Facing the Sublime in Water, CA - Softcover

Armory Center For The Arts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893900088 ISBN 13: 9781893900080

Publisher: Ram Publications, 2014

Synopsis

From the environmental devastation of the Salton Sea to the walling off of the LA River, water where it comes from, who controls it has been a troublesome issue in Southern California, writes Sharon Mizota in the LA Times. From such desperation, however, can spring constructive outcomes. Artists Nicole Antebi and Enid Baxter Blader created the fictive utopian city of Water, CA in a web-based project, evoking a semi-plausible environmental nirvana. That project (the starting point for an exhibition, lending library and series of public programs) assembled scientific and poetic material from artists, environmentalists and historians addressing the history and representation of water through the lens of artistic production. In the resulting exhibition, works from Judie Bamber, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Emilie Halpern, Charles Long and others meditate on our aquatic obsession. This unusual catalog features a collaged poster cover, program documentation and texts from Nicole Anteb, Enid Baxter Blader, Irene Tsatsos and Marie Shurkus.

Published by the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

About this edition

• Publisher: Ram Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1893900088
• ISBN 13: 9781893900080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Irene Tsatsos