The term "time-based art" is ostensibly a well-known construct by this point, encompassing video, audio and performance work but not textiles or other objects. Yet Renée Green, whose complex installation art has long troubled easy oppositions such as public/ private, center/margin, and history/ fiction, complicates the idea of time-based art as well, recycling the otherwise "static" elements in her vibrant multimedia environments from year to year, thus mobilizing a more expansive notion of the "time-based" to situate her practice in history. Conceived for Green's 2010 exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, this volume appraises the intellectual complexity of Green's ever-evolving art.

Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams

Arts & Photography

Betti-Sue Hertz

Lia Gangitano

Ros Gray

Lisa Le Feuvre

Individual Artists

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The videos and photographs of Song Dong (born 1966) reveal the social implications of China's booming modernity, and the artist's own attempts to reconcile that boom with its spiritual traditions and its effects on members of his family. Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well is based around a much heralded large-scale installation titled “Waste Not” (2005), comprised of over 10,000 items ranging from pots and basins to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and stuffed animals collected by the artist's mother over the course of more than five decades as a way of coping with the death of her husband. A core theme of “Waste Not” is the idea that people, everyday objects and personal stories provide tangible evidence of the impact of politics and history on family life. This volume surveys several works on this theme of material and bodily evidence.

Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well

Hung, Wu

ELLIOTT, David

Hertz, Betti-Sue

Ning, Ou

Xianting, Li

History & Criticism

As contemporary art in India becomes more widely recognized within the country, there has also been a growing awareness of its growth and impact internationally. The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India surveys sculpture, photography and video by Indian artists living inside the country as well as outside it. Inspired by material culture, literature, spirituality and social and political aspects of the history of the South Asian region, the volume is organized around three thematic threads that resonate from contemporary India: embodiment, the politics of communicative bodies and the imaginary. Participating artists are Ayisha Abraham, Rina Banerjee, CAMP, Nikhil Chopra, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Shilpa Gupta, Sunil Gupta, Siddhartha Kararwal, Dhruv Malhotra, The Otolith Group, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Sudarshan Shetty, Bharat Sikka, Anup Mathew Thomas and Thukral & Tagra.

The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India

Audience as Subject is the catalogue to a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism of participating viewers of live events. The two parts, “Part 1: Medium” and “Part 2: Extra Large” examine audiences at gatherings of corresponding sizes. Participating artists include Andreas Gursky, Ryan McGinley, Paul Pfeiffer and Melanie Smith.

Audience as Subject

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Dissident Futures presents art that investigates possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation, such as existing power, economic and technological structures. The artists and designers in Dissident Futures have the intellectual capacity and aesthetic innovation to envision a future that expands beyond our expectations. The concept is loosely structured intro three thematic strands--the utopian, the speculative and the pragmatic--with each strand providing a platform for furthering our understanding of how artists are addressing the unknown. Featured artists include Neil Beloufa, Heman Chong & Anthony Marcellini, Peter Coffin, Cohen Van Balen, Brody Condon, Future Cities Lab, Melanie Gilligan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shane Hope, David Huffman, Paul Laffoley, Basim Magdy, Dan Mills, The Otolith Group, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Kamau Amu Patton, Connie Samaras and Cauleen Smith.

Dissident Futures

Varnelis, Kazys

Pescovitz, David

The work of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) researches and performs the ways in which art can be applied to collective everyday life, focusing on the transformation of emotion into political action.
Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder surveys Bruguera’s artworks for the public sphere created between 1985 and 2017, all of which position art as a resource for social change. This collection of works offers the reader a deep understanding of the artist’s strategies for intervening in power. Richly illustrated and including rarely seen documentation of Bruguera’s actions, this volume features texts by José Luis Falconi, Grant Kester, Suzanne Lacy, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Peggy Phelan.

Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder (YERBA BUENA CEN)

Medina, Cuauhtémoc

Phelan, Peggy

Sanromán, Lucía

Kantor, Susie

Falconi, José

Kester, Grant

Lacy, Suzanne

Futurefarmers propose a collective, playful, inquiry-based approach to art-making that spans multiple disciplines and ways of inhabiting the world, from sailing and farming to environmental design and DIY scientific experimentation. Working in the tradition of social sculpture and participatory art, the coalition of artists, farmers, scientists and designers have called San Francisco and the Bay Area their hub since 1995.
Futurefarmers: Out of Place, in Place surveys their practice, with a focus on the creation of a new speculative fog-harvesting machine for today's Bay Area. This richly illustrated catalog includes essays by biologist Albert Colman, anthropologist Michael Taussig, curator and writer Elizabeth Thomas, novelist and critic Cooley Windsor and exhibition curator Lucia Sanroman.

Futurefarmers: Out of Place, in Place

Taussig, Michael

Thomas, Elizabeth

Windsor, Cooley

Colman, Albert

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