Digital, video and new media arts Books
Leuven University Press Francis Alys. The Nature of the Game
Book SynopsisThe first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children’s Games, a series of works by artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959). The ongoing project, which now numbers around thirty-five works, has gradually given shape to an extensive collection of videos of children at play. For almost twenty-five years, Alÿs and his collaborators Félix Blume, Julien Devaux, and Rafael Ortega have been travelling around the world to document the distinctive ways in which children interact with each other and their physical environment. They have gone from remote villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Nepal to the mountains of Switzerland and metropoles like Hong Kong and Paris, but have also visited the war-torn city of Mosul in Iraq, the border between Mexico and the United States, and the strait of Gibraltar that divides Africa and Europe. The resulting images are standing proof of the seriousness of play and of children’s stunning powers of resilience in the face of conflict.This volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective to the many layers of Children’s Games. It includes an interview with Francis Alÿs and Rafael Ortega, a series of essays by well-known scholars and art critics, curatorial statements, and a logbook related to the presentation of Children’s Games at the Venice Biennale of 2022.Contributors: Francis Alÿs (artist), Gerard-Jan Claes (filmmaker, artistic director of Sabzian), Tim Ingold (anthropologist, University of Aberdeen), Zeynep Kubat (art historian, curator and writer), Karen Lang (art historian, Royal Society of Arts), Rafael Ortega (artist), Rodrigo Perez de Arce (architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Juan Martín Pérez García (Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (REDIM), Giulio Piovesan (journalist and photographer), John Potter (media education, University College London), Virginia Roy (curator at the University Museum of Contemporary Art of the National Autonomous University of Mexico), Stéphane Symons (professor of philosophy, KU Leuven), Hilde Teerlinck (Han Nefkens Foundation /curator of the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2022).Ebook available in Open Access.Table of ContentsPrefaceFrancis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game Gerard-Jan Claes and Stéphane SymonsInterview with Francis Alÿs and Rafael Ortega, Nov. 9, 2022 Gerard-Jan Claes and Stéphane SymonsChildren’s Games. A Reflection on the Work of Francis Alÿs Tim IngoldFrancis Alÿs. Children’s Games Karen LangNot a Playground Rodrigo Pérez de Arce AntoncicA Space to Play Zeynep KubatEntering the Game Virginia RoyThe Right to Play Juan Martín Pérez GarciaThe Echo of the Children’s Games Hilde TeerlinckCurating Connection and Cultural Memory. Reflections on an Encounter with The Nature of the Game at the Venice Biennale in 2022 John PotterSharing the Game Giulio PiovesanIllustration Credits Acknowledgements
£27.55
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Rinus van de Velde Films
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£96.38
MER Paper Kunsthalle Koen Theys HomeMade Victories
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£31.05
Onomatopee Image in the Post-Millennium: Mediation, Process
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£16.00
Valiz Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and
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£25.17
Rab-Rab Press About Narration
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£11.40
Talisman Publishing See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of
Book SynopsisSee Me, See You is the world’s first-ever retrospective survey of early video installation in Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the early 1990s. This catalogue traces the journeys and evolving identities of the ten artists featured in the exhibition and their pivotal experiments with the moving image, which variously incorporate readymade objects and cathode-ray tube television monitors as well as performative and participatory elements. Their artworks encapsulate the techniques and materials of their generation and mark the emergence of video installation as a form in the region. The publication features interviews, essays, rare archival images and texts, as well as a timeline that highlights the definitive moments and inventions that propelled video installation in global and regional contexts.
£24.00
National Gallery Singapore Residues and Remixes
Book SynopsisThis publication for the exhibition SAM Contemporaries: Residues & Remixes contextualises the curatorial approach and featured artistic practices and expands on the ideas explored in the show. Expanding on ideas explored by the artworks in the exhibition SAM Contemporaries: Residues & Remixes, this publication contextualises the show's curatorial approach and the featured artistic practices through documentation, field-notes, scholarly essays, speculations and conversations of various forms (and formalities) between artists and curators.
£12.60
Independently Published Paperback Celluloid: Elmore Leonard on FIlm
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£11.63
Insight Editions Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher
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£46.80
Insight Editions A Minecraft Movie From Block to Big Screen
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£28.80
Wave Books Unexplained Presence
Book Synopsis***Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON*** In Tisa Bryant''s Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic (re)creation, Bryant''s prose traverses like a tracking shot through John Schlesinger''s Darling, Patricia Rozema''s Mansfield Park and Virginia Woolf''s Orlando, giving voice to characters whom have otherwise been structurally silenced. As Pulitzer-prize winning author Margo Jefferson aptly points out in her afterword, Tisa Bryant doesn''t merely write about film; she is an "auteur," a "cultural anthropologist," and a "virtuosic critic-artist." Since its original publication with Leon Works in 2007, Unexplained Presence has been foundational among poets,
£17.09
Whispering Wind Media, Inc. Every Note Tells a Story: The Transformative
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£21.59
Primary Information Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
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£16.15
Primary Information Tiffany Sia: On and Off-Screen Imaginaries
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£15.20
