar Santillan, Lucy Skaer, and Rayyane Tabet- responded to works of literary fiction.Deploying strategies of allusion, vandalism, mistranslation and appropriation, the participating artists approached texts by writers such as Bessie Head, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Virginia Woolf.In the publication, invited writers and curators respond to each work, completing a circle between text and object...