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Research and Publications
Research
Publications
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Slought Foundation publishes a variety of interdisciplinary DVD publications and books on topics such as art, architecture, and social theory. Our DVD publications are distributed internationally by Microcinema International (1-415-447-9750); book publications are distributed by Slought Foundation and its online store.
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On the Political Equator (forthcoming)
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This video archive features a conversation between three leading thinkers and experimenters in participatory politics - Sergio Fajardo, Oscar Romo, and Teddy Cruz - along the San Ysidro/Tijuana border.
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Theater of Transparency
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This video archive features three videos produced by Argentine artist Osvaldo Romberg that explore the history of transparency and its relation to painting and electronic media.
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Perpetual Peace
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This video brings various statesmen and philosophers together to explore 21st century international priorities and prospects for reducing geopolitical conflict, based on Immanuel Kant's essay Perpetual Peace (1795).
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John Cage | How to Get Started
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This audio publication features John Cage's 1989 performance, in which he experiments with thinking in public, before a live audience.
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Peter Weibel, Rewriter
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This video archive with accompanying essays traces internationally-renowned media and conceptual artist Peter Weibel's artistic developments from his beginnings through 1979.
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Another Tomorrow: Young Video Art from the Neue Galerie Graz
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The young-and very youngest-positions in Austrian video art from the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz has been brought together in this publication in an exemplary summation of the work now being done in the field.
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Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York
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A conversation with artist/architect Vito Acconci, exploring his engagement with the page, the streets of New York, galleries, and public environments. Includes For Your Ears Only, an audio CD.
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Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance
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A conversation between Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley addressing the politics of resistance, with a brochure featuring their recent philosophical writings about politics, heroism, and poetics.
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On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation
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A conversation with filmmaker Werner Herzog about aliens as a fixture of our imagination, the fundamental achievement of the human race, and the ecastasy of ski-flying.
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Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim
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Ffeatures a selection of film and video works by Dennis Oppenheim, in which the artist uses his own body as a site of experimentation on the personal. Contributions by Aaron Levy and Willoughby Sharp.
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John Cage: A Memoir / by William Anastasi (forthcoming)
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A memoir of the artist John Cage, written by his longtime friend and frequent collaborator William Anastasi.
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Evasions of Power: On the Architecture of Adjustment
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A critical resource for practitioners that explores contemporary perspectives on power and its evasions with regards to human rights, geopolitical conflict, and territorial sovereignty.
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Braco Dimitrijevic: Tractatus Post-Historicus (1976)
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A critical examination of Braco Dimitrijevic and his "Casual Passer-By" series (1971-). The vagaries of chance, the whims of history, and the fickleness of celebrity are suggested by these anonymous yet iconic portraits.
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Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America
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A critical examination of pioneering work by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch, with photo documentation of his ritualistic performances since 1962. Includes a DVD featuring Hermann Nitsch's Die Aktionen, 1962-2003.
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Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory, Vol. 1
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Dynamic conversations about violence, mourning, and revolution in contemporary art and life, with Eduardo Cadava, Thomas Y. Levin, Avital Ronell, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Anthony Vidler, others.
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Ex-Cities by Hélène Cixous
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Hélène Cixous explores the relation of art and literature to cities and their destruction, in collaboration with Maria Chevska's installation "Vera's Room." With an audio CD of the author reading and contributions.
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William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society
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Engages work by conceptual artist William Anastasi in relation to literary and artistic predecessors including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage. Artist Series. Essays by Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, others.
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The Revolt of the Bees
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Explores metaphors of the hive with an interdisciplinary approach involving art, curatorial studies, and literary criticism. DVD featuring Gary Indiana and essays by Anthony Grafton, Tom Keenan, Aaron Levy.
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Cities Without Citizens
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Engages issues of citizenship, human rights, and the architecture of cities, with the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Essays by Gayatri Spivak, Giorgio Agamben, Arakawa + Gins, Eduardo Cadava, others.
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C's Aesthetics: Philosophy in the Painting
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Joseph Masheck explores the development of modernism and aesthetics through the work of postimpressionist Paul Cézanne in the analytical tradition of twentieth-century philosophical thought.
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Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish
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Essays about diagram and poetic form in relation to work by artist and critic Marjorie Welish, with essays by Kenneth Baker, Norma Cole, Carla Harryman, Bob Perelman, Frances Richard, Thomas Zummer, others.
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