Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling
About the Exhibition
Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling, curated by Paige Landesberg, highlights artists who are collecting and publishing calculated excerpts of primary research, existing data, and archival documents as a practice. Through the act of interrogating (and sometimes altering) fragments of living archives–such as old family photographs, real estate listings, and public records of funding–these artists activate complex narratives of the political, the poetic, and the personal. The method of dissemination employed in each work relates back to the original formats where the contents once circulated; establishing an unconventional criteria for publishing that is rooted in context, time and place.
Order your copy of Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling
Edited by Paige Landesberg
Softcover, tab bound, b&w and color
8.5 x 11 inches, 130 pages
$35
The book Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling, edited by Paige Landesberg and designed by Brian Paul Lamott, accompanies the exhibition of the same name and includes contributions by Aarati Akkapeddi, Yusuf Hassan (BlackMass Publishing), Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain, Sarah Cook, Andrea Fraser, Paige Landesberg, Huong Ngo, and Adam Pendleton, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Corina Reynolds, Paul Soulellis. This book introduces the reader to key ideas surrounding the document within contemporary art.
We are deeply grateful to the individuals who have contributed to this exhibition financially, intellectually, and physically: Allison Carter-Beaulé, Alexandra Crane, Slavko Djuric, Tilde Mariani Giacche’, Samuel Herzig, Thomas Herzig, Nicole Kaack, Brian Paul Lamotte, Stuart Landesberg, Henry Roy Landesberg, Lydia Landesberg, and the Philene Foundation.
