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Eleven artists reflect on the alarming entropy of the 21st centuryThis book presents works from 11 international artists responding to the current state of the world through themes of environmentalism, racism, political activism, globalization and digitalization. Artists include: Darren Almond, Oliver Beer, Julian Charri�re, David Claerbout, Bharti Kher, Teresa Margolles, Martin Puryear, Rayyane Tabet, and more.

"Chests fall up and down. Particles fow from inside the lungs into the open air. They comingle until pulled again into another chest. Quietly the bodies exchange gasses, heat, moisture. They create their own weather. Currents twist in the air until coming to rest in a pair of lungs, only to be expelled back into the rafters. All this is invisible. Nothing could be seen if there were eyes open to look. " -Becket Flannery Isabelle Andriessen investigates ways to physically animate inanimate (synthetic) materials in order to provide them with their own metabolism, behavior and agency. Her sculptures are agents inhabiting the liminal space between sculpture and performance, composed of materials that act and evolve, seemingly beyond control and often irreversibly. On the occasion of the exhibitions DORM (2021) and BUNK (2021), this publication brings together three distinct voices. Sci-fi writer and art critic Mark Von Schlegell contributes a short story in which an engineer is trying to locate a lost AI as a spaceship hurdles of course. In an autonomous photo series photographer Nikola Lamburov reimagines Andriessen's sculptures, capturing their processes in sticky, eerie and surreal landscapes. Through fractals, liquids, vapors and metals, curator Laura McLean-Ferris's essay traces the state changes that are enacted across Andriessen's works, and in doing so fnds systems of porous entanglement that fourish in a world without humans.

Road Back to Relevance surveys the last decade of Dan Rees' (born 1982) practice, compiling paintings, videos, installations and photography. Throughout these varied mediums, Rees explores a recurring preoccupation: the politics of taste.

Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema (born 1968) compounds organic and artificial detritus in his artwork. Using photographs and other objects that reference specific bodies of knowledge as starting points for his carefully crafted drawings and sculptures, he then films these images and objects, arranging and comparing both the physical works and the ideas, information and knowledge associated with them. Through his multistep, multimedia approach, Sietsema explores what it means to make art today, amid the barrage of images and the telescoping of past, present and future that instant access to information seems to provide. His film projects are both a consideration of time and how we apprehend it and an effort to return significance to the activity of image-making in an age of digital immediacy. This slim, clothbound hardcover is the first publication on Sietsema's film works, and includes stills from seven films accompanied by three curatorial essays.

This book documents seven installation-performances by American sculptor and photographer Corin Hewitt (born 1971), from 2007. The extensive collection of images--including preparatory sketches, process shots, exhibition documentation and discrete photographic works--constitutes a rich, comprehensive study of Hewitt's oeuvre.

Working in photography, film, sculpture, performance and installation, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) has established himself as one of the most original artists of his generation, with works that are at once visually seductive and conceptually challenging. This book documents Lassry's solo exhibition at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Italy. With an essay by Aram Moshayedi (Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles) and a conversation between the artist and Jörg Heiser (co-editor of Frieze magazine), it provides an in-depth critical examination of Lassry's work from the beginning of his career to the present.

Recent experiments in color, from a Japanese painter known for his grayscale paletteJapanese artist Tomoo Gokita (born 1969) is known for his monochromatic and grayscale figurative paintings. This latest body of work, made during lockdown, consists of bright, pastel-colored large-scale paintings portraying pinup models, female wrestlers and familial portraiture alongside mundane symbols embedded in our current reality.

Artists and writers on the aesthetic appeal of the unexpectedFirst presented in 2021 as a digital magazine in 12 issues, The Strangeness of Beauty was, after O Sole Mio, the second digital project curated by Ziba Ardalan during the repeated pandemic lockdowns. In it, artists and other art professionals consider how "strangeness" often produces beauty.

Composers, artists and writers from Alvin Lucier and Charles Curtis to Claudia La Rocco and James Fei discuss the lineages and politics of Minimalist musicFocusing on "phase shifting" in music (i.e. where two or more versions of a sound or motif are played simultaneously but slightly out of sync), particularly as it relates to artists whose practices run from the 1960s into the present, Marfa Sounding gathers writers, composers, sound theorists, art critics, dance historians, filmmakers, students, curators and archivists thinking through the intersection of music, Minimalism and the political.Artists include: Alvin Lucier and Éliane Radigue with Charles Curtis; Anna Halprin with Phillip Greenlief, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Nina Martin, and Stephen Petronio; Tarek Atoui with Amma Ateria, Jad Atoui and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.Authors include: James Fei, Jennifer Burris, Erik DeLuca, Ida Soulard, Maria Chávez, Janice Ross, Wendy Vogel and Claudia La Rocco.Conversations include: Andrew Abrahams with Cate Cole Schrim and Ian Lewis; Amma Ateria with Caitlin Murray; Jad Atoui with Claire Amiot; and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe with Anthony Elms.

A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley's politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writingsAmerican artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome. This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley's work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua's transdisciplinary approach, Kelley's oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

An engaging spiralbound portrait of Jesper Just's interactive theatrical spectacleCelebrated for his interactive piece Interpassivities (which premiered at BAM with music by Kim Gordon), the filmmaker, choreographer and performance artist Jesper Just (born 1974) has inaugurated a new style of Gesamtkunstwerk. This artist's book compiles visual documentation of his works.

A portrait of the overlap between politics and architecture at the US embassy in IranIn 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) photographed and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. Here, architect and educator Hamed Khosravi contributes an essay on social movements and architecture.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: La Promesse du Bonheur, curated by Chris Sharp with the scientific coordination of Cristiano Raimondi, held at Villa Paloma in Monaco June 29, 2018, through January 6, 2019, this catalogue is a critical overview of a key American Pop artist and an important opportunity to analyze specific aspects of his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze, and strategies of indeterminacy. Every aspect of the book's design, including its more than 170 color illustrations, is conceived to reflect on the artist's haptic, indexical painterly approach and oversize scale system.