Acconci’s Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book documents the different stages of the design, and places sketches and computer simulations next to remarkable photographs of models as well as shots of the finished island. An interview with Vito Acconci and a presentation of the diverse work by the Acconci Studio round off the book. In German and English.
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the artist’s work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, January – April 1999. Includes excerpts from Wojnarowicz’s writings and essays by Dan Cameron, Mysoon Rizk, C. Carr and John Carlin.
This publication sets out to make Mendieta's figure more public in order to secure her rightful place in the chronicle of contemporary art.
This richly illustrated catalogue presents a series of sequential color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been newly preserved and digitized in high definition for the 2015 exhibition, combined with related photographs, and reference still images from all of the artist’s 104 filmworks; together these illustrations sample the full range of the artist’s film practice from 1971 to 1981.
Exhibition dates: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota: September 15 – December 12, 2015.
Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain.
A collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Editor Chon A. Noriega collects ephemera gathered from Gamboa’s three-decade-long dadaistic career. The book includes interviews with artists, poetry, fiction, collaged images, documentation of public and staged performances, photographic portraits of Chicano men, and political writings, including an essay on public schools reflecting his son’s first year in kindergarten.
A clear-eyed critique of collegiate jurisprudence, in the era of campus corporatization, “less-lethal” weaponry, ubiquitous rape discourse, and litigious anxiety.
Film by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, for the LAUK Gathering, at Watershed, Bristol on 12 February 2015
Taking Dublin and Chicago as two contemporary urban sites for exploration, The MA in Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education) at the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) have partnered with Stockyard Institute (Chicago) to explore the physical, geographic and social fabric of the two cities.
Special Issue; Volume 25, Issue 3.
This companion book to the exhibition of the same name investigates California’s vital contributions to Conceptual art—in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists.
Part of “Negación y Utopía” (“Nagation and Utopia”), the first National Festival of Performance of Mexico, 6-29 November 2013, a platform showcasing work on Mexican identity and multicultural hybrids. This documentation includes recordings of the performance, exerpts, and interviews with the artist. Spanish language.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña talks viral infection, nomadic performance, immobility, psychomagic performance, and convalescence.
A detailed study of the role women artists played in the develpment and expansion of performance art
Exploring the life and works of Guy de Cointet who explored language through performance and visual art.
This collection features all 51 images from performance artist Eleanor Antin's epic visual narrative. Introduction by Henry Sayre
Surveys the evolving and diverse nature of nightlife in New York profiling over 30 artists
Catalogue from the 'Outbound: Passages from the 90s' exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, March 4 – May 7 2000, exploring contemporary art at the turn of the millennium
Catalogue comprising of the work of more than 65 artists, featuring a variety of media, from the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
This monograph includes both extensive visual documentation from throughout Vito Acconci's career and a wide selection of his writings.
How 1960s African American artists and many of their sympathetic peers addressed the struggle for racial justice in powerful works of art is examined across a pivotal decade.
A collection of key writings on choreography across the French, U.S and international dance scenes since the turn of the century.
Diaries of the artist David Wojnarowicz, capturing the emotional, sexual and political chaos of modern urban life.
David Wojnarowicz explores memory, the longing for love and sexuality in the specter of AIDS. Cartoons, paintings and writings.
A continuous 12-hour conversation / presentation about the US Constitution on election day in 2012.
Exhibition catalogue, Dallas Museum of Art
A compilation of personal stories that the artist had told in his performances over the previous decade.
Images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk.
Exhibition at LACE, Los Angeles, 27 September 2011-29 January 2012
Programme listing 11 days of performances and public works. 19-29 January 2012
Part of Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification.
Why the Smithsonian Institute has failed the basic tenets of a nation
This documentary portrait pays homage to New York’s ultimate antihero and the original King of the Underground.
Part essay, part chronicle, and part performance text about the new “global” culture, its main risks and contradictions, artistic and pop cultural products, major philosophical trends, and political dilemmas.
Borrowing Michel Foucault concept of ‘heterotopia’ to discuss the social and cultural functions of Highways Performance Space.
Review of Oguri and Renzoku performance art work.
Excerpts from Disappeared in America.
A Spanglish music drive-by that rifles on media as religion. 10 tracks.
Publication dedicated to pioneering curators; presents a collection of interviews.
Event / exhibition catalogue. July-September 2006, 18th Street Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
A project in the shape of the ultimate art scavenger hunt. Teams race across the city deciphering clues and gathering objects in order to try and win a cash prize and have their work exhibited in the museum.
Text-in-progress. Part of the borderless movement of citizen journalism.Find article in misc. folder 1.
Part 1 – 28:17; Part 2 – 24:41
Catalogue of The 1999 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award Exhibition (January-May 2001).
Explores the recent phenomenon of the satirical election campaign.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).