One Day Sculpture
Edited by David Cross and Claire Doherty, One Day Sculpture explores new considerations of public sculpture, temporality, performance, and curating art in the public realm. Conceived as both a document and critical expansion of the year-long One Day Sculpture temporary public art series in New Zealand, the book combines an anthology of newly commissioned texts by authors such as Melanie Gilligan, Amelia Jones, Daniel Palmer, Jane Rendell, Terry Smith and Mick Wilson with in-depth considerations of each of the 20 projects, including work by artists Billy Apple, Lara Almarcegui, Bik Van der Pol, Kah Bee Chow, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maddie Leach, James Luna, Roman Ondák, Michael Parekowhai, Paola Pivi, Superflex, Javier Téllez, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Bedwyr Williams.

Price £20.00
Published by Kerber Verlag
ISBN 978-3-86678-333-1
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Situation (Documents of Contemporary Art)
Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific, the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in recent situation specific art. In North America and Europe, the site-specific is often viewed in terms of resistance to art's commoditization, while elsewhere situation-specific practices have defied institutions of authority. The contributors discuss these recent tendencies in the context of proliferating international biennial exhibitions, curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which artists increasingly unsettle the definition and legitimation of situation-based art.

Artists surveyed include: Vito Acconci, Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Group Material, Robert Irwin, Emily Jacir, Július Koller, Langlands & Bell, Ligna, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra’ad, Paul Rooney, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Vivan Sundaram, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, Krzysztof Wodiczko

Writers include: Arjun Appadurai, Marc Augé, Wim Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Michel de Certeau, Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T. J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières, Hal Foster, Hou Hanru, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu Jie, Doreen Massey, James Meyer,Brian O’Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit Rogoff, Peter Weibel

Price £14.95
Published by Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0854881735
Available from Whitechapel Gallery


Paul O’Neill & Mick Wilson, eds. Curating and the Educational Turn
This collection of new texts will unravel the notable turn to pedagogical models across a range of recent contemporary curatorial projects, art practices and artwriting as evidenced in a range of projects in recent years: ‘Pedagogy’ adopted as one of the three leitmotifs of documenta12 in 2007; the unrealized Manifesta 6 experimental art school as exhibitionary construct for Nicosia and the associated volume ‘Notes for an Artschool’; unitednationsplaza; ‘proto-academy’; Cork Caucus; Future Academy; para-education; Free Copenhagen University; A-C-A-D-E-M-Y; Mark Dion’s School; Tanya Bruguera’s Arte de Conducta in Havana; ArtSchool Palestine; School of Missing Studies, Belgrade; and many other examples. Instances of curatorial models and art practice conceived as critical cultural pedagogies (often construed as speculative – ‘open’ – emancipatory projects) are widely in evidence across the international scene. These developments are consistent with a turn to discursive models within curatorial practice, especially noticeable since the mid-nineteen-nineties. Curating, Art and the Turn to Education is an anthology which seeks to critically describe, locate, reflect upon, and think through this turn to pedagogical models and practices. Each contributor is invited to write a text on some aspect of the ‘pedagogical’ or ‘educational turn’ in recent curatorial and art practice and related critical cultural practices.

Contributors include: 16 Beaver Group, Peio Aguirre, Dave Beech, David Blamey & Alex Coles, Daniel Buren & Wouter Davidts, Cornford & Cross, Charles Esche, Annie Fletcher & Sarah Pierce, Liam Gillick, Janna Graham, Tom Holert, William Kaizen, Hassan Khan, Annette Krauss, Emily Pethick & Marina Vishmidt, Stewart Martin, Ute Meta Bauer, Marion von Osten & Eva Egermann, Andrea Phillips, Raqs Media Collective, Irit Rogoff, Edgar Schmitz, Simon Sheikh, Sally Tallant, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle, Tirdad Zolghadr

Price £16.63 (20 Euros)
Published by de Appel and Open Editions
ISBN 978-0-949004-18-5
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Curating Subjects
Curating Subjects, edited by Paul O’Neill and published by Open Editions, is an anthology of new curatorial writing that documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present, and speculative futures. Instead of following established conventions with existing publications and writing about themselves, the authors were invited to provide a text about the curatorial work of others within one of three categories: (1) Curating and under-represented historical projects/existing paradigms, (2) Under-considered current curatorial issues, and (3) Potential or desirable futures for contemporary curation. These three loosely aligned themes are intermingled in the final design and layout, resulting in a diversity of stylistic approaches to the subject. The overall result is a wide range of responses demonstrating a pluralist, dynamic, and emergent curatorial discourse, where critical essays, theoretical explorations, academic documents, proposals, historical overviews, polemics, exhibition critiques, interviews, and fictional accounts sit side by side. 

Edited by Paul O’Neill, contributors include Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen, Lars Bang Larsen, Julie Ault, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech, Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta, Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Anne Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffman, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Oberst, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson, and Mick Wilson. ISBN 978-0-949004 -16-1

Price £16.63 (20 Euros)
Published by de Appel and Open Editions
ISBN 978-90-73501-71-3
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Thinking of the Outside: New art and the city of Bristol

Six internationally acclaimed artists were commissioned to respond to Bristol's historic landscape. This book traces how their research took the artists beyond the limits of the city, to examine present-day boundaries, architecture and attitudes that deal with the relationship between outsider and insider. With commissioned essays in response to the new works in situ, interviews with the artists and documentation of work-in-progress, this book offers in-depth analysis and evaluation of a scattered-site exhibition in context. Artists: Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Kathleen Herbert, Susan Hiller, Silke Otto-Knapp, João Penalva.

Edited by Claire Doherty. Contributors include Jon Brett, Morgan Falconer, Alex Farquharson; Jörg Heiser, Josephine Lanyon, Francis McKee, Emily Pethick, Denise Robinson. Drawings by Joff Winterhart. Distributed by Cornerhouse. Published by Bristol Legible City and the University of the West of England in association with Arnolfini. ISBN 1 86043 3774

Price £20
Published by The University of the West of England and Bristol Legible City in association with Arnolfini
ISBN 1 86043 3774
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Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation

This book, edited by Claire Doherty and published by Black Dog Publishing, describes the shift in focus that has taken place in much contemporary art practice in the last decade. From the notion of relational aesthetics to the concerns of site-specificity, this book provides a new critical investigation into the production and curation of contemporary art. Including reprints of seminal texts alongside new essays, interviews and case studies by leading international artists, writers and curators, this anthology provides an overview of this increasingly significant (and contested) field of art practice. Contributors include: Kathrin Böhm, Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Buren, Nathan Coley, Adam Dant, Catherine David, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, Claire Doherty, Paul Domela, Jimmie Durham, FURTHER Up in the Air, Charlie Gere, Thomas Hirschhorn, Miwon Kwon, Maria Lind, James Lingwood, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Mejor Vida Corp., Aleksandra Mir, Oda Projesi, Irit Rogoff, Becky Shaw and Richard Wentworth. ISBN 1-904772-06-04

Price £50
Published by Black Dog
ISBN 1 904772 06 4
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