Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us (2012)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · action art, art, experimental music, fluxus, happening, music, performance, performance art, sound
“Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us is a retrospective of the artist’s career, which now spans nearly fifty years. The exhibition includes both early and recent work by the artist that range from annotated scores and books to painting and sculpture. Video documentation from performances and audio files of Patterson’s music will also be featured. As a founding member of Fluxus, a loose and international collective of artists who infused avant-garde practices of the day with humor and anarchic energy, Patterson helped revolutionize the artistic landscape at the advent of the 1960s and usher in an era of new and experimental music.”
With essays by Bertrand Clavez, Charles Gaines, Jon Hendricks, George E. Lewis, Fred Moten, Benjamin Patterson, and Marcia Reed; and chronology by Meredith Goldsmith.
Edited by Valerie Cassel Oliver
Publisher Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2012.
ISBN 9781933619293, 1933619295
268 pages
via publisher
Dan Lander, Micah Lexier (eds.): Sound by Artists (1990)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, sound, sound art
Essays on sound art by writers and artists including Bruce Barber, John Cage, Ihor Holubizky, Douglas Kahn, Christina Kubisch, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Ian Murray, Rita McKeough, Max Neuhaus, and many others. The book contains 35 essays and projects as well as a 21-page discography of sound recordings by artists.
Publisher Art Metropole, Toronto, and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff/Alberta, 1990
ISBN 0920956238
385 pages
Book trailer (video, 10 min, 2013)
Review: Vanessa Nicholas (MagMag, 2014).
Publisher
2013 facsimile reprint (now out of print)
WorldCat
PDF (100 MB, no OCR)
Selected sections in HTML: Introduction by Dan Lander, A Selection of Recorded Works by Artists (on UbuWeb)
Baylee Brits, Prudence Gibson, Amy Ireland (eds.): Aesthetics After Finitude (2016)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, anthropocene, fiction, human, immanence, noise, philosophy, sound, subject, theory
“Traditionally aesthetics has been associated with phenomenal experience, human apprehension and an appreciation of beauty—the domains in which human cognition is rendered finite. What is an aesthetics that might occur ‘after finitude’?”
Contributions by Marc Couroux, Prudence Gibson, Thomas Sutherland, Lendl Barcelos, Douglas Kahn, Adam Hulbert, Baylee Brits, Stephen Muecke, Laura Lotti, Christian R. Gelder, Simon O’Sullivan, Tessa Laird, Chris Shambaugh (and Maudlin Cortex), Chaim Horowitz, and Amy Ireland.
Afterword by Justin Clemens
Publisher re.press, Melbourne, Dec 2016
Anamnesis series
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License 2.5
ISBN 9780980819793, 0980819792
241 pages
Conference (2015)
Publisher
WorldCat