World Food Books

HEALTH
Edited by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz

2020, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 15.1 x 21.1 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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Part of the acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art.

The ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art.

In an era of fitness programs, increasing antidepressant usage, nutrition counseling and health-management apps, wellness is one of the defining issues of contemporary life, dictating every intimate aspect of our lives. Historically, art has been entwined with the values of medicine, beauty, and the productive body that have defined western scientific paradigms; contemporary artists are increasingly confronting and reshaping these ideologies, critically tackling illness and impairment in their practice while challenging ableist institutional dynamics. In this volume, artists, curators, writers, and thinkers engage with the ways the vulnerability of our bodies reveals structural aspects of our societies.

At a moment at which epidemics and global warming menace all forms of life, we see clearly how health intersects with sexuality, ethnicity, gender, class, and coloniality. By reclaiming other realities, beyond a state of health as a norm, this book questions the myths, stigmas, and cultural attitudes that shape normative perceptions, revealing the interdependence of our entangled existences. The book includes four newly commissioned texts: by artists Mahmoud Khaled and Patrick Staff, by curator Clare Barlow on disability in the museum, and by curator Portia Malatjie on the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape. It also features two texts on the current COVID-19 pandemic, by Anne Boyer and Filipa Ramos.

Artists surveyed include :
Oreet Ashery, Lucy Beech, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lorenza Böttner, Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli, Grupo Chaclacayo, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Patricia Domínguez, Dora García, Felix González-Torres, Luke Fowler, Alice Hattrick, Tamar Guimarães, Joseph Grigely, Gran Fury, Johanna Hedva, Mahmoud Khaled, Mujeres Creando, Carolyn Lazard, Simone Leigh, Park McArthur, Pedro Neves Marques, Tabita Rezaire, Jo Spence, Patrick Staff, Christine Sun Kim, Pedro Reyes, David Wojnarowicz

Writers include :
Aimar Arriola & Nanci Garín, Clare Barlow, Khairani Barokka, Dodie Bellamy, Anne Boyer, Rizvana Bradley, Eli Clare, Taraneh Fazeli, Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, R.D. Laing, Miguel A. López, Catalina Lozano, Audre Lorde, Portia Malatjie, Margarida Mendes, Peter Pál Pelbart, Naomi Pearce, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Filipa Ramos, Susan Sontag, Paul B. Preciado, Mary Walling Blackburn, Simon Watney & Sunil Gupta

Copublish by MIT Press with Whitechapel Gallery, London

File under: Oreet Ashery Lucy Beech Dineo Seshee Bopape Lorenza Böttner Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli Grupo Chaclacayo Anne Charlotte Robertson Patricia Domínguez Dora García Felix González-Torres Luke Fowler Alice Hattrick Tamar Guimarães Joseph Grigely Gran Fury Johanna Hedva Mahmoud Khaled Mujeres Creando Carolyn Lazard Simone Leigh Park McArthur Pedro Neves Marques Tabita Rezaire Jo Spence Patrick Staff Christine Sun Kim Pedro Reyes David Wojnarowicz Clare Barlow Khairani Barokka Dodie Bellamy Aimar Arriola & Nanci Garín Anne Boyer Rizvana Bradley Eli Clare Taraneh Fazeli Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick R.D. Laing Miguel A. López Peter Pál Pelbart Catalina Lozano Audre Lorde Portia Malatjie Margarida Mendes Simon Watney Sunil Gupta Naomi Pearce Filipa Ramos Susan Sontag Paul B. Preciado Mary Walling Blackburn María Puig de la Bellacasa The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

SCIENCE FICTION
Edited by Dan Byrne-Smith

2020, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 14.9 x 21 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

$38.00 - In stock -