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Tony Oursler Vox Vernacular .
BE, mercaterfonds - fondsmercator, 2013 Hardback, 290x225mm, 256p, 200 colour illustrations, English edition. ISBN 9789462300323.
Even more than literature, it is the vernacular that has inspired the American artist Tony Oursler. Since the late 1970s, Oursler has forcefully turned the medium of video back on the dominant culture at large, through the use of technologies such as television and film. Oursler's response to mass media's conformist narratives and paranoid discourse - beginning with his first grotesque videos up until his more recent phantasmagorical installations - is to oppose their unhinged scenarios and psychotic ramblings. Even when using media that is primarily visual, Tony Oursler has always taken particular care with the words he places in the mouth or mind of his characters. His poetic writing - which also takes on psychoanalysis and religion - has set this American artist apart as one of the most interesting and powerful writers of his generation. This volume is the first work exclusively dedicated to Tony Oursler's poetic texts. It brings together fifty full transcriptions of video works created between 1977 and 2013, presented in their creative context and accompanied by an extensively illustrated scholarly analysis. Composed by the artist himself as a bouquet in which language explodes into a spectrum of colours and registers. Vox Vernacular provides us with an authentic anthology of his work. Laurent Busine is director of MAC's, working in collaboration with Denis Gielen. Meer nog dan de literatuur, zijn het de volkstalen die de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Tony Oursler inspireerden sinds hij eind jaren 1970 de videokunst begon te verkennen. Zo wou hij de overheersende cultuur met haar eigen wapens bestrijden, vooral televisie en film. Tegenover de conformistische verhalen en het paranoide discours van de massamedia plaatsen zowel zijn eerste groteske video's als zijn recente fantasmagorische installaties hun waanzinnige verhalen en hun psychotische stemmen. Hoewel zijn werken in de eerste plaats gezien moeten worden, besteedt Tony Oursler ook bijzonder veel aandacht aan de woorden die hij in de mond of het brein van zijn personages legt. Deze schriftuur, die naar poezie neigt, maar ook naar de psychoanalyse of de godsdienst, maakt van deze Amerikaanse kunstenaar een van de boeiendste en spraakmakendste tekstschrijvers van zijn generatie.
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Tony Oursler Vox Vernacular .
BE, mercaterfonds - fondsmercator, 2013 Hardback, 290x225mm, 256p, 200 colour illustrations, French edition. ISBN 9789462300309.
Plus que la litterature au sens artistique du terme, ce sont les langages populaires qui inspirent l'artiste americain Tony Oursler depuis qu'il s'empara de la video, a la fin des annees 70, pour retourner contre la culture dominante ses propres armes, a commencer par les technologies de la television et du cinema. Aux histoires conformistes et aux discours paranoiaques des mass media, soumis a la politique bourgeoise voire a la morale puritaine, ses premieres videos grotesques realisees a l'epoque du groupe punk-rock qu'il fonde avec Mike Kelley, tout comme ses recentes installations fantasmagoriques, opposent leurs recits delirants et leurs voix psychotiques tel la parole liberee et automatique d'un desir refoule. Bien que ses dispositifs sollicitent en priorite la vue, allant meme jusqu'a utiliser la retine comme ecran de projection, Tony Oursler a toujours accorde un soin particulier aux mots qu'il place dans les bouches ou dans les cerveaux de ses personnages, souvent reduits d'ailleurs a des 'tetes parlantes' semblables a celles imaginee par Samuel Beckett pour sa piece Comedie. Ce travail d'ecriture qui touche a la poesie pour sa valeur musicale, mais encore a la psychanalyse ou a la religion en ce qu'il met au jour des mecanismes de litanies ou de glossolalies, a fait de cet artiste americain l'un des producteurs de textes les plus interessants et les plus percutants de sa generation. Ce livre qui regroupe une cinquantaine de transcriptions integrales d'oeuvres videos realisees entre 1977 et 2013, replacees dans leurs contextes de creation et accompagnees d'une presentation critique abondamment illustree, est la premiere publication exclusivement consacree aux textes poetiques de Tony Oursler. Parce que l'artiste l'a compose lui-meme comme un bouquet ou le langage explose en une multitude de couleurs et de sonorites de mots, Vox Vernacular est une veritable anthologie. Meer nog dan de literatuur, zijn het de volkstalen die de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Tony Oursler inspireerden sinds hij eind jaren 1970 de videokunst begon te verkennen. Zo wou hij de overheersende cultuur met haar eigen wapens bestrijden, vooral televisie en film. Tegenover de conformistische verhalen en het paranoide discours van de massamedia plaatsen zowel zijn eerste groteske video's als zijn recente fantasmagorische installaties hun waanzinnige verhalen en hun psychotische stemmen. Hoewel zijn werken in de eerste plaats gezien moeten worden, besteedt Tony Oursler ook bijzonder veel aandacht aan de woorden die hij in de mond of het brein van zijn personages legt. Deze schriftuur, die naar poezie neigt, maar ook naar de psychoanalyse of de godsdienst, maakt van deze Amerikaanse kunstenaar een van de boeiendste en spraakmakendste tekstschrijvers van zijn generatie.
ATLAS OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOR USE BY EVERYONE.
Grand-Hornu, Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2007 Hardcover, 400 pages, ENG, 350 x 220 x 40 mm,in Fine condition, illustrated in colour / b/w ISBN 9782930368214.
Using the format of a geographical atlas, the aim of this educational tool is to develop the interest of the public for contemporary art and to initiate dialogue between this art and other disciplines such as sciences, sociology, politics, etc. The book combines series of colour plates giving numerous historical, thematic and iconographic viewpoints with instructive texts - a mosaic of texts that take their inspiration from numerous quotes by artists, scientist and intellectuals, as well as encyclopaedia definitions, art reviews and short biographies. This English bilingual atlas, an initiative of the publishing section of the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Grand-Hornu (MAC's), compiled by Denis Gielen and with a preface by Laurent Busine, will be available in bookshops in spring 2007. One of the goals of any author of an atlas is probably - on occasions - to survey the world in order to better explore it, whether he or she is a geographer, historian, hiker, philosopher, amateur or art collector. Seeing, naming and discerning the ways of the world is just as imperative as seeking to define their meanings: some are diverse and unpredictable, others are manifold and disordered. This appears to be particularly true of contemporary art, in the sense that it confronts us with statements about a world to which we belong in the same way as the artist, in other words in a non-finite time. This book presents an alternation of illustrations, texts and synopses whose images and imaginative concepts all refer to one other. It is open to a multiplicity of inter-pretations, inviting confrontations and the discovery of similarities, relationships and analogies between works of art and various subjects of thought. To take stock of the field of contemporary art is to understand the movements and currents of which it is formed, but it also involves exploring the paths that interweave among them. Denis Gielen compiles facts, stories, art works and intentions, abiding by laws which, although they may not be universal, are nevertheless able to serve as our guide as we - author and reader - roam together along the meandering paths of creation, following the trails which unite the works and visions of our contemporaries. Thought and emotion carve out a sinuous and curious path here, even though this book is in principle open to the pursuit of all kinds of journeys. The Atlas of Contemporary Art can therefore be used by everyone, for it rejects no one. New book.
