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Elmgreen & Dragset : Inconvenient Truths
Art Review Issue 26 / October 2008
pg. 74-81
Feature on Elmgreen & Dragset : Inconvenient Truths
sin∞fin Trilogy
A trilogy of hybrid art films of collaborative performances in epic locations around the world. Included the three films (Performances at the End of the World, Performances at the Holy Centre, Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass) and a text about the project.
The Religion of the Future
An argument for both spiritual and political revolution, the book proposes the content of a religion that can survive faith in a transcendent God and in life after death.
Animals
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
The essays in this book – some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources – look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre.
State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious
Explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to Do Participatory Action Research
Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Miranda July’s Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism
The first in-depth study of July’s work provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class.
Perambulator documentation
Documentation from a performance project, which made visible issues around walking with a pram. Through a series of pram walking events around Huntly–town and country–Clare tried to make visible this, and other spaces, and their fitness for people with young children.
Includes the programme and blog posts.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
Public art: a reader
In this new English edition of the handbook over sixty curators, art historians, and artists take a critical look at the theme of the significance and potential of public art.
