Performing Arts
This recording features a multimedia composition by Yannis Kyriadikes for voice, recorders, violin, piano, face detection software, scanner, electronics, and video, created in collaboration with visual artist Johannes Schwartz and writer Maria Barnas, and was performed by Electra. The sleeves are designed by Experimental Jetset and include a 12-page booklet featuring the photographic work of Johannes Schwartz and a text by Maria Barnas. Duration: 48 min.
This volume presents a visual history of Dana Lixenberg’s iconic photographs of the legendary artists Tupac and Biggie, broadly considered by many critics and fans to have been the best rappers of their time. These photographs, commissioned by ‘Vibe’ magazine in 1993 and 1996, have been appropriated over the years by innumerable admirers around the world. Both shoots are shown here in their entirety for the first time, retracing the unforeseen trajectory and ubiquity of these images. The images are accompanied by an essay written by Robert Kenner and a poem by Kevin Powell, both renowned contributors to ‘Vibe’, while the book is designed by Mevis & van Deursen.
Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects from both the late 1960s (‘Trio A’, ‘The Mind Is a Muscle’) and since her return to dance with the White Oak Dance Project in 2000. Rainer is known for her challengingly experimental and sometimes minimalist work as a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, which spearheaded the rise of postmodern dance. An essay by Rainer frames things from the perspective of an ageing dancer who is aware of her physical limitations. With a conversation between Rainer and dancer Trisha Brown.
In 170 sequences, eight iconic films are presented in this first referential book about the work of Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing. These include ‘West of the Tracks’ (2003), ‘Three Sisters’ (2012), and ’15 Hours’ (2017). For him, making films stems from an urgent need to question his own time, his own country; to establish an alternative to the official media coverage that oscillates between propaganda and censorship. Bing also pushes the limits of documentary language by harnessing the democratising possibilities of digital filmmaking. His attention to people and to things is captured in lengthy films, enabling viewers to see things up close, as near as possible to reality and truth.
The practice of Alexandra Bachzetsis unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theatre, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. On the pages of her first comprehensive monograph, the Greek-Swiss performer, choreographer, and artist stages over two decades of work. The volume contains a wealth of images and includes new essays and contributions by Michel Auder, Julia Born, Hendrik Folkerts, Amelia Jones & Tawny Andersen, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Paul B. Preciado, Joke Robaard, Dorota Sajewska, Safiya Sinclair, Adam Szymczyk, and Arnisa Zeqo, among others.