For more than two decades, the artist Renée Green has created an impressive body of work in which language is an essential element. Green is also a prolific writer and a major voice in the international art world. Other Planes of There gathers for the first time a substantial collection of the work she wrote between 1981 and 2010. The selected essays initially appeared in publications in different countries and languages, making their availability in this volume a boon to those wanting to follow Green's artistic and intellectual trajectory.
Charting this cosmopolitan artist’s thinking through the decades, Other Planes of There brings essays, film scripts, reviews, and polemics together with reflections on Green's own artistic practice and seminal artworks. It immerses the reader in three decades of contemporary art showcasing the art and thought, the incisive critiques and prescient observations of one of our foremost artists and intellectuals. Sound, cinema, literature, time-based media, and the relationship between art forms and other forms of knowledge are just a few of the matters that Green takes up and thinks through. Sixty-four pages of color plates were selected by the artist for this lavishly illustrated volume.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introductory Essays
- Other Planes, Different Phases, My Geometry, Times, Movements: Becomings Ongoing
- Remarks on the Writings of Renée Green, by Gloria Sutton
- Genealogies
- 1. Sites of Criticism: A Symposium. Practices: The Problem of Division of Cultural Labor. Statement (1992)
- 2. Discourse on Afro-American Art: The Twenties (1981)
- 3. I Won’t Play Other to Your Same (1990)
- 4. What’s Painting Got to Do with It? : Representing Gender and Sexuality in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction (1990)
- 5. From Camino Road (1994)
- Circuits of Exchange
- 6. Open Letter #1: On Influence (1992)
- 7. Open Letter #2: Another Attempt (1993)
- 8. Collectors, Creators, and Shoppers (1994)
- 9. Peripatetic at “Home” (1995)
- 10. Free Agent Media / FAM (1995)
- 11. Situationist Text (2001)
- 12. Introductory Notes of a Reader and “A Contemporary Moment” (2001)
- Encounters
- 13. Trading on the Margin (1991)
- 14. Democracy in Question (1991)
- 15. Notes from a User: L’informe (1996)
- 16. Spike Lee’s Mix: Calculated Risks and Assorted Reckonings(1996)
- 17. Compared to What? (1998)
- 18. Notes on Humanist and Ecological Republic and Lac Mantasoa(2000)
- 19. Other Planes of There (2004)
- 20. Archives, Documents? : Forms of Creation, Activation, and Use (2008)
- 21. On Kawara’s Solutions to Living (2010)
- Positions
- 22. “Give Me Body”: Freaky Fun, Biopolitics, and Contact Zones (1995)
- 23. Dropping Science: Art and Technology Revisited 2.0 (1995)
- 24. Site-Specificity Unbound: Considering “Participatory Mobility” (1998)
- 25. Slippages (1997)
- 26. Affection Afflictions: My Alien/My Self, or More “Reading at Work” (1998)
- 27. Survival: Ruminations on Archival Lacunae (2001)
- 28. Beyond (2006)
- 29. Place (2006)
- Operations
- 30. Sites of Genealogy (1990)
- 31. VistaVision: Landscape of Desire (1991)
- 32. Tracing Lusitania: Excerpts from an Imagined Prototype (1995)
- 33. Secret, Part 1. Practiced Places (1992–1993)
- 34. Secret, Part 2. Scenes from a Group Show: Project Unité (1993)
- 35. Inventory of Clues (1993)
- 36. Eighteen Aphoristic Statements (1994)
- 37. Collecting Well Is the Best Revenge (1995)
- 38. The Digital Import/Export Funk Office (1995)
- 39. Wavelinks Transmitted amidst “Dangerous Crossings”: Reflections in 2006 (2000, 2006)
- 40. Standardized Octagonal Units for Imagined and Existing Systems (2002)
- 41. Sound Forest Folly: Intermediary Units of a Variable Number (2004)
- 42. Why Systems? (2004)
- 43. Relay (2005)
- 44. Index (From Oblivion): Paradoxes and Climates. Thought Experiments: Warm-up Notes (2005)
- 45. Climates and Paradoxes (2005)
- 46. Why Reply? (2007)
- 47. Now It Seems Like a Dream (2007)
- 48. Imagine This Wherever and Whoever You Are (2008)
- 49. Come Closer: Prelude to Endless Dreams and Water Between (2008)
- 50. Come Closer (2008)
- 51. Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009)
- Plate Captions
- Publishing History
- Curriculum Vitae
- Index
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