{"title":"Publications","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBooks, catalogues and other printed publications document and extend Artspace’s work with artists and writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBuilding on a rich history of publishing critical readers, exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, Artspace’s publications offer a lasting way to engage with contemporary art. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together artists’ ideas, critical writing and documentation, these publications expand on the thinking behind exhibitions, projects and artistic practices, and share it with audiences beyond the gallery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-communion-of-strange-gestures-angelica-mesiti","title":"A Communion of Strange Gestures: Angelica Mesiti","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduced to accompany Relay Leagues, a major solo exhibition commissioned by Artspace Sydney in 2017, Angelica Mesiti: A Communion of Stranger Gestures is the first significant monograph chronicling the practice of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work Relay Leagues takes as its departure point a Morse code message transmitted by the French Navy on 31 January 1997 to signal the imminent demise of this communication method. Morse code, which entailed a system of dot and dash radio signals and was often utilised as a language of distress at sea, was phased out after 130 years in favour of new digital communications. Inspired by this final poetic phrase, here Mesiti interprets its original dots and dashes through music, choreography, non-verbal communication and sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngelica Mesiti: A Communion of Stranger Gestures includes text from Justin Clemens and François Quintin, contributions from Alexie Glass-Kantor, Michelle Newton, Talia Linz, JD Reforma, Lola Pinder and Elyse Goldfinch (Artspace, Sydney), Jacqueline Doughty and Melissa Keys (Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne), and Angela Goddard and Bree Richards (Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Book, Blue, Fabric hard cover, Cream text, depressed impression of Morse Code over text)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN - 978-1-760640-14-9\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artspace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43748011933773,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"52-artists-52-actions-small-acts-of-disobedience","title":"52 Artists, 52 Actions: Small Acts of Disobedience","description":"\u003cp\u003e52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS champions small acts of disobedience undertaken live and online by 52 artists from 31 countries across Asia, addressing important concerns locally and globally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom historical revisionism in the Philippines to micro-celebrities in Bangladesh, military abuse in Myanmar to rising sea levels in Indonesia, visibility for LGBTQI+ people of colour to contemporary Indigeneity, the artists tackle critical issues with determination, innovation and humour. Each week, the work of a different artist is presented in a unique context, spanning a year of new artistic practice across the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the role of activism and protest throughout, the focus is on art-as-action that has the power to raise awareness and invoke change. With striking images and bold, graphic design, 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS is an encyclopaedia of creative responses to political and social issues facing contemporary Asia.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(White hard cover with dust jacket featuring performance documentation of Echo Morgan's work Delete, 2017.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-7607604-2-7\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artspace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43748128030797,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-curtain-breathed-deeply-justene-williams","title":"The Curtain Breathed Deeply: Justene Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Curtain Breathed Deeply, Justene Williams melds references from art history – Picasso, Leger and Kahlo – with a range of everyday pop cultural influences including hip hop music, Milli Vanilli and A Chorus Line. In a series of choreographed performative videos the artist blends together references drawing on rituals of Shamanism, Voodooism and Modernist primitivism. Williams amasses together a collection of visual and aural curiosities through a wealth of patterns, colours, textures and tonalities, many of which draw from the artist’s own childhood. Calling upon memories of her father’s wrecking yard, her childhood training in dance, and her experiences constructing elaborate retail window displays, Williams uses found objects and waste materials to create dazzling theatrical environments.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(glossy hard cover with blue geometric shapes and embossed title, gold spine with white lettering.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781920781552\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artspace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43748131242061,"sku":null,"price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"centre-of-the-centre-mel-o-callaghan","title":"Centre of the Centre: Mel O’Callaghan","description":"\u003cp\u003eCo-published with Confort Moderne (Poitiers) and UQ Art Museum (Brisbane), this 200 page full-colour book has been designed by Clemens Habicht, Collider (Sydney), to reflect the elegance of O'Callaghan's approach. Featuring major new texts from leading Australian academic and writer Professor Edward Scheer, University of New South Wales (Sydney); Daria de Beauvais, Senior Curator, Palais de Tokyo (Paris); and Kathryn Weir, Director, Madre Contemporary Art Museum (Naples) in conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University (New York). The book also includes interviews between the artist and marine geologist, Dr. Daniel J. 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The artist explains: ‘I’m curious about how we come to terms with objects that were collected and are now lost to the archive; how these objects can morph into new forms of dialogue, become tools of reciprocity and repatriation within the framework of decolonisation.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-876017-03-3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the world’s refugee crisis continues to grow and displacement dominates our contemporary experience, understanding how Indigenous concepts, practices and stories can be translated across cultures is more than ever relevant. 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By turns scathing, funny, and lyrical, Money uses her poetry as an extension of protest against the violence of the colonial state, and as a celebration of Blak and queer love. Deeply personal and fiercely political, thee poems attempt to remember, reimagine and re-voice history. Writing in both Wiradjuri and English language, Money explores how places and bodies hold memories, and the ways our ancestors walk with us, speak through us and wait for us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-0-7022-6338-5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artspace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43748144840781,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"mark-the-dawn-jazz-money","title":"Mark the Dawn Jazz Money","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Jazz Money returns with her much-anticipated new poetry collection to ask about all th ways we rise to a moment. 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