A new book edited by Marisa Jahn and jointly published by YYZ Books and REV-, Byproduct presents texts from a variety of artists, activists, curators, and interdisciplinary thinkers that interrogate projects by cultural practitioners “embedded” in industries, the government, and other non-art sectors. Working with the physical systems and symbolic languages of these institutions, these cultural agents develop projects—or “byproducts”—that produce meaning contingent on their hosts. Whether the works are explicitly polemical or instrumentalized by their hosts is up for debate…
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Contributors:
A Constructed World, Tejpal S. Ajji, Allan Antliff, Paul Ardenne, Grant Arnold, Artist Placement Group (Barbara Steveni), Au Travail / At Work, Gina Badger, Kadambari Baxi, Ingrid Baxter, IAIN BAXTER&, Claire Bishop, Adam Bobbette, Lawrence Bogad, Andrew Boyd, John Seely Brown, Ian Clarke, Maureen Connor, Natalie De Vito, Joseph del Pesco, Connor Dickie, Peter Eleey, Experiments in Art and Technology, Kent Hansen (democratic innovation), Kate Henderson, Luis Jacob, Michelle Jacques, Janez Jansa, Janes Jansa, Janes Jansa, Tomas Jonsson, Lev Kreft, Michelle Kuo, Lisa Larson-Walker, Adam Lauder, Kristin Lucas, Steve Mann, Antanas Mockus, Amish Morrell, Joshua Moufawad-Paul, Darren O’Donnell, Michael Page, Kathleen Pirrie-Adams, Reverend Billy (Billy Talen and Savitri D.), Pedro Reyes, John Searle, Michel Serres, Josephine Berry Slater, Matthew Soules, Felicity Tayler, The Yes Men, Vincent Trasov (Mr. Peanut), Camille Turner (Miss Canadiana), Etienne Turpin and DT Cochrane, Merve Ünsal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Stephen Wright
“Byproduct: On The Excess of Embedded Art Practices” (Roundtable)
Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 6:30-8 pm
Vera List Center for Art & Politics at The New School
Presentations by:
L.M. Bogad, performance artist and author of ‘Electoral Guerilla Theatre’
Joseph del Pesco, independent curator
Michelle Jacques, Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario
Marisa Jahn, artist, editor of ‘Byproduct’
Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art and author of ‘Dialogues in Public Art’
Followed by a book signing with A Constructed World, Maureen Connor, Kent Hansen (democratic innovation), Kristin Lucas, Darren O’Donnell (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Merve Unsal, and Lisa Larson Walker
Further Conversations on Embedded Art Practices
Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 2-5 pm
Postmaster’s Gallery
Presentations by the editor Marisa Jahn and contributors A Constructed World, Basekamp, Kadambari Baxi, L.M. Bogad, Maureen Connor, Kent Hansen (democratic innovation), Kristin Lucas, Darren O’Donnell, Felicity Tayler, Stephen Wright
Respondants: Basekamp and Stephen Duncombe
MORE INFO
Release Date: Winter 2010
ISBN: 978-0-920397-51-0
Design: Ryan Hines
Distribution/Purchasing: Distributed Art Publishers (www.artbook.com)
Publishers: REV- is a non-profit organization that furthers socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. www.rev-it.org YYZBOOKS is an alternative Canadian press dedicated to critical writing on art and culture. www.yyzbooks.com
Funding: This project is made possible with support from Canada Council, Artexte (Montreal), MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group, Luke Lozier (Bibliopolis), Postmaster’s Gallery, Vera List Center for Art & Politics at The New School, Galerie Annalix Forever.
Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 6:30-8 pm
Vera List Center for Art & Politics at The New School
Malcolm Klein Room
66 West 12th St, 5th floor, New York City, Free
Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 2-5 pm
Postmaster’s Gallery
459 West 19th St., New York City, Free
Images above:
Left to right: Ryan Hines (designer), “‘Byproduct’ book cover”, 2010; Camille Turner, “Miss Canadiana in Dakar, Senegal”, 2004, photo by Wayne Dunkley; Vincent Trasov, “Mr. Peanut at Vancouver City Hall”, 1974, photo by Taki Bluesinger; Antanas Mockus, “‘Super Citizen’ campaigning for civic culture in Bogotá”, circa 2008, image from Courrier International.