Pop Politics: Activisms at 33 Revolutions, catalogue (2012) [English/Spanish]

The catalogue for an exhibition held at Madrid’s CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo from November 2012 to April 2013, curated by Iván López Munuera.

“The point of departure for Pop Politics is that the political agenda of the visual arts has in many occasions inherited and expanded the experiences of music. The exhibition shows how many artists and art theorists have from their own personal practice visited music, whether as makers, consumers, or critical agents. The exhibition is situated on the margins of the formal consideration of politics, that which refers to forms of government and processes of representation, the taking of decisions and their administration.” (from the Introduction)

With texts by Amparo Lasén, Ferrán Barenblit, Greil Marcus, Ivan López Munuera, José Manuel Costa, Kim Gordon, Lucy O’Brien, Peio Aguirre, and Simon Reynolds.

Publisher CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2012
ISBN 9788445134481
304 pages

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The Edge of Reason, catalogue (2011)

The exhibition The Edge of Reason, curated by Norwegian and London-based artists Sidsel Christensen and Ben Judd in 2011 in the KinoKino centre in Sandnes, Norway, explored notions of authenticity and belief, inviting viewer to have a first-hand experience of a world beyond the senses.

Christensen and Judd invited artists whose work helps to trace a historical overlapping in the development of the empirical and scientific with the irrational and mystical. The artists in the exhibition presented a duality of experience, by moving in-between a sceptical enquiry and a more internalised visionary engagement to explore the unknown.

Artists: Sidsel Christensen, Marcus Coates, Maya Deren, George Gurdjieff, Susan Hiller, Ben Judd, Hilma af Klint, Susan MacWilliam, Oscar Muñoz, Karen Russo (with Jeremy Millar, Shezad Dawood, Mark Titchner), Jane and Louise Wilson.

The catalogue contains transcript of a 2011 séance contacting the Swedish pioneer of abstract art and mystic Hilma af Klint (1862—1944; pages 16-23).

Publisher KinoKino Centre for Art and Film, Sandnes, Norway, 2011
56 pages

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A&F Quarterly: Back to School: The Sex Ed Issue (2003)

In 2003, Abercrombie & Fitch, an American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22, approached a philosopher and culture critic Slavoj Žižek to write ad copy.

Publisher Abercrombie & Fitch, New Albany/OH
126 pages
via Marcell Mars, via anorki

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