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Sean Cubitt and Shirley MacWilliam
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ISBN 190427 009 3
PRICE £12.95
Produced to coincide with a major new video and sound installation, Atlas, launching at Chisenhale Gallery in London in June 2004, this publication represents the first extensive overview of twenty years of Andrew Stones' video and mixed media work. Looking back over a prolific career that follows a line through the early days of UK video art to the artist's recent conceptual explorations of leading-edge science and technology, it showcases several new video and photographic pieces produced at restricted-access scientific institutions around the globe. Informed by three newly commissioned texts, and tracing a path through an impressive back-catalogue of visual and documentary material, this intelligently designed monographic publication draws out the depths and the subtleties of Stones' evocative and multifaceted practice.
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Bernadette Buckley, Doreen Massey and Steven Bode
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ISBN 1 90427 010 7
PRICE £10.00
An English Journey is a combined book and DVD project by the artist Andrew Cross. Published to coincide with his new video and photographic exhibition 3 hours from here it casts a typically adroit and observant eye over the changing face of the English landscape and road transport network. Following the route (from Southampton to the North West of England) followed by J.B. Priestley in his original 1930s English Journey, it closes in on that increasingly ubiquitous mainstay of the contemporary English road, the long-distance container lorry.
Featuring essays by the renowned social historian and geographer Doreen Massey, and by project curators Steven Bode and Bernadette Buckley, this beautifully designed small-format publication also incorporates extracts from Priestley's original text. The accompanying DVD includes a special interactive and extended version of Cross's video record of the journey, 3 hours from here.
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Tom McCarthy
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ISBN 1 841660 74 4
PRICE £12.00
This distinctive large-format publication acts as a visual record of a unique three-part exhibition by the acclaimed Glasgow-based artists Smith/Stewart. Their recent project 'A Black Thread', consisted of a trio of related installations, combining video and sound with stark and physically imposing sculptural elements. Capturing the taut, tense and enigmatic atmosphere of the works themselves, the book features a series of fractured images from each manifestation of the project, which began at Chisenhale Gallery in the winter of 2002 before travelling to Art Sheffield (April 2003) and Milton Keynes Gallery (January-March 2004).
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Essays by Patricia Allmer, Thomas Elsaesser and Tom McCarthy. Texts by Jorge L. Borges, Jeff Noon and Slavoj Zizek.
Interview by Chris Darke.
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ISBN 978-1-904270-25-6
PRICE £25.00
'Looking for Alfred' is a large-format 288-page book which documents the various elements, and stages, of Johan Grimonprez's project of the same name, which uses film, video and photography, as well as storyboards and other drawings by the artist, in an imaginative pursuit of the multi-faceted legacy of Alfred Hitchcock. The publication, lavishly illustrated throughout, features new essays by well-known writers and academics such as Tom McCarthy, Thomas Elsaesser and Patricia Allmer, and retraces the themes of the lookalike and the double that recur in Grimonprez's work, and are such a feature of Hitchcock's own oeuvre.
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Francis McKee and Michéle Thériault
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ISBN 1 84166 074 4
PRICE £12.00
Stephanie Smith and Edward Stewart explore the themes of identity, intimacy and interdependence in video works of extraordinary rigour and intensity. Whether distilled into a taut single-screen micro-drama, or developed across a more theatrical installation setting, Smith / Stewart's pieces pack a graphic, provocative power that imprints itself viscerally and continues to reverberate in the mind.
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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