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Based around an out-of-print anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by archaeological expeditions in Algeria, French artist Camille Henrot's latest project treats this ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. The scientific document photographs, diagrams, and captions becomes part of a layered array incorporating traces of our present(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
December 2015
Camille Henrot: prehistoric collections
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Based around an out-of-print anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by archaeological expeditions in Algeria, French artist Camille Henrot's latest project treats this ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. The scientific document photographs, diagrams, and captions becomes part of a layered array incorporating traces of our present age: humans, animals, plants, minerals, and other objects. Freely mixing the pre- and post-historic, archaic and actual, Henrot constructs an exploration of human bodies, information media, and meaning using dated pornography, technological refuse, tools and instruments, signs, and more.
Contemporary Art Monographs
La communauté terrestre
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Traiter de la Terre, c'est avoir à l'esprit une chaîne symbiotique : celle du vivant, dans ses innombrables déploiements. Les humains, les espèces animales et végétales, les microbes, bactéries et virus, les corps inorganiques et les substances minérales ainsi que les dispositifs technologiques et autres appareillages artificiels font inséparablement partie de cette(...)
La communauté terrestre
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Traiter de la Terre, c'est avoir à l'esprit une chaîne symbiotique : celle du vivant, dans ses innombrables déploiements. Les humains, les espèces animales et végétales, les microbes, bactéries et virus, les corps inorganiques et les substances minérales ainsi que les dispositifs technologiques et autres appareillages artificiels font inséparablement partie de cette chaîne du vivant. Mais c'est aussi le cas, du moins dans les pensées animistes africaines, de toutes les forces invisibles, des génies, des esprits et des masques. Prenant fermement appui sur l'insondable richesse de ces pensées, Achille Mbembe propose dans cet essai une réflexion stimulante sur la Terre, ses devenirs, et surtout la sorte de communauté qu'elle forme avec la cohorte des espèces animées et inanimées qui l'habitent, y ont trouvé refuge ou y séjournent. Il montre comment notre relation fondamentale à la Terre ne peut être que celle de l'habitant et du passant. C'est en tant qu'habitant et passant qu'elle nous accueille et nous abrite, qu'elle entretient les traces de notre passage, celles qui parlent en notre nom et en mémoire de qui nous aurons été, avec d'autres et au milieu d'eux. C'est à ce titre qu'elle est la toute dernière des utopies, la pierre angulaire d'une nouvelle conscience planétaire.
Environment and environmental theory
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Journeys explores architectural issues raised by increased global mobility. Stories by different authors, presented in a fictional framework, highlight key concepts critical to understanding the impact of the movement of people, animals, objects and ideas. The vagabondage of seeds. The transfer of knowledge and experience as people move from one place to another. The(...)
Journeys: how travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment
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Journeys explores architectural issues raised by increased global mobility. Stories by different authors, presented in a fictional framework, highlight key concepts critical to understanding the impact of the movement of people, animals, objects and ideas. The vagabondage of seeds. The transfer of knowledge and experience as people move from one place to another. The physical reconfiguration of communities. These are among the wide range of topics Journeys explores as it seeks to analyze and visually depict how these flows, encounters and migrations unexpectedly change society and our built environment.
CCA Publications
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Une autre façon de regarder, de comprendre, de vivre et d’aménager nos villes, à partir de l’étude des relations ville-nature dans un territoire emblématique. Les recherches récentes en écologie urbaine ont ouvert un nouveau territoire : la ville. La vile n’est plus conçu comme le lieu d’habitat des seuls humains, mais également comme un lieu traversé et constitué par la(...)
Petit atlas d'une ville-nature
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Une autre façon de regarder, de comprendre, de vivre et d’aménager nos villes, à partir de l’étude des relations ville-nature dans un territoire emblématique. Les recherches récentes en écologie urbaine ont ouvert un nouveau territoire : la ville. La vile n’est plus conçu comme le lieu d’habitat des seuls humains, mais également comme un lieu traversé et constitué par la nature et la biodiversité. Marseille est en France et en Europe un lieu idéal pour étudier cette nouvelle donne dans les relations entre monde urbain et monde naturel. Avec sa géographie exceptionnelle – littoral, collines, Calanques –, Marseille recèle également une nature moins connue, à l’intérieur même du tissu urbain : parcs et jardins publics, jardins privés, quantité de friches, d’interstices, de plantes, d’animaux. La question de la nature en ville est devenue un élément central des questions d’aménagement, de protection de la nature, et de projets culturels. À partir de Marseille, cet ouvrage voudrait proposer de nouveaux modèles d’urbanisme, entre écologie et culture. Avec des cartes, des dessins, des photos, et 5 promenades familiales pour découvrir Marseille en dehors des sentiers battus.
Urban Theory
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Marcel Dzama is a prolific artist who works in multiple disciplines, including sculpture, watercolour, ink, collage, and film. His art depicts anachronistic, fanciful, and subversive worlds that contain human figures, animals, and mythical hybrid creatures. Using a visual language strongly influenced by fables and masquerades, his complex narratives transport the viewer(...)
Marcel Dzama: drawing on a revolution
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Marcel Dzama is a prolific artist who works in multiple disciplines, including sculpture, watercolour, ink, collage, and film. His art depicts anachronistic, fanciful, and subversive worlds that contain human figures, animals, and mythical hybrid creatures. Using a visual language strongly influenced by fables and masquerades, his complex narratives transport the viewer into an enigmatic world of life and death, calm and violence, where irony, ridicule, and sexual themes disguise allusions to contemporary social and political issues. This catalogue of drawings, dioramas, and other works is published on the occasion of an exhibition of Dzamas work at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.
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In a world where people are people, animals are people, hamburgers and hot dogs are people, an irresistible spirit-slumber has seeped through the collective consciousness, nearly snuffing out the soul of the living, breathing world. Nearly inaudibly, heart song echoes through this fog of confusion; time has folded in on itself, allowing not only God but Jupiter, Neptune,(...)
All the things I love: Zebadiah Kenneally
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In a world where people are people, animals are people, hamburgers and hot dogs are people, an irresistible spirit-slumber has seeped through the collective consciousness, nearly snuffing out the soul of the living, breathing world. Nearly inaudibly, heart song echoes through this fog of confusion; time has folded in on itself, allowing not only God but Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, and Hera to enter the waking realism, where they vie for power and sway over the fate of the planet. This is the story that New York-based artist Zebadiah Keneally has set himself the task of reciting in his first ever (but none the less epic) graphic novel.
Illustration
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Forests and woods have always been central to the development of human technology and culture and our expansion as a species. Trees, Woods and Forests shows how for thousands of years, woodland has been managed by humans using ancient practices such as coppicing and pollarding trees for fuel and as fodder for animals. This book draws on the most recent work of historians,(...)
Trees, woods and forests : a social and cultural history
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Forests and woods have always been central to the development of human technology and culture and our expansion as a species. Trees, Woods and Forests shows how for thousands of years, woodland has been managed by humans using ancient practices such as coppicing and pollarding trees for fuel and as fodder for animals. This book draws on the most recent work of historians, archaeologists, geographers, botanists and foresters, and explores forests in Britain, the U.S., Greece, Italy and France. It is a comprehensive and fascinating overview of humankind’s interaction with these most valuable resources.
Landscape Theory
Hiroshi Sugimoto: dioramas
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas narrates a story of the cycle of life, death and rebirth, from prehistoric aquatic life to the propagation of reptile and animal life to Homo sapiens' destruction of the earth, circling back to its renewal, where flora and fauna flourish without man. Here Sugimoto writes his own history of the world, an artist's creation myth. Hiroshi Sugimoto(...)
Hiroshi Sugimoto: dioramas
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas narrates a story of the cycle of life, death and rebirth, from prehistoric aquatic life to the propagation of reptile and animal life to Homo sapiens' destruction of the earth, circling back to its renewal, where flora and fauna flourish without man. Here Sugimoto writes his own history of the world, an artist's creation myth. Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied politics and sociology at Rikkyõ University, later retraining as an artist at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, CA. He currently lives in New York and Tokyo.
Photography monographs
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The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals; and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in(...)
Yew
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The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals; and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in Yew, Fred Hageneder surveys its position in religious and cultural history, its role in the creation of the British Empire, and its place in modern medicine.
Landscape Theory
Stable vices
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The themes of protection, freedom and oppression appear consistently throughout Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska’s oeuvre. Through three photographic series, Stable Vices focuses on these notions to crystallise a spectrum of concerns that drive her work. One series is inspired by illustrated self-defence manuals and Psychology and Resistance by the feminist psychologist(...)
Stable vices
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The themes of protection, freedom and oppression appear consistently throughout Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska’s oeuvre. Through three photographic series, Stable Vices focuses on these notions to crystallise a spectrum of concerns that drive her work. One series is inspired by illustrated self-defence manuals and Psychology and Resistance by the feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan. A second series reveals precarious shelters made out of furniture and blankets, situated in domestic spaces. In a third series, Piotrowska focuses on cages and comparable spaces created for humans, drawing parallels between the lives of certain communities and animals, and the environments in which they live.
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