Accompanying the St. Louis Museum of Art's installation art exhibition, Wonderland is as impressive in form as in content: it comes with a special insert containing photographs of the on-site installations, reproduced in full-color posters. This innovative design is a perfect complement to the sense of active creation, of imagination, and of joy that characterizes the works of art here. The ten artists represented are Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernandez, Stephen Hendee, Bill Klaila, Joep van Lieshout, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Gregor Schneider and Jennifer Steinkamp. Each makes art whose constructed or alternate realities inspire and engage our physical involvement, creating experiences for the body as well as the intellect. In addition to the works themselves, Wonderland features interviews with the artists and critical essays by authors including Terence Riley (Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Beatriz Colomina (Professor of Architecture at Princeton University) and Giuliana Bruno (Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University).

Wonderland

Arts & Photography

Cardiff, Janet

Rist, Pipilotti

Benjamin, Brent

van Lieshout, Joep

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Saint Louis Art Museum

Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, with George Bures Miller

Shifting between fact and fiction, between the experience of the real and our projections, fantasies, and desires, Janet Cardiff's audio-video and multimedia installations explore the complexity and vertiginous nature of subjectivity in a highly technological world. They are interactive pieces where visitors are asked to touch, listen, smell, and often move through an environment shaped both by our perceptions and by the artist's alteration of them. With references to film noir, science fiction, cyber-punk and various other filmic genres, her works, often created in collaboration with husband George Bures Miller, address the constant need to negotiate between presence and loss of self, memory and experience, sensation and imagination.

Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn

Lowry, Glenn

Brisebois, Marcel

Miller, George Bures

Beecroft, Vanessa

Individual Artists

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Foreword by Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry and Marcel Brisebois.

Janet Cardiff: Eyes of Laura

Grenville, Bruce

Ferguson, Deanna

Wakkary, Ronald

Vancouver Art Gallery

This book documents Janet Cardiff's 1999 audio project, The Missing voice (Case Study B), and includes the full audio CD as well as images from this exploration of London's inner city. Part urban guide, part fiction, part film noir, her audio walk entwines the listener in a narrative that shifts through time and space. Intimate, even conspirational, Cardiff has created a psychologically absorbing experience for an audience of one at a time. You find yourself transported back in time. What was that sound? Who is speaking to you? Where does reality end, and what's imagined begin? Also included is an extended essay analyzing the artist's career to date. Born in 1957, in Brussels, Canada, Cardiff works and lives in Alberta and has shown internationally in, among others, London, New York, Berlin, and Vienna. Her work has been included in significant group exhibitions, notably Skulptur Projekte Munster, 1997; Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 1999 Carnegie International; and the Museum as Muse at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Janet Cardiff: The Missing Voice: (Case Stu

Scott, Kitty

Artangel

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Murder of Crows" is a surrealistic sound installation inspired in part by Goya's famous etching "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters." This hallucinatory work depicts a man asleep with owls and bats swooping menacingly around his head; Cardiff and Miller's title also refers to the habit among crows of flocking to a dead crow and cawing collectively, often for over a day, in a "crow funeral." The installation is composed of 98 speakers that visually mimic the flocking crows and issue both ambient and musical sounds, and a desk (mimicing Goya) with a megaphone from which Cardiff's voice relays a series of dreams. This artist's book account of the project--as well as selected earlier projects--includes documents, interviews with the artists, ornithological and literary texts referring to crows, plus a DVD and 3-D reproductions with glasses.

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows

Crowston, Catherine

Reference

Hatje Cantz

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