Product Description: This book engages the creative and critical strategies at play in works of recent Chilean art that emerge from a reflection on the politics of invisibility: how the operations of the seen and the unseen are understood to perform equally within the material realities of Chilean society...read more

This is a fascinating overview of the history of sound art. The rise of a prominent auditory culture, as seen in the recent plethora of art exhibitions on sound art, in conjunction with academic programs dedicated to "aural culture", sonic art, and auditory issues now emerging, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st century. And yet, sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. "Background Noise" sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework.

Product Description: Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined...read more

Product Description: “Writing comes up from under my skin,” writes Brandon LaBelle. “It creeps into my sleep, to tense my fingers; I am plunged into it, as a space for capturing a new voice, for figuring a new body: to take an empty page and to fill it, with the day to day...read more

Product Description: The latest Surface Tension gathers the fruits of the Manual project, a collaborative sound-art venture undertaken by six international artists. It includes a randomly chosen CDby one of the contributors.

Product Description: Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren (born 1950) is one of the most constantly innovative conceptual artists working in the combined fields of audio and video. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has numerous audio releases to his credit; this DVD-booklet supplies an important overview of his work...read more

Product Description: Continuing the work initiated in Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, this second in the Supplement series engages questions of location and performative interventionist practices through essays and creative projects. Probing the intersection of art and architecture, Surface Tension No...read more

Product Description: The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned many forms of radical culture over the years, from early Modernist notions of the "Wireless Imagination" and its subsequent vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecology's call for "Radical Radio...read more

Product Description: Following the success of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, Surface Tension: Supplement No. 1 presents contemporary site-based practices in art, architecture and performance through writing, documentation and projects. It offers readers a string of moments when artistic practice actively discovers, defines and recreates public space, and asks what role that kind of practice might play in defining contemporary culture and society...read more

Product Description: "Documenting a series of sound installations created since 1998 as part of the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Los Angeles. by sound artist, writer, and curator Brandon LaBelle, Site Specific Sound pries open architecture and the specifics of locality as a contingent form whose relationship to sounds extends well beyond acoustical phenomena...read more

Product Description: "From Gordon Matta-Clark to Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman to Alison Knowles, the question of site locates itself in issues of public space, at the intersection of the imagined and the real, at the juncture of performance and architectural production...read more

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