Tabea Lurk: Tony Conrad. Video – und darüber hinaus (2015) [German]

“Celebrated as a musician, filmmaker, video and performance artist, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) achieved his breakthrough in 1966 with the experimental film The Flicker. In addition to his film work (including the so called Yellow Movies), his violin performances have also achieved broad recognition. This monograph focuses on about 70 video works produced by the artist since 1977, which previously have not been systematically studied. Beginning from Conrad’s earlier rather materialistic approach, in ‘A Videographic View of the Artist’s Vita’ the text follows the artist’s shift from experimental film to a more image-driven videographic approach. The chapter ‘Last Call for Video’ comments on Tony Conrad’s influential interaction with the Buffalo-based group of appropriation artists. Then ‘Video as Critique of Television’ interrogates the interplay between (video) art and society as a reflection of the telematic culture of the 1980s. The last chapter, ‘Video in Tension with Music’, returns to the beginning of the artist’s career and comments on Tony Conrad’s identity as a musician.”

Publisher Peter Lang, Bern, 2015
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN 9783034320375, 303432037X
450 pages

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PDF chapters
PNGs

Hito Steyerl: Duty-Free Art (2015) [Spanish/English]

This catalogue contains “a conversation between Hito Steyerl and João Fernandes, curator of the exhibition, an essay by Carles Guerra and Steyerl herself. Steyerl approaches current themes in her work, for instance the impact the proliferation of images and the use of the Internet and technology have on our lives. She uses these issues as a starting point for developing, not just through her video pieces but also through writing and essays, critical work about control, surveillance and militarisation, migration, cultural globalisation, feminism and political imagery, questions she believes have the capacity to create realities.”

Publisher Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2015
ISBN 9788480265300
173 pages

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Ulises Carrión: Dear Reader. Don’t Read (2016) [EN, ES]

“A key figure in Mexican conceptual art, Ulises Carrión (1941–1989) was an artist, editor, curator, and theorist of the post-1960s international artistic avant-garde.

Texts by Guy Schraenen, Felipe Ehrenberg and João Fernandes, among others, illustrate aspects of his artistic and intellectual work. From his early career as a young, successful writer in Mexico to his numerous activities in Amsterdam where he cofounded the independent artists’ run space In-Out Center and founded the legendary bookshop-gallery Other Books and So (1975–79), the first of its kind dedicated to artists’ publications.”

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at Reina Sofia, Madrid, March-October 2016.

Edited by Guy Schraenen
Publisher Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2016
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License
ISBN 9788480265393, 8480265396
267 pages

Exhibition
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English: PDF, PDF (19 MB), Issuu
Spanish: PDF, PDF (23 MB), Issuu