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The Days of the Child Prodigy are Over

Artist/Author: Rakel McMahon, Bergpora Snaebjornsdottir | Reference: P2146 | Type: Publication

The Days of the Child Prodigy are Over is a project that began in 2011. It started with a dialogue between Rakel McMahon and Bergpora Snaebjornsdottir, a.k.a Wunderkind Collective, where one used drawings and the other texts to communicate. The aim being to explore the idea of the genius from the point of view of individual experience and its implicit absurdity – the conflict that arises when a person tries to search for meaning in a universe he or she can never understand the inherent meaning of.

Explosion! Painting as Action

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Magnus af Petersens | Reference: P2143 | ISBN: 978-3-86335-191-5 | Type: Publication

Explosion! Painting as Action encompasses an array of approaches to looking at the borderland between painting and performance, covering a whole range of playful experiments to aggressive risk-taking. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in 2012.

A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance

Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Catherine Wood | Reference: P2128 | ISBN: 978-1-84976-020-1 | Type: Publication

A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance takes a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title at the Tate Modern, 14 November 2012 – 1 April 2013.

David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape

Artist/Author: David Wojnarowicz | Reference: P2131 | ISBN: 978-0-89381-567-5 | Type: Publication

David Wojnarowicz's photography, painting, performance, and writing aggressively challenge authority and hypocrisy. Brush Fires in the Social Landscape brings us the voice of an artist who spoke to and for a generation wrestling with issues of sexuality, identity, and the fragility of life.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Women of the Underground: Art: Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves

Artist/Author: Zora von Burden | Reference: P2114 | Type: Publication

In a series of twenty-four candid interviews with influential women artists, author Zora von Burden gives some of the most influential cultural innovators of this generation a voice, and probes the depths of how and why they broke through society’s limitations to create works of outstanding measure.

Mark Morrisroe

Artist/Author: Mark Morrisroe, Various | Reference: P2095 | Type: Publication

Book based on the Mark Morrisroe Exhibitions, 2011-2013, featuring photos and commentary

Tatsumi Orimoto

Artist/Author: Tatsumi Orimoto | Reference: P2061 | Type: Publication

A collection of materials – posters, notes, drawings, programmes – mainly on two performances by the Japanese Artist – “Carrying a Baby Pig on my Back”; “Gaikotsu (Skull) Parade”. Miscellaneous printed material in large box.

Immutability and Fashion – Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings

Reference: P2016 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. Since the early 1980s, Chinese society has been reconstructed at a furious pace. The works presented here are concerned with the artists’ surrounding society and environment, as well as the question of how to establish a connection with the world ‘here and now’. Besides articles studying the various issues concerning the development of contemporary Chinese art, this publication also provides an introduction to each of the participating artists. In Chinese and English.

Disrupted Borders – An Intervention in Definitions of Boundaries

Editor: Sunil Gupta | Reference: P2015 | ISBN: 9781854890450 | Type: Publication

This book and the accompanying exhibition reflect on “otherness” in the attempt to escape from the European rhetoric of modernism endorsing a plurality of art-making practices.

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