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Labour in a Single Shot
This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.
Queer Post-Cinema
The pioneers of what has been labelled New Queer Cinema laid the foundation for a Queer Post-Cinema — a movement in which artists experiment with technology in innovative ways. Through original readings of Todd Haynes’s early films, Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana’s videos and installations, Su Friedrich’s digital video Seeing Red, Charlie Prodgers’s iPhone film Bridgit, and Claire Denis’s science-fiction film Highlife, this monograph shows how artists are creating a new form of resistance in the time of the digital image and generative AI.
REALTY
How to transcend land grab economies, even by means of art? The reader REALTY moves from the safety of critique to the vulgarity of suggestions. The pandemic's effect on mobility presents a historic opportunity. Rarely has criticism of our extractive artworld logic of one-place-after-another been louder. REALTY is a long-term curatorial program by Tirdad Zolghadr (*1973), initially commissioned by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. With the help of numerous artists and experts who contributed over 2017–2020, this reader revisits how contemporary art can contribute to decisive conversations on urbanism.
Renée Green
Über zwei Jahrzehnte hinweg hat sich Renée Green in ihrer außergewöhnlichen multimedialen Kunstpraxis fortlaufend mit der Beziehung zwischen Ästhetik und Macht auseinandergesetzt. Ihre Filme, Skulpturen, Schriften, Fotografien, Druckgrafiken und Soundarbeiten untersuchen und beleuchten unterrepräsentierte Geschichten von Migration, Vertreibung, Ethnografie und kultureller Repräsentation. Dieser außergewöhnliche Künstlerkatalog zeigt Greens Werk in seinen vielen Facetten und kombiniert frühe und undokumentierte Kunstwerke mit neueren Arbeiten, begleitet von einer Vielzahl von Texten neuer Autoren, die ihr Kunstwerk für ein zeitgenössisches Publikum rekontextualisieren. Das Buch erlaubt die einzigartige Einsicht in einen Prozess, in dem Sehen und Wissen in neue Konstellationen gebracht werden.
Beatriz Gonzalez, 1965-2017
Publié à l'occasion de la première rétrospective européenne de l'artiste au CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, du 23 novembre 2017 au 25 février 2018 ; au Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia de Madrid, du 22 mars au 2 septembre 2018 ; et au KW Institute for Contemporary Art de Berlin en 2018. Artiste emblématique et fondamentale de la scène artistique d'Amérique latine, Beatriz González a marqué des générations d'artistes et de penseurs. Son travail, qui dépasse les limites de la peinture par la multiplicité des supports utilisés, convoque l'histoire, la politique, l'humour, le privé et le public.
James Richards
The first extensive publication and solo museum exhibition for fast-moving British video, sound and installation artist James Richards (b. 1983) is a lyrical meditation on the body as a site for the flow of material and sensations. In place of a traditional catalog, Richards has produced an image-driven artists book through the use of collage. Selected fragments from multiple sources including recent museum shows, re-create on paper the highly affective visual effects of his videos which combine footage from a wide range of sources such as newscasts, medical documentaries, and French erotica as well as each institutions own archives of video documentation. Richardss video works have been shown at the New Museum, NY, The Walker Art Center and will be included in the upcoming Whitney Biennial 2017. The exhibition toured in 2016 to Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (2016 -17). Essays from Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima
Art Expanded, 1958-1978
Focusing on two of the most fervent and experimental decades in recent art history, Art Expanded, 1958-1978 delves into a transformational period when artists around the world collectively began to challenge, critique, and upend traditional media and disciplines. This second volume of the Living Collections Catalogue offers new critical histories of works in the Walker's collections and provides deep access to its unique archival materials. New writings on Joseph Beuys, Lynda Benglis, Tony Conrad, Merce Cunningham, Fluxus, Barry La Va, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Smith, and others testify to the era's innovations and its unruly spirit of artistic reinvention.
