A deep dive into the video artist's latest installation fusing color, light and sound to upend our perception of space and time The subject of this volume is the colossal traveling immersive installation conceived by British film director and video artist Steve McQueen (born 1969). Under his direction, the 30,000-square-foot ground-level gallery at Dia Beacon is transformed into an installation comprising 60 lightboxes, in concert with a sonic component performed by world-renowned bassists. The cocommission will be shown at Schaulager, Basel, in 2026. The accompanying publication features an introduction by Dia curator Donna De Salvo, who embeds the work in the context of McQueen's oeuvre to date, along with five essays by leading experts in musicology, cultural studies and Black studies as well as a narrative reflection by an esteemed poet. An extensive series of plates reflects the reverberating character of the color, light and sound installation, with further illustrations documenting the planning and realization process of this site-specific project. Christina Sharpe is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being--named by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2016--and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. She is currently Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Department of Humanities, at York University, in Toronto. John Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions. His most recent book, Punks: New & Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Paul Gilroy is at the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Steve McQueen (Author) Tsitsi Ella Jaji (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Christina Sharpe (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) John Keene (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Katherine McKittrick (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Robert Fink (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Paul Gilroy (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Donna de Salvo (Editor) Elsa Himmer (Editor) Emily Markert (Editor) Isabel Friedli (Editor) Jessica Morgan (Foreword by) Maja Oeri (Foreword by) Publisher: Dia Art Foundation Publish Date: December 10, 2024 Pages: 184 Language: English Type: Paperback EAN/UPC: 9780944521205 BISAC Categories: Individual Artists - Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General, Film & Video
