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John Wood and Paul Harrison
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ISBN 1 84166 026 4
PRICE £12.00
Since they began collaborating in 1993, John Wood and Paul Harrison have accumulated a series of playful and beguiling video works which are distinguished as much by their droll humour as their unerring economy of execution. Played out against a minimalist, monochrome backdrop, or within the sealed-off space of the monitor itself, each of the works involves the presence of one or other of the artists, either as the butt of an extended sight-gag or as the trigger for a spiralling, visually surprising conceit.
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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Julie Henry
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ISBN 1 90427 002 6
PRICE £6.95
This is the first monographic survey of Julie Henry's work, focussing in particular on five of video and photographic pieces produced between 1999 and 2002. Moving from provincial dancehalls to the terraces of football grounds, and from contemporary video-game whiz kids to aficionados of 1970s pub-sports, Henry's work documents and celebrates the subcultures and rituals of those who live to play hard far beneath the radar of celebrity endorsements and corporate sponsorship. This large-format, lavishly illustrated colour publication includes two essays as well as Henry's own observations on each of the pieces.
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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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Marine Hugonnier
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ISBN 1 90427 012 3
PRICE £15.00
A survey of recent film and photographic work by the emerging French artist Marine Hugonnier, this monographic publication also functions as a catalogue of Hugonnier's recent solo exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts (June-August 2004). Lavishly illustrated, the book highlights two companion film projects, Ariana (2003) and The Last Tour (2004), and also showcases a series of new photographic works by the artist. The publication features newly commissioned texts by the art critics Michael Newman and Jeremy Millar, plus an interview with Marine Hugonnier by Lynne Cooke.
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