"This 456-page volume, published in conjunction with the Walker Art Center and MCA Chicago''s exhibition Merce Cunningham: Common Time (February 8–September 10, 2017), reconsiders the choreographer and his collaborators as an extraordinarily generative interdisciplinary network that preceded and predicted dramatic shifts in performance, including the development of site-specific dance, the use of technology as a choreographic tool, and the radical separation of sound and movement in dance. ... [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Contents include: "Chatter About Art is Almost Always Useless," Suzan Frecon and Marcella Durand in conversation; "Alluring Appearance, Complex Core," by Beatrix Ruf; "See Reverse for Care," by Fionn Meade; "Liberation in the Loop, Paul Chan: The 7 Lights" by Boris Groys; " Essentially Alien: Notes from Outside Paul Chan's Godot," by Carrie Lambert-Beatty; "Remember the Bourgeoisie?" by Paul Chan; " The Body Inscribed: Paul Chan's Sade Project," by Alan Gilbert; "The SIlent Power of Art," by Stéphanie Moisdon; "Recreated Reaction Recreate," by Paul McCarthy; Élan: The Joy of Sturtevant's Spinoza," by Roger Cook; "Praise and Otherwise," for Sturtevant from various sources; "Homesickness is Where the Heart Is," by Douglas Fogle; "It Defie Common Sense in Spectacular Style," by Daniel Baumann; "Nothing Everything at Once," by Negar Azimi; "Staging Knowledge, Staging an Opera of Knowledge," Herbert Lachmayer and Jacqueline Burckhardt; and "Reflection, Action, and Production in the Zentrum Paul Klee's Summer Academy," by Juri Steiner. ... [details]
