This book, with follows the eponymous exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg, is constructed as a story, with a prologue, four acts, and an epilogue: an intuitive journey through the voices of thirty-four artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist’s book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name. It features a commissioned essay by poet and translator Allison Grimaldi Donahue, as well as a reprint of the American poet Alice Notley’s 1991 essay What Can Be Learned From Dreams?
What if clay is the future and the future is clay? Curators Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos brought together a group of artists to think and create through this old, maleable and fascinating matter. The result was materialized in an exhibition and book format entitled Feet of Clay.
Catalog of the eponymous exhibition, held at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and curated by Andrea Bellini, this publication brings together a number of essays that explore the notion of metamorphosis from different perspectives. The catalog, like the exhibition, celebrates a world in constant transformation, where human nature is fluid and hybrid, open to change.
Ce catalogue de l’exposition éponyme, organisée au Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève sous la direction d’Andrea Bellini, rassemble plusieurs essais qui explorent la notion de métamorphose sous différentes perspectives. Le catalogue, comme l’exposition, célèbre un monde en constante transformation, où la nature humaine est fluide et hybride, ouverte au changement.
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist’s practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
Edited by Samuele Piazza and Nicola Ricciardi.
With original contributions from Samuele Piazza, Nicola Ricciardi, Tyler Coburn, and Claire Fontaine. Reprinted archive texts by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Diedrich Diederichsen, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Renate Wiehager, Reed Berkowitz, Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy, Andrea Bowers, and the Cultural Capital Cooperative.
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2021, English, softcover, 13 × 21 cm, 272 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-03-4
Vogliamo Tutto. Cultural Practices and Labor has its origin in the novel Vogliamo tutto (1971) by Nanni Balestrini, whose protagonist Alfonso Natella became the voice of an entire generation as well as the workers’ movements in 1968 Turin. In 2021, thirteen artists were invited to reflect on the change of labor in the contemporary context. The result is a sum of choral voices and practices, which together outline the peculiar transformative nature of labor and its socio-cultural context over a wide time span: from the impact of the Industrial Revolution to the post-industrial decline and the shifts of the digital era.
The book features two essays by Samuele Piazza and Nicola Ricciardi, curators of the eponymous exhibition at OGR Torino; new writing by the artists Claire Fontaine and Tyler Coburn; and archive texts selected by the artists in the show: Andrea Bowers, Pablo Bronstein, Claire Fontaine, Tyler Coburn, Jeremy Deller, Kevin Jerome Everson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Elisa Giardina Papa, Liz Magic Laser, Adam Linder, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Mike Nelson, and Renate Wiehager for Charlotte Posenenske.
The archive texts include the essays “Automation and the Invisible Service Function” by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora; “Audio Poverty” Diedrich Diederichsen; “Sabotage” by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; “Wages Against Housework” by Silvia Federici; “The Wreck of the Sea-Venture” by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker; “Charlotte Posenenske Mimetic Minimalism and Practicability” by Renate Wiehager; an excerpted texts from The Human Animal by Émile Zola; as well as the articles “A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon” by Reed Berkowitz; “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time” by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy; the “Letter of Protest, Frieze Art Fair, New York” by Andrea Bowers, and the “License Agreement” by the Cultural Capital Cooperative collective; the script from Erie by Kevin Jerome Everson; a conversation between David Green and Rick Smith, UAW Local 1112, and LaToya Ruby Frazier.
The editors
Samuele Piazza is Senior Curator at OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, in Turin. He curated Vogliamo Tutto and solo shows by contemporary artists such as Mike Nelson and Monica Bonvicini. He also founded and co-curated the experimental series Dancing is what we make of falling, an exhibition format mixing video screenings, talks and performances.
Nicola Ricciardi is the Artistic Director of miart – Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair since October 2020. From 2016 to 2020 he has been Artistic Director of OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, in Turin, where he organized over 20 exhibitions including solo shows by Tino Sehgal, Susan Hiller, Mike Nelson, Monica Bonvicini, and Trevor Paglen, among others.