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Film and Video Umbrella’s publishing programme provides an important accompaniment to its ongoing commissioning activities. Publications include exhibition catalogues, larger-scale monographs on individual artists and a selection of books incorporating DVDs of artists’ work.

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Duncan Campbell

This survey of Duncan Campbell’s film works, featuring texts by Martin Herbert and Melissa Gronlund, considers his recent FVU co-commission ‘Make it new John’ alongside earlier projects by the artist.

Going Nowhere

Simon Faithfull

This publication highlights a number of Simon Faithfull’s journeys; all of which take us, in one way or other, to the edge of nothingness. Emphasising the pivotal place of film and video within Faithfull’s practice, ‘Going Nowhere’ is an indispensable point of entry into this artist’s distinctive and inventive work.

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Faster, Higher

This lavishly illustrated catalogue of susan pui san lok’s multi-screen installation digs deeper into the phenomenon of Olympic ambition and spectacle. Features specially commissioned essays by Chris Berry and Adrian Rifkin.

Seascape

Coinciding with its exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion, this publication offers an overview of this innovative project which used digital technology to bring a new element to a long-standing pictorial tradition reflecting man’s enduring relationship to the sea.

The Memorial Walks

A pocket-size ‘field guide’ to Simon Pope’s project ‘The Memorial Walks’, in which the artist invited well-known writers (including Iain Sinclair, Trezza Azzopardi, Hari Kunzru, and Tom McCarthy) to memorise a landscape painting and then recall it out in the open country.

Silicon Fen

A visual record of a series of artists’ commissions exploring the complex relationship between landscape and technology (with particular emphasis on the east of England), this book features texts by Iain Sinclair, Sean Cubitt and Tom Williamson.