Böcker av Margot Norton

Recent film works from the international duo exploring cultural changeWorking together for a decade, artists Bárbara Wagner (born 1980, Brazil) and Benjamin De Burca (born 1975, Germany) produce films and video installations that feature protagonists engaged in cultural production. The duo typically collaborates with nonactors to make their films, from writing scripts to staging performances on camera. The resulting works are marked by economic conditions and social tensions present in the contexts in which they are filmed, giving urgency to new forms of self-representation through voice, movement and drama.Accompanying the exhibition at the New Museum--which focuses on projects that the artists filmed in Brazil over the past seven years, as well as a new commissioned piece featuring the theater group Coletivo Banzeiros--this volume includes a conversation between the artists and Margot Norton, as well as texts by Vivian Crockett, Bernardo Mosqueira and Wendelien van Oldenborgh.

Tracing a body of work by Alina Szapocznikow from 1962 to 1972, this book considers pivotal turning points in the Polish artist?s life and career. It considers her experimental approach to materials, ranging from plaster and bronze, to her groundbreaking use of polyester resin in the mid-1960s. Szapocznikow?s oeuvre maps her engagement with the human form, using body casting and particularly through the lens of her own body as it transformed from healthy to ailing. Featuring new photography, the publication aims to render the tactility and spatiality of these works in brilliant new detail.

A rich panorama of Athens' thriving contemporary art scenePublished on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition The Same River Twice, organized by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, this catalog features the work of over 30 Athens-based artists of all ages and nationalities. From underground happenings and activist orientations to the rise of artist-run spaces and the critical realm of self-published art zines and journals, The Same River Twice offers a portrait of a city with an artistic dynamism that continues to unfold as artists seek new models for creative output and exchange. Artists include: Eleni Christodoulou, Anastasia Douka, Pavlos Fysakis, Eva Giannakopoulou, Delia Gonzalez, Navine G. Khan-Dossos/GTSA, Lakis & Aris Ionas/The Callas, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Katerina Komianou, Panayiotis Loukas, Petros Moris, Rallou Panagiotou, Angelos Papadimitriou, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Rena Papaspyrou, Eftihis Patsourakis, Anastasia Pavlou, Yorgos Prinos, Kostas Sahpazis, Socratis Socratous, Eva Stefani, Valinia Svoronou, Iris Touliatou and others.