Dave Hullfish Bailey, Sam Watson

Dave Hullfish Bailey, Sam Watson
Author: Rex Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art metal-work
ISBN: 9783956792984

CityCat Project 20062016 documents the extraordinary 10-year collaboration between California artist Dave Hullfish Bailey (b. 1963) and senior Aboriginal writer and activist Sam Watson (b. 1952). Structured around the Maiwar Performance, for which CityCat ferries on the Brisbane River execute unannounced maneuvers near a 19th-century Aboriginal site, the performance has been restaged over the years as an act of indigenous empowerment. The subject of this slender publication is an evolving body of playful, yet politically and intellectually resistant works in diverse media reflecting the call-and-response collaboration between Watson and Bailey. CityCat Project curator David Pestorius contributes an essay and detailed timeline on the activities of Bailey and Watson before and throughout their collaboration. Art historian Sally Butler reflects upon Watsons literary production and curator Michele Helmrich sheds light on the local historical context that significantly informs the collaboration. Two past publications by Dave Bailey include Whats Left (Sternberg Press, 2009) and Union Pacific (1999), both distributed by RAM.

Art as a Political Witness

Art as a Political Witness
Author: Kia Lindroos
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3847409735

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson
Author: Amelia Barikin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3956793978

Lines towards Another is the first anthology on the work of Australian contemporary artist Tom Nicholson. Spanning drawing, sculpture, public actions, sound, installation, video, and performance, Nicholson's work since the 1990s has engaged with critical questions around history, politics, narrative, and representation. Informed by the colonial history of Australia, and motivated by the work of Aboriginal Australian activists, his practice at its most fundamental level examines the role of images and monuments as both catalysts and potential barriers for the creation of histories, reimagining their forms through modes of commemoration. Presenting new research on the artist and providing an unprecedented overview of two decades of work, the book features eleven essays and two interviews, alongside richly illustrated project pages and texts by the artist. Copublished with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Contributors Amelia Barikin, Tony Birch, Bridget Crone, Jacqueline Doughty, Anthony Gardner, Anneke Jaspers, Ryan Johnston, Helen Hughes, Raafat Ishak, John Mateer, Shelley McSpedden, Mihnea Mircan, Grace Samboh, Ann Stephen

Domestic Orbits

Domestic Orbits
Author: Frida Escobedo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture and society
ISBN: 9786079796976

"Frida Escobedo's Domestic Orbits is a speculative essay of critical cartography that explores how the domestic space is configured around orbits of exclusion that shape the trajectories of domestic workers. How is the space articulated according to specific gendered, classist, and racist configurations of the social sphere? Organized through a series of case studies that range from the 1950s until today in Mexico City, Domestic Orbits looks at the different scales by which domestic labor is erased by architects and planners. It studies the architectural plans of five well known projects from a perspective that aims highlight the social and economic relationships involved. In that sense, Domestic Orbits sketches a counter-history of modern architecture that questions the duality of the visible and invisible: those who count and those whose not."--Page 4 of cover.

Girl Culture

Girl Culture
Author: Lauren Greenfield
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781452159287

Revealing and insightful, Lauren Greenfield's classic monograph on the lives of American girls is back in print. Greenfield's award-winning photographs capture the ways in which girls are affected by American popular culture. With an eye for both the common and the eccentric, she visits girls of all ages, discussing issues ranging from eating disorders and self-mutilation to spring break and prom. With more than 100 mesmerizing photographs, 18 interviews, and an introduction by social and cultural historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg, this book is as vital and relevant now as when it was first published.

Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl
Author: Hito Steyerl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014
Genre: Installations (Art)--Germany
ISBN: 9783956790577

Hito Steyerl is rightly considered one of the most exciting artists working today who speculates on the impact of the Internet and digitization on the fabric of our everyday lives. Her films and writings offer an astute, provocative, and often funny analysis of the dizzying speed with which images and data are reconfigured, altered, and dispersed, many times over, accelerating into infinity or crashing into oblivion. 0Published to accompany the artist’s survey exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, this book gathers a series of essays and close readings of Steyerl's films from the past ten years. Newly commissioned texts by Sven Lütticken, Karen Archey, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Nick Aikens, alongside writings by Thomas Elsaesser, Pablo Lafuente, David Riff, and Steyerl, are spliced with over one hundred pages of color stills. This publication is a charged slideshow of the artist’s extraordinary investigations into the status, circulation, and materiality of images.

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley
Author: Kehinde Wiley
Publisher: ROBERTS & TILTON
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780991488995

Portraits of young African American St. Louis men and women whose poses are derived from paintings (and, in one case, sculpture) in the St. Louis Art Museum's collection.

Volume One

Volume One
Author: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Publisher: MCA Store
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2012
Genre: Art, Australian
ISBN: 1921034548

"The work features over 280 works by more than 170 Australian artists drawn from a period of acquisitions which began with the consitution of the MCA in May 1989."--p. 17.

For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat that Isn't There

For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat that Isn't There
Author: Anthony Huberman
Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The KGB grooms a charming young American to run for president Although in the mid-1940s no one had ever heard of JFK, Jack Adams's mother insisted her new son be christened John Fitzgerald. Years after his parents' death, Jack learns the reason for his name: a packet of photos showing his mother in bed with young John Kennedy. As a student at Columbia University, Jack demonstrates that he inherited more than JFK's good looks. His irresistible charisma and political instinct make him a natural campus leader, but he has his sights set on something bigger than the student council. Young Jack Adams wants to be president of the United States, and the Soviet Union is prepared to help. A KGB spy named Dmitri recruits Jack, promising him the presidency in exchange for treason. Dmitri guides Jack for decades, putting him in a position to become the largest intelligence coup in history--unless the candidate's libido derails him first.