Miguel Ventura : NILC (New Interterritorial Language Committee)

Debroise, Olivier (editor); with Essays By Calvin Reid, Magalí Arriola, Cuauhtèmoc Medina, Naief Yehya, and an Interview with the Artist By Montserrat Albores

ISBN 10: 9686842497 / ISBN 13: 9789686842494

Published by Trilce Ediciones, Chapultepec, Mexico, 2004

About this Item

183 page monograph, lavishly illustrated, with essays primarily in English and Spanish. Softcover book, bound with illustrated stiff paper French fold covers. Binding is tight and solid, with minimal bumps and handling creases, and a bump to the base of the spine. Glassine wrapper is missing, but interior is clean and clear of markings. The artist presents a multi-lateral approach to his examinations and disseminations of the body and gender power relationships, utilizing his schizophrenic, infantilized female alter ego, Heidi Schreber.

Seller Inventory # 012065

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Miguel Ventura : NILC (New Interterritorial Language Committee)
• Publisher: Trilce Ediciones, Chapultepec, Mexico
• Publication Date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9686842497
• ISBN 13: 9789686842494
• Binding: Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Painting
  • Art: Conceptual Art
  • Art: Monographs

About this title

Synopsis

Olivier Debroise introduces this book as a review of the 13 years of artistic production by Miguel Ventura and his corrosive critique of the mechanisms of power through video, performance, and interactive multimedia installations, now scenarios for staging of his obsession with the transmutations of the body and the dissemination of a language based on the braids of Heidi Schreiber, Ventura's infantilized schizophrenic female alter ego.

NILC is a project that includes photographs on experimental subjects in strange dynamics, tables of illustrations as if to were used as an alphabet, official documents and t-shirts that corroborate the impact and institutionalism of the mission. All in all, it is a harsh and undermining campaign against major projects like the Inter-territorial Language Committee (ILC) of East Africa, which was responsible for the manipulation and standardization of spelling, grammar, and vocabulary in the Swahili language.

Ventura's art simply takes us to double-think the consequences of revolting with language, body, and power schemes and conceptions.

Text in English and Spanish.

About the Author

"Miguel Ventura (San Antonio, Texas, 1954) is a multidisciplinary artist. He studied at Princeton University and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but lives and works in Mexico City. His paintings from the early 90s were meditations on the breakdown of family, nations, borders and the individual. After that, he began to focus on interdisciplinary practices (drawing, photography, video, installation) in which he explored the implications of language as a device for power. He has exhibited in solo shows in Mexico, Spain, and Holland, and group shows in America and Europe. "