{"product_id":"writing-in-space-19732019-9781478011132","title":"Writing in Space 19732019","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume contains statements, scripts, and previously unpublished notes charting the development of her performance work and conceptual photography; her art and music criticism that appeared in the Village Voice and Artforum; critical and theoretical essays on art and culture, including her classic \"Olympia's Maid\"; and interviews in which O'Grady maps, expands, and complicates the intellectual terrain of her work. She examines issues ranging from black female subjectivity to diaspora and race and representation in contemporary art, exploring both their personal and their institutional implications. O'Grady's writings-introduced in this collection by critic and curator Aruna D'Souza-offer a unique window into her artistic and intellectual evolution while consistently plumbing the political possibilities of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lorraine O'Grady's work has always been driven by embodied experiences, questioning the construction of identity and what it means to be human. This extraordinary volume charts O'Grady's fascinating musings on these subjects, tracing and shedding new light on her impressive forty-year career whilst highlighting the urgency and continued relevance of her work in our current moment. O'Grady once told me, ‘Everything I do could be a book’; this publication goes some way toward meeting that possibility.” -- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries\u003cbr\u003e“Lorraine O'Grady is one of the foremost conceptual artists of the last century. \u003ci\u003eWriting in Space, 1973-2019\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable contribution to our appreciation of the breadth and innovation of her singular practice; it asks us to think beyond rigid boundaries that prevent a nuanced consideration of the mutually transformative power of ‘text’ and ‘image.’ O'Grady's practice creates new worlds, wherein photography, criticism, literature, and history leave the reader with a renewed sense of creative possibility.” -- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of O’Grady’s writing. Monumental texts, canonical essays, interviews, performance transcripts, and previously unpublished material form the edited volume, affirming both the range and reach of the artist’s significant impact upon an art world that has only belatedly recognized her. . . . The book establishes O’Grady’s literary brilliance that shines through her multifaceted creative practice, as she consistently pushes the art world toward deeper thought and political consciousness.\" -- Alexandra M. Thomas * Hyperallergic *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lorraine O’Grady’s importance as a performance artist has tended to overshadow her talent as a writer. Ahead of a Brooklyn Museum retrospective due next year, critic and art historian Aruna D’Souza put together a must-read volume featuring O’Grady’s shrewd musings on her own work, the intersections of Blackness and gender, and notions of visibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Alex Greenberger * ARTnews *\u003cbr\u003e\"A deeply nourishing account of her life, from the years preceding her full approach to artistry and criticism until recent times. . . . Such a collection, 46 years into O’Grady’s exceptional career, reflects how the art industry has long excluded Black women artists. It is a delicate and difficult read, and a manifestation of the many possibilities embedded in thoughtful collaboration between an artist and editor who have been longtime supporters of each other’s work.\" -- Tyra A. Seals * Art Papers *\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume is more than a collection of writing by an important artist whose work and thoughts have very belatedly come to larger attention. It is an extremely eloquent analysis of the New York art world since 1973 by one of the most articulate and profound conceptual artists to address questions of race, class, diasporic identity, non-Western philosophy and aesthetics and female subjectivity.\" -- Andrea Kirsh * The Art Blog *\u003cbr\u003e\"For nearly a half century, Lorraine O’Grady has produced a profound body of art and writing that reckons with and contests the logics of anti-Blackness, coloniality, and extraction that underpin cultural institutions. The texts anthologized in her new volume, \u003ci\u003eWriting in Space, 1973–2019\u003c\/i\u003e, immerse readers in O’Grady’s prescience. . . . The collection spans the four decades of O’Grady’s career with interdisciplinary writings that address questions of formal beauty in concept-driven art, interrogate where and how power operates in every part of the organization of museum space, and highlight Black avant-garde and abstract work.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Christina Sharpe * Art in America *\u003cbr\u003e\"An absorbing cover-to-cover read, no surprise considering the artist’s roots in literature.\" -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is astonishing for O’Grady’s way with words alone. We see how she refines her own artist biographies and the framing of her process over time. Her performance scripts are so richly detailed that they read like closet dramas.\" -- Rahel Aima * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\"[W]onderful and inspiring. . . . The collection of O’Grady’s erudite and charged writings spans 1973 to 2019; each entry contests and reimagines structures of power.\" -- Lisa Le Feuvre * The Art Newspaper *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: For Those Who \u003ci\u003eWill Know\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Aruna D'Souza  xix\u003cbr\u003e 1. Statements and Performance Transcripts\u003cbr\u003e Two Biographical Statements (2012 and 2019)  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCutting Out the New York Times (CONYT)\u003c\/i\u003e, 1977 (2006)  6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMlle Bourgeoise Noire 1955\u003c\/i\u003e (1981)  8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRivers, First Draft\u003c\/i\u003e, 1982: Working Script, Cast List, Production Credits (1982)  11\u003cbr\u003e Statement for Moira Roth re: \u003ci\u003eArt Is\u003c\/i\u003e . . ., 1983 (2007)  23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody Is the Ground of My Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, 1991: Image Descriptions (2010)  27\u003cbr\u003e Studies for a Sixteen-Diptych Installation to Be Called \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Evil and Good\u003c\/i\u003e, 1995–Present (1998)  30\u003cbr\u003e 2. Writing in Space\u003cbr\u003e Performance Statement #1: Thoughts about Myself, When Seen as a Political Performance Artist (181)  37\u003cbr\u003e Performance Statement #2: Why Judson Memorial? or, Thoughts about the Spiritual Attitudes of My Work (1982)  40\u003cbr\u003e Performance Statement #3: Thinking Out Loud: About Performance Art and My Place in It (1983)  43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNefertiti\/Devonia Evangeline\u003c\/i\u003e (1977) 50\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Cecilia Alemani: Living Symbols of New Epochs (2010)  53\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Amanda Hunt on \u003ci\u003eArt Is\u003c\/i\u003e . . .  (2015)  60\u003cbr\u003e On Creating a Counter-confessional Poetry (2018)  64\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e Black Dreams (1982)  69\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Linda Montano (1986)  77\u003cbr\u003e Dada Meets Mama: Lorraine O'Grady on WAC (1992)  84\u003cbr\u003e The Cave: Lorraine O'Grady on Black Women Film Directors (1992) 88\u003cbr\u003e Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity (1992\/1994)  94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMlle Bourgeoise Noire\u003c\/i\u003e and Feminism (2007)  110\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hybridity, Diaspora, and Thinking Both\/And\u003cbr\u003e On Being the Presence That Signals an Absence (1993)  115\u003cbr\u003e Some Thoughts on Diaspora and Hybridity: An Unpublished Slide Lecture (1994)  119\u003cbr\u003e Flannery and Other Regions (1999)  126\u003cbr\u003e Responding Politicially to William Kentridge (2002)  131\u003cbr\u003e Sketchy Thoughts on My Attraction to the Surrealists (2013)  136\u003cbr\u003e Two Exhibits: The Diptych vs. the Triptych (1998) and Notes on the Diptych (2018)  139\u003cbr\u003e Introducing: Lorraine O'Grady and Juliana Huxtable (2016)  142\u003cbr\u003e 5. Other Art Worlds\u003cbr\u003e A Day at the Races: Lorraine O'Grady on Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Black Art World (1993)  169\u003cbr\u003e SWM: On Sean Landers (1994)  176\u003cbr\u003e Poison Ivy (1998)  181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black and White Show\u003c\/i\u003e, 1982 (2009)  184\u003cbr\u003e Email Q\u0026amp;A with \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e Editor (2009)  198\u003cbr\u003e My 1980s (2012)  203\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRivers\u003c\/i\u003e and Just Above Midtown (2013, 2015)  213\u003cbr\u003e 6. Retrospectives\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Laura Cottingham (1995)  219\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Jarrett Earnest (2016)  239\u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003eMlle Bourgeoise Noire\u003c\/i\u003e Project, 1980–1983 (2018)  250\u003cbr\u003e Job History (from a Feminist \"Retrospective\") (2004)  260\u003cbr\u003e First There Is a Mountain, Then There Is No Mountain, Then . . . ? (1973)  269\u003cbr\u003e The Wailers and Bruce Springsteen at Max's Kansas City, July 18 1973 (1973)  278\u003cbr\u003e Notes  287\u003cbr\u003e Index  311\u003cbr\u003e Credits","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408990216535,"sku":"9781478011132","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478011132.jpg?v=1730504992","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-in-space-19732019-9781478011132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}