Published by Brand: Witte de With Publishers, 2009
ISBN 10: 9073362849 ISBN 13: 9789073362840
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Taking off from Sadane Afif's 2008 Witte de With exhibition Technical Specifications, this volume examines the artist's practice in relation to music. In addition to tracing the evolution and reconfigurations of the works in the show, it includes documentation of Afif's radio show, 53:56--which broadcast related words and songs.
Published by Brand: Witte de With Publishers, 2007
ISBN 10: 9073362695 ISBN 13: 9789073362697
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Brian Jungen is perhaps best known for his Prototypes for New Understanding (1998-2005), a series of reproduction Northwest Coast Aboriginal masks made from disassembled athletic shoes. That ingenious mash-up of two seemingly disparate hot commodities--globally branded footwear and revered First Nations artwork--reflects the artist's own hybrid cultural identity, as both a member of the Doig River band, a tribe in British Columbia's Dunne-za Nation, and a fixture of Vancouver's thriving art scene, a position recently cemented by a show at the Tate Modern in London. Other meldings of consumer goods and common materials through which Jungen has explored the exchange of goods, ideas and cultures include a basketball court made of sewing tables and a whale skeleton built from plastic lawn chairs. All represent the Postmodern, postcolonial world with aplomb and a sense of humor. Includes an interview with the important postcolonial theorist Homi Bhaba.
Published by Brand: Witte de With, 2004
ISBN 10: 907336258X ISBN 13: 9789073362581
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Anonymous deserted buildings have dominated the photographic work of Efrat Shvily since she began to frame Israel's architecture in her images in the early 1990s. The buildings, so disconnected from their surroundings, point to the problematic relationship between the Israelis and their land. Shvily's New Homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories is a series of black-and-white photographs of houses and neighborhoods, which sometimes seem more like models than real buildings. In her desolate photos, Shvily does not make it clear whether the buildings were once inhabited and are now deserted, currently inhabited, or soon to be occupied. The series arose in reaction to the large number of new settlements that were realized in Israel in the 1990s. Perhaps because of the speed of these new developments, combined with the fact that construction projects are used as a means to occupy territory, the people who live in these places seem estranged from the land that surrounds them--a state of being that Shvily captures in her photos.
Published by Brand: Witte de With, 2002
ISBN 10: 9073362539 ISBN 13: 9789073362536
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. In 2001, Rotterdam and Porto, the cultural capitals of Europe for that year, were besieged by international artists invited to design projects that explored these two cities and their spaces. The singular nature of each work in Squatters led to their installation as cell-like structures of mini-exhibitions, staking a claim on their urban sites and creatively reconceiving them.
Published by Brand: Witte de With, 2002
ISBN 10: 9073362539 ISBN 13: 9789073362536
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: New. In 2001, Rotterdam and Porto, the cultural capitals of Europe for that year, were besieged by international artists invited to design projects that explored these two cities and their spaces. The singular nature of each work in Squatters led to their installation as cell-like structures of mini-exhibitions, staking a claim on their urban sites and creatively reconceiving them.