Books
Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking
In this study of A Line Made by Walking, Dieter Roelstraete explores how the work combines the organic, the temporary, the non-material and the performative in order to offer a critique of the art system and its language, forms and values.
Online
Experimental Support/Structures for Moving Images
Nicole Wolf surveys the latest edition of Experimenta in Bangalore, the Indian festival of experimental cinema, with this year a special focus on film and video work from Asia.
Journal
Performing Histories: Why the Point Is Not to Make a Point…
Looking at Babette Mangolte's filming of key performance pieces of the 1970s, and at her own films and installation work, Barbara Clausen considers the relationship between performance and documentation forty years on.
Books
Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
In this book, Julian Jason Haladyn argues that Marcel Duchamp's intention in his final artwork, Étant donnés, was not to provide a neat summation of his career, but the opposite: to question and even undermine definitive readings of his own previous work.
Online
Notes on 3 Triptychs
Lamia Joreige considers the frontier between the conscious and the unconscious in the work of Jalal Toufic, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean Cocteau and David Lynch, setting these in relation to her recent video installation 3 Triptychs.
Journal
Adaptive Reuse: New Strategies in Response to the Housing Crisis
Claire Barliant considers how artists in the US are responding -- in exhibited artwork and community projects -- to the housing and financial crises.
