Böcker av Julian Jason Haladyn

Published as part of The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan, the first curated project to bring together and examine Hassan's use of moving image art forms, this richly illustrated book represents an important new avenue of research into one of Canada's most prominent artists. The catalogue examines in detail nine films and videos produced by Hassan over her career. These films and videos are discussed and contextualized within Hassan's artistic practice through a series of texts - including an introduction by Julian Jason Haladyn, two major essays by Laura U. Marks and Miriam Jordan, along with an opening statement by the artist - as well as extensive visual documentation relating these works to the installations or projects from which they are derived. The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan is published by PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts and Art Gallery of Windsor in association with Blue Medium Press.

Boredom and Art examines the use of boredom as a strategy in modern and contemporary art to resist or frustrate the effects of consumerism and capitalism. This book traces the emergence of what Haladyn terms the will to boredom in which artists, writers and philosophers actively attempt to use the lack of interest inherent in the state of being bored to challenge people. Instead of accepting the prescribed meanings of life given to us by consumer or mass culture, boredom represents the possibility of creating meaning: ';a threshold of great deeds' in Walter Benjamin's memorable wording. It is this conception of boredom as a positive experience of modern subjectivity that is the main critical position of Haladyns study, in which he proposes that boredom is used by artists as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.