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Falling for Gravity - Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art (Paperback, New edition)
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Falling for Gravity - Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art (Paperback, New edition)
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This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists
have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade.
Necessarily focusing on material practices - chiefly sculpture,
installation, performance, and film - this discussion takes account
of how and why artists have used gravity and explores the
similarities between their work and the popular cultural forms of
circus, vaudeville, burlesque, and film. Works by Rodney Graham,
Stan Douglas, and Robert Smithson are mediated through ideas of
Gnostic doubt, atomism, and new materialism. In other examples - by
John Wood and Paul Harrison, Gordon Matta-Clark, Peter Fischli and
David Weiss, Trisha Brown, and Bas Jan Ader - mass and momentum,
falling objects, and falling bodies are examined in relation to
architecture, sculpture, and dance. In performances, projects and
events curated by Bruce Nauman, Santiago Sierra, and Catherine
Yass, gravity is resisted in Sisyphean ordeals and death-defying
stunts. This account of contemporary art and performance, read
through the invisible membrane of gravity, exposes new and
distinctive approaches to agency reduction, authorial doubt, and
redemptive failure.
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