Dana Claxton, Steven Loft, Melanie Townsend: Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual and Digital Culture
Transference, Tradition, Technology explores Indigenous new media and references the work of artists within a political, cultural and aesthetic milieu. The book constructs a Native art history relating to these disciplines, one that is grounded in the philosophical and cosmological foundations of Indigenous concepts of community and identity within the rigour of contemporary arts discourse. Approachable in nature but scholarly in content, this book is the first of its kind. A text book for students and teachers of Indigenous history and visual and media art, and a source for writers, scholars and historians, Transference, Tradition, Technology is co-produced with the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton; and Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver.
For more information: https://artmetropole.com/shop/14334
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here is what I Mean
A 15-page catalogue published by the Museum London, London, ON, featuring Gu Xiong and Xu Bing’s collaborative exhibition.
Gu Xiong and Xu Bing are compatriots from the People’s Republic of China who shared experiences through the Cultural Revolution and the development of the Chinese Avant-Garde movement in the 1980s. Each subsequently emigrated to North America: Gu Xiong to Canada (where he now lives in Vancouver) and Xu Bing to New York.
The exhibition includes part of Xu Bing’s acclaimed Book from the Sky – in which the artist has created hundreds of artificial Chinese characters and printed them in books and on scrolls – as well as calligraphy scrolls, a classroom installation and an interactive computer font project. Gu Xiong contributes an installation of sixteen square drawings on canvas, which report on everyday objects and events encountered in his immigrant experience, and several large-scale paintings where text-like images describe the artist’s view of the detritus of Western consumer culture.
For more information: https://dorismccarthygallery.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/here-is-what-i-mean
Gareth James & Florian Zeyfang: I said I love. That’s the promise the T-Video politics of Jean-Luc Godard
I said I love. That is the promise. The TVideo politics of Jean-Luc Godard< focuses on the filmmaker’s often neglected work with television and video and his collaboration with Anne-Marie Miéville in the 1970s. The starting point is the thesis that Godard’s encounter with television reformulated the aesthetic, political and gender-specific understanding of image and sound. What is called ‘TVideopolitik’ here derives its political power from the fact that it takes images from an economy of reproduction and recognizes their function in an economy of production and distribution. The papers analyze film, television and art as practices of representation and claim that Godard’s turn to television involves “provocation: what it is to see and to think”.
With texts by: Kaja Silverman, Elisabeth Büttner, Dave Beech, Manthia Diawara, Simon Sheikh, Jason Simon, Stephan Geene and Michael Eng as well as pictures from an exhibition.
For more information: https://www.bbooks.de/verlag/i-said-i-love-thats-the-promise
Charlotte Townsend-Gault and James Luna: Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed
Exhibition catalogue from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (4 October–1 December 2002).
Texts by Scott Watson, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and James Luna.
For more information: https://belkin.ubc.ca/publications/rebecca-belmore-the-named-and-the-unnamed/