Bøger udgivet af Independent Curators Inc.,U.S.

EN MAS' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic practice. A hybrid exhibition catalogue and academic reader with a lively carnivalesque feel, it presents nine newly commissioned artist projects by John Beadle, Charles Campbell, Christophe Chassol, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke, Ebony G. Patterson, Lorraine O'Grady and Cauleen Smith. The book also includes a timeline of diasporic pan-Caribbean carnivals, tracing the influence of Caribbean carnivals and festivals on the theater, dance, and Broadway stages in New York and London, in contemporary art galleries and biennials from São Paulo to Havana to Gwangju, at the Olympics as well as in protest and other movements.

Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished artists throughout its history, including Janine Antoni, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Petah Coyne, Leon Golub, David Levinthal, Mary Lucier, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Vik Muniz and Andrea Zittel. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of audio recordings made during these events, excerpting from approximately 75 of the most fascinating to provide an exceptional oral record of these artists' thinking about their working processes, conceptual issues, the current scene and artists whose work they themselves admire. Founded in 1975, ICI's mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through traveling exhibitions and other activities that reach a diverse national and international audience. Collaborating with a wide range of eminent curators over the years, ICI has created some 100 exhibitions that collectively have included the work of more than 2,500 artists, presented at over 450 art spaces located throughout the United States, and 20 other countries.

Independent Curators International (ICI)¿s Sourcebook series is dedicated to contemporary artists¿ personal perspectives on social, political, and cultural issues. Edited by an artist, each book in the series is a collection of primary research materials consisting of rare archival documents, artwork studies, and excerpts of landmark publications selected from their own archive annotated with personal commentary. The Sourcebook series follows the development of an artist's oeuvre through the very material that inspires and influences it. Each book is a catalyst to further understand contemporary artistic practice, particularly by artists whose practice challenges conventional art histories while contributing to its development. For the second Sourcebook in the series, ICI has invited Allen Ruppersberg to cull through his archives stored between Cleveland and Los Angeles. This publication will be the first to look at a range of Ruppersberg¿s work from 1978 -2012. Turning the microscope on to nine important works from Ruppersberg¿s career, the publication delves into the influences and research that led to each of the works, which illustrate the idea of reanimating 20th century popular culture through ephemeral and pre-digital materials. The arworks being explored include Ruppersberg¿s project for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations; his 1997 guide book for the Münster Sculpture Project; and his 2012 installation at the Art Institute of Chicago: No Time Left to Start Again/The B and D of R ¿n¿ R.