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À la croisée de l'histoire et de la théorie de l'art, des sciences sociales et des pratiques artistiques, ce volume collectif réengage une approche des objets nourrie des enjeux de leur agency et de leur biographie sociale, révélant la complexité des interactions dont les objets sont les agents.
Objets à l'état vif : Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
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À la croisée de l'histoire et de la théorie de l'art, des sciences sociales et des pratiques artistiques, ce volume collectif réengage une approche des objets nourrie des enjeux de leur agency et de leur biographie sociale, révélant la complexité des interactions dont les objets sont les agents.
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Published in Icelandic in 1994, ''Under the Wings of the Valkyrie'' is the work that established Sjón's literary career. Short and intense, the story unfolds through a letter from Icelandic architect Fridjón B. Fridriksson to his wife, revealing his lifelong obsession with German militant Gudrun Ensslin, of the Baader-Meinhof gang. He first glimpsed her on TV as a child(...)
Under the wings of the Valkyrie
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Published in Icelandic in 1994, ''Under the Wings of the Valkyrie'' is the work that established Sjón's literary career. Short and intense, the story unfolds through a letter from Icelandic architect Fridjón B. Fridriksson to his wife, revealing his lifelong obsession with German militant Gudrun Ensslin, of the Baader-Meinhof gang. He first glimpsed her on TV as a child and now Ensslin lingers in his dreams and has become the defining fixture of his psyche. To break free from Ensslin, and salvage his marriage, Fridjón resorts to drastic measures. Disturbing yet captivating, ''Under the Wings of the Valkyrie'' blurs the lines between passion and madness, fantasy and reality.
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Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to produce work that was politically oriented, rooted in the Black experience, and written for the Black community. Engaging(...)
Any day now: toward a Black aesthetic
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Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to produce work that was politically oriented, rooted in the Black experience, and written for the Black community. Engaging with fiction, music, drama, and poetry in his texts, he challenged the dominance of the Western art-historical canon and charged Black artists and writers with reshaping artistic traditions according to their own history. As he proclaimed in his essay "The Black Writer’s Role," written in 1966, "Black writers must listen to the world with their whole selves––their entire bodies. Must make literature move people. Must want to make our people feel, the way our music makes them feel."
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"A shadow of a man in the mirror" present stills taken from the 1934 experimental film "Hands" captioned with 'subtitles' created using image-to-text software. The captioning program, NeuralTalk, is one of the first machine vision models designed to write sentences that describe images' contents rather than simply identifying the objects present within them. This book(...)
A shadow of a man in the mirror
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"A shadow of a man in the mirror" present stills taken from the 1934 experimental film "Hands" captioned with 'subtitles' created using image-to-text software. The captioning program, NeuralTalk, is one of the first machine vision models designed to write sentences that describe images' contents rather than simply identifying the objects present within them. This book exposes the limits of object recognition technologies; the inaccurate outcomes make explicit the unstable relation between images and what they are deemed to represent. An accidental poetry often arises from the erratic space of the machine.
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Geologic listening
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Author Sukhdev Sandhu and filmmaker Deborah Stratman explore critical debates around the Anthropocene, monumentality, and the politics of audibility by turning to geology as an experimental pedagogy and an archive. Drawing on speculative fiction and forensic non-fiction, contributors extend Stratman’s long standing engagement with the politics of landscape and,(...)
Geologic listening
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Author Sukhdev Sandhu and filmmaker Deborah Stratman explore critical debates around the Anthropocene, monumentality, and the politics of audibility by turning to geology as an experimental pedagogy and an archive. Drawing on speculative fiction and forensic non-fiction, contributors extend Stratman’s long standing engagement with the politics of landscape and, collectively, ask, How can we begin to formulate a progressive politics—or even a vision of the future—by listening to the Earth?
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The question posed by the title of this book seems even more relevant for young artists today than it did in 2020, when it was first published in French. Presented as a manual, the book shares a number of tips and tricks that have enabled art professionals to progress in the period after their studies. The short, often ironic and sometimes even humorous instructions(...)
How to survive after art school? Comment survivre après l'école d'art ?
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The question posed by the title of this book seems even more relevant for young artists today than it did in 2020, when it was first published in French. Presented as a manual, the book shares a number of tips and tricks that have enabled art professionals to progress in the period after their studies. The short, often ironic and sometimes even humorous instructions written in the imperative mood provide pieces of the answer to the big question./ Cet ouvrage partage un ensemble de combines, trucs et astuces qui ont permis à des travailleurs et travailleuses du milieu de l’art de s’en sortir après l’école. Ces courtes consignes rédigées à l’impératif présent nous livrent, non sans ironie, quelques éléments de réponse à cette grande question : comment survivre après l’école d’art?
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Archipelagic effects
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"Archipelagic affects" explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical, and geopolitical connections between different island countries. Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist Huang Chong-Kai, the book interweaves visual and textual(...)
Archipelagic effects
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"Archipelagic affects" explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical, and geopolitical connections between different island countries. Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist Huang Chong-Kai, the book interweaves visual and textual materials created in different time-spaces. Together, they form a shared travelogue that documents how cultures and worlds cross paths through an art residency experience.
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In "The Aquarium is a Listening Glass", nine short, non-linear stories—set amid scientific archives, underwater research stations, natural history museums, national aquaria and oceanic infrastructure—evoke the glass as a listening device to present singular relationships between humans and fish that would otherwise go unheard. In this paradigm shift, design plays a(...)
The aquarium is a listening glass
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In "The Aquarium is a Listening Glass", nine short, non-linear stories—set amid scientific archives, underwater research stations, natural history museums, national aquaria and oceanic infrastructure—evoke the glass as a listening device to present singular relationships between humans and fish that would otherwise go unheard. In this paradigm shift, design plays a fundamental role in conceiving the object (and the book) as a sensory device to glimpse new forms of mediation, to generate alliances, and also to promote the potential for a thriving and vital world.
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''A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine'' explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine's experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory,(...)
A user's manual to Claire Fontaine
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''A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine'' explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine's experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory, this book delineates a series of theoretical techniques and procedures at the core of the artist's work, among them defunctionalization, Institutional Critique, human strike, tactile mimesis, desubjectivation, détournement, magic materialism, and feminist materialism.
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Saké Blue: Selected Writings
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Nobody writes about art like Estelle Hoy. Overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows for discussion of the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges or quiet melancholy. To her, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics(...)
Saké Blue: Selected Writings
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Nobody writes about art like Estelle Hoy. Overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows for discussion of the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges or quiet melancholy. To her, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics by Arthur Russell, the posthumous sorrow of Sylvia Plath or a poem by Yvonne Rainer. "Saké Blue" gathers Hoy’s critical essays and reviews, primarily on women artists. Echoing the work of Hervé Guibert or Camille Henrot, Hoy’s writing suggests that art can be the place for subjectivities to take shape in relation to forms, ideas and the other.
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