Rachel Churner – författare

On the rich history of video art and its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices.The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims. This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches, and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives.

Incisive essays, new writing, and visuals to chart Arnold J. Kemp's impact on conceptualism, Black abstraction, authorship, and the politics of making.Arnold J. Kemp: A Reader gathers critical essays, new writing, and visual material that illuminates and contextualizes Kemp’s work in relation to contemporary art and culture. This extensive survey includes essays from leading writers and thinkers—Sampada Aranke, Gregg Bordowitz, Huey Copeland, Eungie Joo, Kevin Killian, Laurel V. McLaughlin, Ed Roberson, Tausif Noor, Stephanie Snyder, and Lynne Tillman—that examine Kemp's role in shaping essential dialogues on conceptualism, Black abstraction, authorship, and the politics of art-making today. Also included are plays and poems by the artist and a substantial interview with celebrated curator Eungie Joo.ContributorsSampada Aranke, Gregg Bordowitz, Huey Copeland, Eungie Joo, Kevin Killian, Laurel V. McLaughlin, Ed Roberson, Tausif Noor, Stephanie Snyder, Lynne Tillman