Encounters Beyond The Gallery

This book challenges the terms of ethnic arts exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception, as well as anthropological theory for ways to create connections between seemingly disparate worlds.

Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception, as well as anthropological theory for ways to create connections between seemingly disparate worlds. Embracing a unique and experimental format, the book imagines encounters between the art works and art worlds of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tamil women, the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru and a fictional female contemporary artist named Rikki T, in order to rethink normative aesthetic and cultural categories. Its method reflects the message of the book, and embraces a plurality of voices and perspectives to steer critical attention towards the complexity of artistic life beyond the gallery.

SILVER MEDALIST at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards Looking at Art Beyond the Gallery's White Cube with Latinx Eyes. BEYOND THE GALLERY is the second instalment of the Beyond series by Laberinto Press. This multilingual and multi-genre anthology showcases emerging and established talents within the Hispanic-Canadian community, featuring a broad range of writings on visual culture by writers, artists, and cultural workers. Resisting the sterility of contemporary art's white cube, BEYOND THE GALLERY embraces eclecticism by weaving together a labyrinth of visual experiences through intersecting and diverging pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and academic research. In doing this, we invite readers to consider Hispanic-Canadian literature as Canadian literature, beyond the confines of Magical Realism, the official English-French bilingual model, and to see yourself in these pages. Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Latinx Studies. Art.

To celebrate the millennium, the National Gallery, London, has commissioned twenty-five of the world’s leading contemporary artists to create an entirely new work in response to the Gallery’s collection of the greatest European painters of the past. These new works - paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, and video - are presented here alongside the paintings that inspired them. Substantial essays on each modern artist, based on in-depth interviews as their works took shape, offer a vivid and privileged understanding of the origin and meaning of the new work, describing how it was made and its relation to other works by the same artist, and the influence, direct or indirect, of the National Gallery’s collection.

An art historian develops a theological, philosophical, and historical framework within which to experience and interpret modern and contemporary art that is in dialogue with the Christian faith.

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art as an expanded and complex practice. Staging a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts - the virtual, the minor, the fold, etc. - and the work of artists that position their work outside of the gallery or 'outside' of representation - Simon O'Sullivan takes Deleuze's thought into other milieus, allowing these 'possible worlds' to work back on philosophy.