Anchored in artistic practice, this vibrant collection of essays and writings spans a period from 1992-2017 and the work of leading artists such as Adel Abdessemed, Richard Avedon, Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, Omer Fast, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Alfredo Jaar, Glenn Ligon and Shen Yuan. A key figure in British and international art, Gilane Tawadros draws difference to the surface, recuperating it as a potentially radical frame through which to understand contemporary art and the everyday world. Playing with forms of writing, from critical analyses to fictional narratives, the book functions as a practice-based meditation on how to write about contemporary art.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Leftovers of Translation
1. But What is the Question? Art, Research and the Production of Knowledge
2. Extra-Extra: Interview with Raul Ortega Ayala
3. Dissonant Chorus
4. Shen Yuan: The Leftovers of Translation
5. Voices Off: Interview with Susan Hiller
Part II: The Banality of Difference
6. ‘We are the Martians…’
7. Van Leo: Self-Portraits
8. Shirani Shahbazi: The Banality of Difference
9. A Case of Mistaken Identity: Notes from the Scene of the Crime
10. Electrifying Eve
Part III: Re-siting the City
11. The Real Me
12. Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting
13. Alfred’s Favourite Tree
14. The Leopard
15. Maps of Desire
Part IV: Studies in a Post-colonial body
16. The Revolution Stripped Bare
17. Studies in a Post-colonial Body
18. Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art
Part V: Relocating the Remains: History and Representation
19. Strangers and Barbarians: Representing Ourselves and Others
20. Telling Tales: Keith Piper’s Relocating the Remains
21. Sweet Oblivion
22. Godville: Interview with Omer Fast
Part VI: Going Global
23. Going Global: 4th International Istanbul Biennial
24. Detonations: Jonathan Hernández and the Rongwrong series
25. Modern Europeans
26. Slipping Away (or Uncompliant Cartographies)
Part VII: Transmission Interrupted
27. Interruption in Four Acts, or Disappearing Irises, Broken-down Buses and Ceramic Citroens
28. Egypt at the Venice Biennale: 1967 and The Year That Changed
Everything
29. From Zero to Infinity: The Work of Adel Abdessemed
30. Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left
31. Dissonant Divas: Sonia Boyce, Sound and Collaboration
32. A Thousand and One
Index
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In a collection of her key writings, Gilane Tawadros sheds new light on contemporary art in a globalised world, addressing issues such as difference, representation, (mis-) translation and art writing.
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Brings together in one thematic volume key writings of a major figure from the contemporary art world
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781788314091
Publisert
2021-02-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Vekt
1102 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
350
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