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In the Wake of a Deadad: Andrew Kötting Andrew Kötting's In the Wake of a Deadad is a book like no other. It is a memoir, a demented exorcism, a mad travelogue, a compilation of different writers' meditations on death and a series of tragicomic elegies in the form of doodles and photos as well as prose. It is that rare thing: an art book that is not merely eye candy to be gawped at for a few minutes and then consigned to the coffee table, but a deeply moving work that merits several rereadings. In the Wake of a Deadad is stuffed with visual gags, photomontages, scans of the author's heart. Its formal messiness is strangely life- affirming, distinct as it is from the dry-autopsy mode of most father-son memoirs. The most un-English of books, it appears to be a series of bad-taste japes, but is in fact an exceedingly affecting and serious challenge to our received notions about how best to deal with death - and life. Only 1,000 copies of this beautifully designed and produced artefact have been published; snap one up while you can. --SUKHDEV SANDHU, New Statesman In the Wake of a Deadad is Kotting's powerful, often uncomfortable reflection on the recent death of his father. His Deadad. The book includes the replies of an Invitation to Write that Kötting sent out to 65 individuals. Each was encouraged to write in response to four photographs of Kötting's Deadad, including one of his dead body laid out in the chapel of rest. As well as Kötting's own musings and confabulations about the project there is an introduction and conclusion by Gareth Evans and contributions from the likes of Adam Chodzko, Laurence Coriat, Mark Cousins, Jem Finer, Tony Grisoni, Gregorios - Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, Sean Lock, Iain Sinclair, Dr Muhammad Shabbir Usmani, Janni Visman, Fay Weldon and Eden Kötting. This book accompanies an exhibition. Hardcover: 444 pages |
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Words Images Music (Nausea): Matthew Noel-Tod Audio CD and book published to coincide with the exhibition of Matthew Noel-Tod"s video Nausea (which is distributed by LUX) at Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK. July 2006. Illustrated with sequential images from the video. The book contains a CD of "Nausea Songs", the video"s soundtrack, composed by Thomas Stone of the group Merchant. Features an extended version of a previously published essay by Steven Ball and a newly commissioned essay by Rastko Novakovi. Nausea is funded by Arts Council England with support from Film London. Publication supported by Arts Council England and Outpost Gallery. Essays: "Motion Sickness" by Steven Ball; "Ab Nowseum" by
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Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors: Matthew Noel-Tod English and Polish language catalogue published to coincide with the residency of Matthew Noel-Tod at the a-i-r Artists in Residence laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. 2005-2006. The video produced during the residency, Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors (which is distributed by LUX), is discussed at length in this publication, with many contextualising illustrations designed to extend the project and underline the video. Contains an in depth analysis of the video"s reframing of Polish cinema via the films of Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kiezlowski to the Workshop of the Film Form. Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors takes as its starting point Polish cinema. Polish actors were invited to audition in Warsaw with dialogue from a favourite Polish film. The actors in Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors perform a series of moments from the films Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Man of Iron (1981) Dekalog 4 (1988) and Sequence of Feelings (1993). Polish actress Ewa Kasprzyk was invited to join the cast and re-perform her dialogue from Sequence of Feelings. During a process of revision and rehearsals, the words and characters from the original films became recontextualised into a new narrative, including actors and characters inhabiting multiple fictions and dramatic spaces. Aesthetic, sexual, historical and dramatic senses are manipulated to create a video that is a dialogue between artist and actors, between language and image, between past and present. Supported by an Arts Council England International Fellowship to a-i-r Artists in Residence laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. Essays: "Possession and Collision" by William Fowler; "A
Dream of Polish Cinema": Lukasz Ronduda and Matthew Noel-Tod
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The Sharpest Point: animation at the end of cinema The relatively new and constantly advancing technologies that allow the digital modification and rendering of film has cultivated an artistic climate in which even the most realistic cinematic representations are technologically contrived. These representations of reality may as well be considered animations - the world has become a cartoon. With special attention to the impact of Canadian works and writing in the context of the international cultural scene, editors Chris Gehman and Steve Reinke bring together a collection of critical essays and artist's projects that are indispensable for anyone who, in this digital era, has begun to question the modern cinematic experience. Contributors: Morishita Akihiko, Daniel Barrow, Zoe Beloff, David Clark, Daniel Cockburn, Percy Fuentes, Lia Gangiatano, Chris Gehman, Libby Hague, Pierre Hubert, Oliver Hockenhull, Louis Klahr, Norman M. Klein, Rosalind Krauss, Lev Manovich, Laura U. Marks, Stephanie Maxwell and Allan Schindler, Jude Norris, Steve Reinke, Tom Sherman, John Sobol, Bart Testa, Jim Trainor, Siebren Versteeg, and Steve Woloshen. pages: 288 |
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The animate! Book: Rethinking Animation animate! is a groundbreaking commissioning project established by Arts
Council England and Channel 4 to support risk taking and experimental
animation works for television. Exploding the traditional preconceptions
of what animation is and could be, animate! exists to break down barriers
and challenge expectations. The animate! book explores the vibrant discourses
round the project, taking it as a jumping off point for a wide ranging
exploration of the relationship between art and animation and the place
of animation and its concepts in contemporary art practice. Also Includes a DVD of 10 films commissioned by animate! Number of Pages: 160 pages |
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Analogue: Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88). Edited by Catherine Elwes and Chris Meigh-Andrews Exhibition catalogue of Analogue touring exhibition. Through a series of exhibitions, screenings, performances and discussions Analogue, aims to illuminate the early histories of artists' video, linking the work of artists in the UK, Canada and Poland in order to broaden an understanding of how, in the course of thirty years, a versatile and politically charged medium made the transition from the margins to the mainstream of contemporary practice. Includes artists biographies and essays by Sean Cubitt, Maggie Warwick, Lisa Steele, Peggy Gale and Lukasz Ronduda. Number of Pages: 107 pp |
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Argument: A Project by Anthony McCall & Andrew Tyndall An expanded new edition of Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall’s book, originally published in 1978 to accompany their film of the same name. The book features three essays by McCall and Tyndall (‘Sixteen Working Statements’, ‘Artist as Businessman’ and ‘Against the Numbers Theory’), which deal with filmmaking ,the politics of the image and the economic situation of artists. It also includes images from the film, contemporary responses and reviews, and a new introduction. Authors: Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall, with additional essays by
Jane Weinstock, David Himelfarb and Claire Pajaczkowska and a new
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Time Frames: Emily Richardson Published to coincide with the premiere screening of Emily Richardson’s film Aspect (which is distributed by LUX), commissioned jointly by Stour Valley Arts, Film London and Arts Council England with support from Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. September 2004. The book contains a CD of film soundtracks by Benedict Drew. Edited by Sandra Drew More information at www.emilyrichardson.org.uk |
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The Memo Book:
The Films and Videos of Matthias Müller Major new publication on the film, video and installation work of German artist Matthias Müller. Published in a bilingual (English/German) edition and illustrated in full colour, The Memo Book contains specially commissioned essays on different aspects of Müller's work as well as an extensive interview by Scott MacDonald. Matthias Müller, born in 1961, is a filmmaker as well as a visual artist working in video and photography. He began in the Super-8 movement, first drawing international attention with the ”Alte Kinder” film cooperative, founded in 1985. For over fifteen years his work has been seen at international festivals such as Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. The films and videos of Matthias Müller have received many prizes, including the Deutsche Filmkritik prize in 1991, 1997, and 2000; top prizes from the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the short and experimental film festivals in Madrid, Vila do Conde, Basle, and Ann Arbor; and the annual prize from the Verband der Deutschen Kritiker. His work has also been seen in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the documenta X and the Manifesta 3. Museums such as the Whitney Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the Musée du Louvre in Paris have shown Müller’s work. His films and videos are in the collections of such institutions as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Modern, London, and the Goetz Sammlung, Munich. Müller is represented by five different galleries in various cities: Berlin, Madrid, London, and New York. He was named professor for experimental film at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne in 2003. Authors: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (editor), Scott MacDonald, Dirk Schaefer, Michael Girke, Volker Pantenburg, Robin Curtis, Christa Blümlinger Date
of Publication: September 2005 |
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TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND "Two Films by Owen Land is much more than the texts of Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke, the two most complex films of Owen Land (aka George Landow). Mark Webber has scrupulously edited the first book on this major filmmaker, judiciously allowing Land's own words - his texts, his essays, hilarious annotations, and an interview - to reveal the depth and intensity of his engagement with cinema and other avant-garde film-makers. It is a very funny book: Land admits he has a been "converted more times than Uncle Ben's Rice," or speculated that Freud "would have bombed in Las Vegas" with the jokes in his book on Wit. The filmography alone constitutes a major contribution to the field." (P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film) Authors: Owen Land, edited by Mark Webber |
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Subjects and Sequences: A Margaret Tait
Reader Authors: Edited by Peter Todd and Benjamin Cook with contributions
by Ali Smith, Gareth Evans, Lucy Reynolds, David Curtis, Ute Aurand,
Sarah Wood, Janet McBain and Alan Russell. |
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Devotional Cinema Author: Nathaniel Dorsky |
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Reviews of Takahiko Iimura Book: A4 90 pages, black and white with illustrations
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Experiments in Moving Image (exhibition
catalogue) Authors: Jackie Hatfield & Stephen Littman (ed) |
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Hannes Schüpbach: Film solo With the sensibility found only in poets, the voices of Vincent Katz and Ulrike Draesner guide us through the experience of Schüpbach’s work and into the depths of personal resonance. A selection of film stills (in groups of 2 or 4 reproductions per page) represent interconnected motifs from the three films Portrait Mariage, Spin, and Toccata. The Swiss artist Hannes Schüpbach creates silent colour films that evoke an experience similar to poetry. He composes and varies images of places, people, and gestures, deriving from a specific living context in each film. The subtlety and distance of his images invite the eye to ‘listen’ very carefully. The program shows the gradual development of the artist’s film language, based on the nature of the film image as both trace of reality and potential metaphor. Hannes Schüpbach has been working with film, parallel to his large painting suites, since the early 1990s. Authors: Vincent Katz, Ulrike Draesner |
ARTISTS' FILM AND VIDEO PUBLICATIONS FROM PICTURE THIS MOVING IMAGE, BRISTOL Picture This Moving Image is a Bristol-based agency for the support of moving image work, as well as publishing and running production facilities they commission new work and organise exhibitions. See www.picturethismovingimage.co.uk for more information. |
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TIM MACMILLAN Authors: Gray, Michael. Manchester, Clare. |
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REMOTE SENSING: OUTLOOK AND OBSERVATION Authors: Barber, George. Lanyon, Josephine. Miles, Sarah. Oechsler,
Monika. |
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MICHAEL MAZIERE: TRIPTYCH "Maziere studied film at the Royal College of Art in the early 1980s, taught by Peter Gidal, author of 'Materialist Film' and guru of a structuralist filmmaking. Yet, although modernist theory is a strong influence in the film's material, its constructions and language, (is) now tempered with other elements resulting in a much more expansive consideration."Gary Thomas. Authors: Thomas, Gary, Benci, Jacopo, Thew, Anna. Conomos, John. |
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JOHN WOOD AND PAUL HARRISON : TWENTY SIX DRAWING AND FALLING THINGS John Wood and Paul Harrison are video artists who have been working together since 1993. They record experiments, in which the human body is used as a tool to explore spatial boundaries. This boxed set comprises twenty six sketches produced in preparation for the works 'drawing and falling things'. Each work is accompanied by a text by artists such as Richard Wentworth and Smith/Stewart, and curators such as Matthew Higgs and Kay Pallister.Authors: Doherty, Claire. Wingate, Ealan. Higgs, Matthew et al. |
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JOHN SMITH : FILM AND VIDEO WORKS 1972-2002 A monograph on the film-maker John Smith. Smith's unique visual and literary vocabulary has developed through some forty films, videos and installations. Smith tests the limits of the art of film-making. Exerting pressure on each of its constituent parts: script, sound, image and editing. Texts include AL Rees' examination of Smith's work in relation to the London Film-makers Co-operative and Cate Elwes interview with John Smith.Authors: Parker, Cornelia. Rees AL. Bourn, Ian et al. |
