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Jananne Al-Ani
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ISBN 1 90427 014 X
PRICE £12.50
Jananne Al-Ani's haunting, delicately honed work in video and photography is distinguished by its evocative portraits and its intimate and compelling narratives.
This publication is the first monographic survey of Jananne Al-Ani's work highlighting video installations from 1996 onwards while referencing a selection of earlier photographic pieces. With the aid of two newly commissioned essays and an interview with the artist, the book traces themes and preoccupations that have persisted over that time and which continue to reverberate throughout this highly inventive and distinctive body of work.
Claire Doherty's text The Triumph of Echo explores tragedy in theatre, film and art, while Angela Weight examines the development of the artist's concerns from her earlier photographic work to her most recent video installations. Richard Hylton's interview grants a rare insight into the way Al-Ani's practice negotiates the problematic legacies of Orientalism.
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Cory Arcangel
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ISBN 978-1-904270-28-7
PRICE £12.00
An introduction to the work of New York artist, Cory Arcangel, highlighting his innovations with digital technology and his experiments with sound, this publication, produced in collaboration with leading design duo Dexter Sinister, features texts by writer and music critic Paul Morley, and curator Steven Bode, and an interview/Q&A between Arcangel and curator Michael Connor.
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George Barber
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ISBN 1 90427 018 2
PRICE £12.00
George Barber's witty and engaging video works have charmed and amused UK audiences for more than two decades. This publication looks back over Barber's always-inventive body of work from pioneering 'scratch' videos to more recent narrative/monologue pieces. Featuring newly commissioned texts by Gareth Evans and Paul Morley, it provides an illuminating introduction to an artist whose work combines idiosyncratic humour with highly polished visual flair.
'minigraphs' is a series of publications developed by Film and Video Umbrella devoted to contemporary artists working with film and video. Fully illustrated, and with specially commissioned essays and an extensive lists of works, this series provides an attractive and indispensable introduction to some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists.
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Suky Best
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ISBN ISBN 1 90427 020 4
PRICE £7.50
This distinctively designed small-format publication chronicles a new body of work by the British artist, Suky Best. In The Return of the Native, Best highlights the gradual disappearance of hitherto common types of wildlife from their former habitats across the UK. Over a series of vivid and disarming photographs and short video animations, Best digitally reintroduces a number of birds and insects into landscapes where they were previously seen in significant numbers but where they are now virtually extinct. The slightly studied and stylised nature of each composition, in which the respective elements don't quite fit together, elicits a vague but deceptively disquieting sense of loss.
Designed to resemble an old-fashioned Ladybird book of birds, this book acts as kind of field guide to Best's recent work, incorporating the images of marsh warblers, nightingales, soldier flies and swallowtail butterflies etc that make up The Return of the Native.
The book also features a special introductory essay by one of Britain's best-known writers on birds and birdwatching, Stephen Moss author of Garden Birds (Collins) and Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching (Arum Press). A further essay, by the artist and writer Nicky Coutts, considers the themes and motifs of these new works in the context of Best's fifteen-year practice as an artist.
The Return of the Native is released to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Pump House Gallery, London (26 October-19 December 2005).
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1, 32, 170, Louise Scullion
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ISBN 978-1-904270-27-0
PRICE £12.00
A record of a long-running visual arts project that took place at venues across the east of England between 2004 and 2007, Silicon Fen considers how landscape in general (and the East Anglian landscape in particular) has been both affected and reflected by technology. Immersing themselves in the distinctive history and topography of the region, whose remote, almost desolate vistas belie the complex nature of its substantially man-made environment, the participating artists (Suky Best, Susan Collins, Dalziel + Scullion, Annabel Howland, Stephen Hughes and TNWK) contribute works that capture the unique character of the Fenland landscape and whose facility with digital forms of image-making brings their subject into sharper focus.
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