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Guided by 20 "figures of interest," 70 contemporary artists chart the history and mythology of New Mexico and the American Southwest The 12th SITE Santa Fe International is grounded in the biographies of over 20 "figures of interest" with strong ties to New Mexico and the surrounding region. These figures—real or fictional, historical or contemporary, everyday or well known—serve as the guiding framework for the over 70 artists in the exhibition.

Renowned for disrupting and reconfiguring space in unexpected ways, Austrian artist Hans Schabus, born in 1970, produces site-specific installations that use spatial displacement to debunk cultural symbols. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Schabus made Deserted Conquest, a 15,000-square-foot installation commissioned by SITE Santa Fe, 2007. Taking the New Mexico landscape as his subject, he created a series of confrontations that dismantle our cultural romanticism of the desert landscape and idealizations of "the West." This consisted of two new videos, sculptures, drawings and a variety of found objects, including a partially reconstructed mobile home and more than 100 tons of dirt. Viewers were encouraged to navigate the terrain freely, their tracks transforming the space over time. As a further conceit orchestrated by the artist, the catalogue's full-color images are photographed along cardinal lines, lending the reader a fresh perspective on the original exhibit.

Published on the occasion of the long overdue first retrospective of the Icelandic-born, Santa Fe-based New Media art pioneer, Steina, this monograph is one of the only substantial publications to recognize a female artist's contribution to the field. Over the course of her 30-year career, Steina has expanded the boundaries of video technology and electronic imaging through experimentation and play that deftly merge electrical engineering and musical composition into an unprecedented visual aesthetic. This volume, thoughtfully organized by SITE Santa Fe, comes complete with more than 80 color reproductions and a series of critical essays that significantly enhance the scant existing scholarship on this iconic artist. In addition, it includes the first published interview--an instantly classic text for scholars, artists and anyone interested in video and installation art--between Steina and Media Arts theorist Gene Youngblood.

In SITE Santa Fe's Eighth International Biennial, held in 2010, curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco, emerging and established artists working in many media displayed works that mined techniques of early animation and moving-image technologies to create a hybrid practice of homespun plus high-tech. This exquisitely designed volume arising from the event is titled The Dissolve, a title that points both at this new sensibility emerging from the old and at the two-way nature of the dissolve in moving images as both ephemeral and generative. The Dissolve presents art by Robert Breer, Paul Chan, Martha Colburn, Thomas Demand, Ezra Johnson, Bill T. Jones, William Kentridge, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Raymond Pettibon, Rob Pruitt, Robin Rhode and others. Scholars Nancy Mowll Mathews, Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco contribute essays on the concept of the hybridization of new media combined with painting, drawing and collage. Also included are a timeline of animation practices and an artists' panel discussion.

Mungo Thomson (born 1969) is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work explores mass culture and cosmology. Thomson’s work addresses the small, everyday voids that exist within culture--the gaps, digressions and mistakes that are an inevitable part of institutions and everyday life. The artist’s first catalogue overview, Time People Money Crickets consists of a selection of nine works in a range of media including film, video, artist’s books and installations. The publication is inspired by 1960s popular science compendiums.

Unsettled Landscapes, published for Santa Fe's inaugural SITElines Biennial, looks at the urgencies, political conditions and historical narratives that inform the work of contemporary artists across the Americas. Work by 47 artists from 14 different countries is featured.

Much Wider Than a Line is the second installment in SITElines, a reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. Featuring over 30 artists from 10 countries and five new commissions, SITElines 2016 articulates the interconnectedness of the Americas and various shared experiences such as colonial legacies, the vernacular and relationships to the land. The catalogue includes works by artists Xenobia Bailey, Lina Bo Bardi, Francisca Benitez, Margarita Cabrera, Raven Chacon, Benvenuto Chavajay, Lewis deSoto, Aaron Dysart, Carla Fernández, Pablo Helguera, Graciela Iturbide, Zacharias Kunuk, David Lamelas, Cildo Meireles and Erika Verzutti, plus new commissioned pieces by Jonathas De Andrade, Anna Boghiguian, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, William Cordova, Jorge Gonzáalez and Julia Rometti & Victor Costales.

New Mexico Field Drawings is the outcome of a 2017 residency by New York–based artist Alexis Rockman (born 1962) at SITE Santa Fe, and accompanies a 2017–18 presentation of the work at SITE Santa Fe.