Aesthetics Group Book order (chronological)

The book [Re]performing a List ? From A to Z and back again is an iteration of The Aesthetics Group's response to a series of progressively treated triptychs entitled atoz made by artist Jeanette Doyle for exhibition at the AC Institute in New York. The performance of the Aesthetics Group activates the work in multiple registers - live in the gallery and subsequently online for both the AC Institute curated by Holly Crawford, and the Bangkok Biennial curated by Anne Murray, who also wrote the foreword for this book. Through the performance of a script, the process and conditions of development, presentation and reception are subtly altered allowing new forms of interaction with the material to emerge. The work resonates through the dual lenses of critical theory and performance, allowing a critical and playful reflection on Doyle's work in the context of the contemporary artistic sublime.The work continues the group's research, which interrogates the aesthetics of language and politics in the digital age. By responding to Doyle's set of treated digital prints, which referenced each letter of the alphabet, this publication offers a further iteration of a playful critique of the contested nature of words and their constituents. It attempts to play between the relation of the immaterial and the de-materialized nature of words and image, their analogue and digital registers.