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The videos whose explicit stills and transcripts are bound here
explore private experience within the public sphere, covering
everything from adolescent boys discussing their sexual experiences
to businessmen talking about the significance of money. This rising
Amsterdam-based artist will exhibit her work at the Brooklyn Museum
in 2007.
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Andrea Fraser (Paperback)
Museum Der Moderne Salzburg; Text written by Sabine Breitwieser, Andrea Fraser, Shannon Jackson, Sven Lutticken
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Discovery Miles 8 990
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Controversial, provocative, and at the same time poignantly
humorous. Andrea Fraser *1965 in Billings, Montana) is one of the
most influential and pioneering artists of her generation and has
been captivating her audience for more than thirty years. She
employs a wide range of media, including prints, photographs,
installations, and performances as well as texts and videos, time
and again reformulating the same question: what we all want from
art-the motivation behind Fraser's artistic production, how we view
it, and how the art market distributes it.The richly illustrated
catalogue allows tracing the artist for the first time from the
beginning of her career. It assembles the early Four Posters (1984)
as well as her famous performances, such as Museum Highlights
(1989), Inaugural Speech (1997), and Official Welcome (2001/03),
linking them with her most recent videos.Exhibition: Museum der
Moderne Salzburg, 21.3.-5.7.2015
Post 9-11, post Iraqi invasion, post (we wish) the War on
Terrorism, there is a great deal of interest in safety in the
public domain, both in the political realm and among the general
public. Individuals and society as a whole are increasingly
concerned with protection and security for themselves and their
material possessions. These newfound worries have repercussions for
the layout, design, and management of public and semi-public
places, imposing new demands on artists, designers, commissioners,
and policy makers. "Open 6 examines the root causes of the public
desire for safety. The authors consider theoretical and practical
scenarios, proposals and visions from the realms of art,
architecture, philosophy, and politics, in an attempt to lay bare
something of the modern-day safety paradigm. Alternatively, the
authors argue the need for new models. The contributors also
provide insight into the current state of the modern-day
practicalities of the aesthetics and ethics of safety in essays
which directly consider real places or (art) projects.
Omer Fast's video installation "The Casting" is based on interviews
held with a U.S. Army sergeant before his renewed deployment in
Iraq. Fast describes the project thus: "During several days he told
me two stories which I have interwoven. The first took place in
Bavaria and describes the sergeant's relationship with a German
girl who loves speed and self-mutilation. The second story takes
place outside Baghdad and deals with a bomb on the roadside and a
tragic mistake." Fast took these two stories and processed them
into a screenplay, which he then had interpreted by actors as a
series of silent tableaux. This succinct volume documents these
tableaux with numerous color photographs and includes a
conversation between the artist and Sven Lutticken, as well as a
text by Matthias Michalka.
"Open" 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined
in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public
and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors
consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of
information.
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