Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2013)

This catalogue explores the history of live, interactive, and video performances since the 1960s. Includes critical essays by the curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, as well as Yona Backer, Naomi Beckwith, Tavia Nyong’o, Clifford Owens, and Franklin Sirmans. Among the artists included are Papo Colo, Sherman Fleming, Coco Fusco, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady, Adrian Piper, William Pope.L, Dread Scott, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Edited by Valerie Cassel Oliver
Publisher Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2013
ISBN 1933619384, 9781933619385
144 pages
via CAM Houston

Reviews: Deborah Cullen (CAA, 2014), Diane Mullin (CAA, 2015).
Exh. review: Elena Tavecchia (Mousse, 2014).

Online companion
Exhibition (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2012-13)
Exhibition (Grey Art Gallery NYU, 2013)
Exhibition (Studio Museum Harlem, 2013-14)
Exhibition (Walker Art Center, 2014)
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See also article about Adrian Piper’s withdrawal from the show.

Katy Deepwell (ed.): Feminist Art Manifestos: An Anthology (2014)

“What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional mission statement, nor religious dogma; neither a poem, nor a book. As a form of literature, manifestos occupy a specific place in the history of public discourse as a means to communicate radical ideas. Distributed as often ephemeral documents, as leaflets or pamphlets in political campaigns or as announcements of the formation of new parties or new avant-gardes, manifestos above all declare what its authors are for and against, and ask people who read them to join them, to understand, to share these ideas. The feminist art manifestos in this anthology do all of these things as they explore the potential and possibilities of women’s cultural production as visual artists.”

Publisher KT press, London, 2014
ISBN 9780992693435
132 pages

Reviews: Susan Ballard and Agnieszka Golda (Australian Feminist Studies, 2015), Monika Kaiser (FKW, 2015, DE).

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OnCurating, 33: documenta. Curating the History of the Present (2017)

“On the occasion of documenta’s 14th edition, this special issue scrutinizes the ways in which the Kassel-based periodic exhibition has been contributing to curating the history of the present since its inception in 1955. The authors engage with questions of how documenta’s iterations played a significant role not only in the making of a history of contemporary art but also in the canon of the relatively young field of curatorial and exhibition studies.”

Contributions by Anna Sigrídur Arnar, Angela M. Bartholomew, Beatrice von Bismarck, Nanne Buurman, Anthony Gardner & Charles Green, Ayse Güleç, Kathryn M. Floyd, Walter Grasskamp, Kristian Handberg, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Susanne König, Vesna Madžoski, Nina Möntmann, Philipp Oswalt, Dorothee Richter, Elpida Rikou & Eleana Yalouri, Nora Sternfeld.

Edited by Nanne Burmann and Dorothee Richter
Publisher OnCurating.org, Zürich, June 2017
Open access
171 pages

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