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An exploration of the artist's powerful evocations of statelessness, otherness and denial.

The catalog showcases Rose English's 40-year career as a pivotal performance artist, highlighting her roots in the 1970s British Conceptual art, dance, and feminist movements. It features her iconic site-specific performances and grand spectacles, emphasizing her interdisciplinary approach and lasting impact on the art world. The book serves as both a tribute and a critical examination of her contributions to performance art, making it a valuable resource for enthusiasts and scholars alike.

Rose Finn-Kelcey's work uniquely blends performance, sculpture, and installation, reflecting her pivotal role in the UK's Performance and Feminist art movements since the 1970s. Her art explores themes such as power dynamics, artistic identity, and the search for voice, often responding to significant historical events. Notable performances like "Glory" and "Bureau de Change" critique societal values and the nature of creativity. This comprehensive monograph features over 150 illustrations and essays by prominent art critics, offering an in-depth look at her four-decade career.

The most important works by the New York-based Venezuelan filmmaker, Javier Téllez, were presented for the first time in Europe in a solo show at the Kunstverein Braunschweig (18.4.-14.6.2009); the first monograph on the show is now available. Téllez's work operates in that classical interface between fiction and documentary formerly embraced by the auteur movies directed at Hollywood's pictorial hegemony, in order to challenge it their provocative film festivals. The retreat of the auteur movie into the sheltered sphere of the museum and gallery has - as is patently evident in the case of Javier Téllez - resulted in a massive concentration of the material's dimensionality. Perhaps the most successful variant is his film "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc", in which he juxtaposes the reworking of the same silent film from 1928 with statements made by 12 psychiatric patients in a dual projection, which illustrates how easy it is to compare obsession and heroism with depression and schizophrenia, or how the question regarding what is normal or abnormal can be pitched.

A distinctive voice in art criticism since the 1960s, Guy Brett has followed an independent path in mapping and interpreting contemporary art. 'Carnival of Perception' is a collection of his writings which traces the outlines of a collective reality, expressed in a play of wit and spirit.