Art Journal 42(2): Words and Wordworks (1982)

Special issue of the journal, devoted to “works of visual artists who work with words.”

With contributions from Tony Rickaby, Howardena Pindell, Sol LeWitt, Art & Language and the Red Crayola, Davi Det Hompson, Daniel Buren, Iain Baxter, John Fekner, Ian Breakwel, Henry A. Flynt, Jr., Lawrence Weiner, Ben, Guerilla Art Action Group, Les Levine, Jenny Holzer, John Baldessari, and Hans Haacke.

Edited by Clive Phillpot
Publisher College Art Association of America, Summer 1982
ISSN 0004-3249
48 pages

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Stephen Wright: Toward a Lexicon of Usership (2013)

“Toward a Lexicon of Usership serves as a toolkit for naming a new form of both artistic and political subjectivity – that of usership. Divided into words that Wright feels ‘should be retired’ such as expert culture, ownership and the disinterested spectator alongside ‘emergent concepts’ like 1:1 scale, loopholes and museum 3.0, Wright introduces ‘modes of usership’ that are becoming ever more prevalent and pertinent today: hacking, gaming and the final term of the lexicon – usership, to name just three.”

Published on the occasion of Museum of Arte Útil.

Publisher Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Dutch License
ISBN 9789490757144
68 pages

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Excerpt from Polish edition

Trinh T. Minh-ha: Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event (2010)

“Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders–as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee—in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is welcome where? What does it mean to feel out of place in the country you call home? When does the stranger appear in these times of dark metamorphoses? These are some of the issues addressed by the author as she examines the cultural meaning and complexities of travel, immigration, home and exile. The boundary, seen both as a material and immaterial event, is where endings pass into beginnings. Building upon themes present in her earlier work on hybridity and displacement in the median passage, and illuminating the ways in which ‘every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries,’ Trinh T. Minh-ha leads her readers through an investigation of what it means to be an insider and an outsider in this ‘epoch of global fear.'”

Publisher Routledge, 2010
ISBN 0415880211, 9780415880213
vii+139 pages
via Neda

Author’s talk on Said’s work (audio, 18 min)

Reviews: Shinhyung Choi (Dark Matter 2011), Delila Omerbašić (Journal of Refugee Studies 2013).

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