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* Adam Nankervis, [http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=707 "A Stitch in Time: David Medalla"], ''Mousse'' 29, Milan, 2011. {{en}}/[http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?lang=it&id=707 {{it}}]  
 
* Adam Nankervis, [http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=707 "A Stitch in Time: David Medalla"], ''Mousse'' 29, Milan, 2011. {{en}}/[http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?lang=it&id=707 {{it}}]  
 
* N P James, ''David Medalla: Works in the World - Exploding Galaxy, The Bubble Machine'', Cv Publications, 2012, 64 pp. [http://www.thecentreofattention.org/dgsignals.html Excerpt]. Interview with Medalla explores his art, performance and poetry from 1960 in London and Paris to the present day. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hxmVFKUCezcC&printsec=frontcover]
 
* N P James, ''David Medalla: Works in the World - Exploding Galaxy, The Bubble Machine'', Cv Publications, 2012, 64 pp. [http://www.thecentreofattention.org/dgsignals.html Excerpt]. Interview with Medalla explores his art, performance and poetry from 1960 in London and Paris to the present day. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hxmVFKUCezcC&printsec=frontcover]
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==Catalogues==
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* ''David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos'', ed. & intro. Aram Moshayedi, forew. Ann Philbin, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, and New York: DelMonico Books, 2024, 207 pp. Text by Magalí Arriola, Nyah Ginwright, CJ Salapare. [https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2024/david-medalla-conversation-cosmos Exhibition], [https://www.museotamayo.org/exposiciones/en-conversacion-con-el-cosmos]. [https://delmonicobooks.com/book/david-medalla-in-conversation-with-the-cosmos/ Publisher]. Exh. review: [https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/627054/david-medalla-s-in-conversation-with-the-cosmos Lennard] (e-flux).
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* Guy Brett, [[Media:Brett Guy 1989 David Medalla From Biokineticism to Synoptic Realism.pdf|"David Medalla: From Biokineticism to Synoptic Realism"]], ''Third Text'' 3:8-9 (1989), pp 79-106. [http://doi.org/10.1080/09528828908576237]
 
* Guy Brett, [[Media:Brett Guy 1989 David Medalla From Biokineticism to Synoptic Realism.pdf|"David Medalla: From Biokineticism to Synoptic Realism"]], ''Third Text'' 3:8-9 (1989), pp 79-106. [http://doi.org/10.1080/09528828908576237]
  
* Guy Brett, ''[[Media:Brett Guy Exploding Galaxies The Art of David Medalla 1995.pdf|Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla]]'', foreword Dore Ashton, London: Kala Press, 1995, 216 pp, [https://archive.org/details/explodinggalaxie0000bret IA]. [http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/Details/27448]. Review: [http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1111/1467-8365.00075 Overy] (1997).
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* Guy Brett, ''[[Media:Brett Guy Exploding Galaxies The Art of David Medalla 1995.pdf|Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla]]'', forew. Dore Ashton, London: Kala Press, 1995, 216 pp, [https://archive.org/details/explodinggalaxie0000bret IA]. [http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/Details/27448]. Review: [http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1111/1467-8365.00075 Overy] (1997).
  
 
* John Albert Walker, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2043 Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain]'', I.B.Tauris, 2001.
 
* John Albert Walker, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2043 Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain]'', I.B.Tauris, 2001.

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David Cortez Medalla (23 March 1942, Manila, Philippines – 28 December 2020, Manila, Philippines) was a Filipino international artist and political activist. His work ranged from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation, and performance art.

He co-founded Signals London in 1964 and edited the Signals Newsbulletin until 1966. Medalla founded the Exploding Galaxy, an artists collective, in 1967 and from 1974-77 was chairman of Artists for Democracy, dedicated to supporting liberation movements worldwide. He lived and worked between London, New York and Paris.

Works

Publications

  • editor, Signals: Newsbulletin of the Centre for Advanced Creative Study, 10 issues, London: Signals Gallery, Aug 1964-Mar 1966; facsimile repr., index by Julian Zinovieff, London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1995. [1] [2] [3] [4] Review: Overy (1997).
  • planted. A report of the events leading up to and surrounding the arrest and committal to be tried before a judge and jury of 3 members of the Exploding Galaxy charged with being in possession of dangerous drugs, ed. Paul Keeler, London: Exploding Galaxy, 1968, 142+73 pp.
Interviews
  • Adam Nankervis, "A Stitch in Time: David Medalla", Mousse 29, Milan, 2011. (English)/(Italian)
  • N P James, David Medalla: Works in the World - Exploding Galaxy, The Bubble Machine, Cv Publications, 2012, 64 pp. Excerpt. Interview with Medalla explores his art, performance and poetry from 1960 in London and Paris to the present day. [5]

Catalogues

  • David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos, ed. & intro. Aram Moshayedi, forew. Ann Philbin, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, and New York: DelMonico Books, 2024, 207 pp. Text by Magalí Arriola, Nyah Ginwright, CJ Salapare. Exhibition, [6]. Publisher. Exh. review: Lennard (e-flux).

Literature

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