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Gustav Metzger: Act or Perish! - A Retrospective
Accompanies the first extensive overview of Auto-Destructive art pioneer, organized in 2015–16 at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Kunsthall Oslo and Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983
Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.
Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest
Authors offer ways to fight today’s pervasive digital surveillance — the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects.
Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
The project received overwhelming worldwide attention and spawned provocative online debates; ultimately, Bilal was named Chicago Tribune’s Artist of the Year. Structured in two parallel narratives, the story of Bilal’s life journey and his Domestic Tension experience, Shoot an Iraqi is for anyone who seeks insight into the current conflict in Iraq and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming.
Personal mapping whose responsibility is it?
Discusses outcomes of the author's curatorial and research project Fear and Gender in Public Space.
TRANSACTIONS #2
Drawing threads from the meta to the micro level inevitably leads to a conversation about power – who has it, who doesn’t, who should have it, how it is adjudicated. TransActions #2 picks up on this context and sets out to pose questions for the field of socially-engaged art and education practice in 2017.
Venice Agendas 2017: The Contract
A newspaper publication for the programme of activity taking place in London, Venice, Margate and Folkstone, bringing together artists, curators and cultural contributions from around the world.
Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia
Exhibition catalogue; Arts Centre Melbourne, 11 February – 21 May 2017
4 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place
Publication accompanying the exhibition 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, 21 April-11 June 2017.
Dark Habits
Challenging and re-positioning the traditional exhibition catalogue as an artwork and commission in its own right, the pub;ication takes its inspiration from the classic Pedro Almodóvar film on the occasion of the group exhibition, La Movida at HOME, Manchester (14 April – 17 July 2017).
