This first North American monograph on Mexican artist Damian Ortega documents 10 years of work focused on conceptual practice, social organization, and humor, including the installations and performances that make up his acclaimed Beetle Trilogy, several works never before exhibited and a great deal of unpublished material. Most of what's here hasn't been seen before. The first episode of the trilogy, "The Cosmic Thing," a disassembled Volkswagen suspended in the air, was featured in Gabriel Orozco's Il Quotidiano Alterato at the 2003 Venice Biennale, and was one of the most widely reproduced images of that year's exhibition. "Moby Dick," a heroic action involving the artist's Beetle, a live band, ropes and pulleys, followed, and then "Beetle '83 Escarabajo," a ritual return to the vehicle's place of birth, closed the cycle. The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works includes a new comic, 150 color images and an original essay by Hari Kunzru, author of The Impressionist and one of Granata's 20 "Best Young British Novelists" in 2003.

Damian Ortega: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works (English and Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Hari Kunzru

Alma Ruiz

Eungie Joo

Individual Artists

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre

Nothing Is Neutral: Andrea Bowers

Bowers, Andrea

Connie Butler

Mary Leclere

Institute

Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 - June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist. Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art movement.

Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye

Susan Sollins

Alex Baker

California Institute of the Arts/REDCAT

The curatorial includes the post production artistic practices that bring together within a particular time and space related framework disparate images, objects, as well as other material and immaterial phenomena. In its performative aspects that seek to challenge the status quo, the curatorial also includes elements of choreography, orchestration and administrative logistics. Edited by prominent director and writer Maria Lind, this volume brings together a diverse group of curators, artists, art historians, educators and thinkers, all of whom reflect on the curatorial motives, tendencies and tactics, pitfalls and exegeses in translating and thus performing cultural heritage. Contributors include Doug Ashford, Beatrice von Bismarck and Eungie Joo.

Performing the Curatorial: With and Beyond Art

Helmut Draxler

Beatrice von Bismarck

Clémentine Deliss

Doug Ashford

Boris Buden

Marion von Osten

Sternberg Press

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