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Animals
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
Creating Ourselves: Works from the ISelf Collection
From Surrealist selfies to feminist self-portraiture, the ISelf Collection explores identity and the human condition through the central themes of birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy. Taking the display of the collection at Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at the question of the self in modern and contemporary art, and the ways in which artists are thinking about being and identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world.
Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics
One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, the collection surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Moving Image
This anthology examines the expanded field of the moving image in recent art, tracing the genealogies of contemporary moving image work in performance, body art, experimental film, installation and site-specific art from the 1960s onwards.
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s
Catalogue comprising of the work of more than 65 artists, featuring a variety of media, from the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Study Room Guide / LADA Anthology: Dangerous Border Crossings (with thanks to Guillermo Gómez-Peña)
Themed collections of performance documentation and works for camera projects addressing issues of borders/border crossings
Archivo Activo
Articles, documentation, blogs, and archive materials from the Pinto mi Raya Archivo Activo between 1991-2001.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff 40 Years of Art Walking
Publication to coincide with exhibition, 2013. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
The Art of Walking
The first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
BilderBedarf - Braucht Gesellschaft Kunst? /The Civic and the Arts
Accompanying text for the BilderBedarf Exhibition 2012-13, Cologne, Germany; exploring the effects of works of art in relation to civil society