Ten Huts (eBook)

Jill Sigman (Autor)

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2017
312 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7690-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Described as an artist of "prodigious imagination and intelligence" by the New York Times, Jill Sigman makes art at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. An artist's book that explores the ability of art to engage us and re-envision our environment, Ten Huts documents a series of site-specific huts that were hand built from found and repurposed materials ranging from the mundane (e-waste and plastic bottles) to the bizarre (circus detritus, dental molds, and mugwort grown on the banks of a toxic creek) in landscapes as varied as industrial Brooklyn and the Norwegian Arctic. Each of the extraordinary huts in this full-color book is a structure, a sculpture, and an emergency preparedness kit that raises questions about sustainability, shelter, real estate, and our future on this planet. Ten Huts features an artist essay by Jill Sigman and 499 illustrations, along with essays about The Hut Project by Thomas Hylland Eriksen (anthropology), André Lepecki (performance studies), Matthew McLendon (art history), Elise Springer (philosophy), and Eva Yaa Asantewaa (dance). Also includes a foreword by Pamela Tatge.

Autor

JILL SIGMAN and her company jill sigman/thinkdance are based in New York City. Sigman choreographs with bodies and materials.

Inhalt

Foreword by Pamela Tatge
Preface
Paradise Reclaimed
THE HUTS
Hut #1 (The Border, Brooklyn, New York)
Hut #2 (The Border, Brooklyn, New York)
Hut #3 ( Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center [EMPAC] at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York)
Hut #4 (The Border, Brooklyn, New York)
Hut #5 (The Border, Brooklyn, New York)
Hut #6 (The Norwegian Opera, Oslo, Norway)
Hut #7 (Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, New York)
Hut #8 (Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, Manhattan, New York)
Hut #9 (Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark)
Hut #10 (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida)
A Postscript (Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2015, Kjerringøy, Norway)
dwelling object hut thing byAndré Lepecki
The Century of Compost, Some thoughts about waste, huts and Pippi Longstocking by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Being Moved, Moving Ourselves by Elise Springer
Planting Dance at the Crossroads by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
The Queer Frontier of Jill Sigman's Hut Project by Matthew McLendon
Selected Bibliography
Author Biography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 473 color photos
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Art - Performance • Dance • Environment • huts • Installation Art • Performance • sculpture • Theater
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-7690-5 / 0819576905
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7690-3 / 9780819576903