9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering 1966

In 1966, a Bell Laboratories physicist brought a group of avant-garde artists together with 10 open-minded members of the science and technology fields for 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of investigatory Happenings which took place at the 69th Regiment Armory and were duly noted by critics Lucy Lippard and Brian O'Doherty. The resulting seminal performances included John Cage's Variations VII, in which 30 photocells were mounted around the performance space, activating a variety of sound sources — including a blender, 20 radio channels and two Geiger counters — as the performers moved around. This exhibition catalogue includes original essays by Clarisse Bardiot (researcher at Daniel Langlois Foundation), Michelle Kuo (Harvard PhD. candidate), and Catherine Morris (exhibition curator). It also includes reprinted reviews of the original performances 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering by Lucy Lippard and Brian O'Doherty, and an interview with Herb Schneider (engineer).

CONTEMPORARY ART
2006, 8.25 x 12.5 inches, 88 pp, color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 978-0-938437-69-7
code: list 9eve C-8
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19 Projects: Artists in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

19 Projects documents ten fertile years of the LVAC's Artist-In-Residence program. Liberated from its conventional definition of quiet display container, the List Center gallery was reconceived to become an active hybrid of studio, laboratory, library and staging area by the project artists. The catalogue includes brief introductory essays and an in-depth interview with each of the 19 artists, with documentation for each artist's work.

CONTEMPORARY
1996, 224 pp., illus.
Spiral-bound, ISBN 0-938437-51-8
code: list 19 C-8

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The Art of Detection: Surveillance in Society

Our culture desires to identify, show, quantify and regulate. The participants of The Art of Detection make work using these ideas of surveillance, in its traditional forms of video and photography and in the alternative investigative and computer-based techniques that map our movements, activities, associates and lifestyles. They explore a society that, in its concern to monitor and protect its citizens, simultaneously threatens their privacy and individuality.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 48 pp., illus.
1997
code: list art B-7

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LUCA BUVOLI: Flying--Practical Training for Beginners

This artist's book, in the shape of a wing, accompanies the premiere of Buvoli's animated film, FLYING-Practical Training for Beginners at the List Visual Arts Center. Encased in plastic pockets, the aerodynamically-designed book houses a flip book and an instructional manual which allow the reader to experience Buvoli's "33-step method" for flying.

Please Note: LUCA BUVOLI: Flying—Practical Training for Intermediates is available under Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.

2000, 164 pp. and 74 pp., color and b&w illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 0-938437-61-5
code: list fly D-8

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The Ghost in the Machine

The capabilities of digital imaging are changing our definitions of authenticity and reality, as they are conveyed in film and photography. New technologies allow unprecedented freedom in the creation and manipulation of photographic images, but for these six artists, nothing is as important as the human form and human condition. Two of the artists' work contains mature content.

*Mature Content
CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 10 pp., b&w illus.
1994
code: list gho C-8

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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Meanwhile, The Girls Were Playing

Culled from her memories of Cuba, Campos-Pons invokes the gestalt-like aura of childhood with installations full of fabric, embroidery, video, light, glass and sugar. In remembering her family life and her country's many histories through art, she can keep her culture and heritage alive in her exile from them.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 30 pp., illus.
1999
code: list mar C-8

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NEXT OF KIN: Looking at the Great Apes

Represented here are six artists who employ a variety of aesthetic approaches to advance our understanding of our complex relationships with the great apes. James Balog, Walton Ford, Sean Landers, Jean Lowe, Richard Ross, and Daisy Youngblood critique and surpass the historically-erected symbolism and archetypes that tend to dominate consideration of our evolutionary kin.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 48 pp., illus.
1995, ISBN 0-938437-50-x
code: list next B-8

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The Process of Elimination

This exhibition examines strangely overlapping patterns of biological digestion, economic consumption, and aesthetic simplification. Modern design serves both the current ideals of hygiene and the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence. Ironies, like that of organically-shaped but machine-made porcelain surfaces, occupy the aesthetics of waste.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 80 pp., illus.
1992, ISBN 0-938437-42-9
code: list pro C-7

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SUBVERSIVE CRAFTS

Included in Subversive Crafts are twelve North American artists who undermine the decorative and comfortable domesticity usually associated with crafts. These makers acknowledge the realm of the familiar and homey everyday object as a powerful milieu to provide an intimate, experimental and incisive commentary on the emotive conditions of contemporary life.

CRAFTS
PB, 60 pp., illus.
1993, ISBN 0-938437-44-5]
code: list sub C-7

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SANDY WALKER: Woodblock Prints

A group of large, dramatic woodblock prints by this California artist manage to balance the competing demands of eye, intellect and emotion, hovering between abstraction and representation. Though based in nature the prints are less the mirror of a specific location than an evocation of the rhythms and pulses of the natural world. The catalogue raisonné includes an essay by Katy Kline.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1994, 8.5 x 10 inches, 48 pp., 13 b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-938437-47-XI
code: list wal A-5

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SENSORIUM:
Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art

The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand's experiment in "controlled schizophrenia" and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller's uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman's uncanny night visions and François Roche's destabilized architecture. The catalogue features a main essay by Caroline A. Jones and essays on the artists by Bill Arning, Jane Farver, Yuko Hasegawa, and Marjory Jacobson; it also contains an Abecedarius (from "Air" to "Zoon") that offers an extensive rethinking of the body's relations with technology.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2006, 7 x 9.5 inches, 260 pp., color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-262-10117-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-10117-2
code: list sens B-8

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AA BRONSON: Mirror Mirror

Created in conjunction with AA Bronson's Mirror Mirror exhibition, this catalogue features an introduction by curator Bill Arning, who writes: “AA Bronson’s unique life as he presents it to us has been consistently public and theatrical. As one of the three members of the artists’ group General Idea for their 25-plus years of working and living together, Bronson employed his persona as the stuff of art. In 1994, their collaboration in art and life ended when Bronson’s partners, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, died of AIDS-related causes, and Bronson faced the daunting task of resuming life as just AA Bronson.”

* Mature content

CONTEMPORARY ART
2002, 6 x9 inches, 69 pp., color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-938437-63-1
code: list bron B-8

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MATTHIAS MANSEN: About the House

A full-color catalogue of work made by German woodcut artist Matthias Mansen while he was living in New York from 1989-1992. The work, About the House, which was shown only in the U.S. at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, is of monumental scale, and depicts an everyday, domestic interior, with people going about their tasks and rituals. Unfolding in a cinematic fashion, the viewer "walks" through the house that Mansen creates. The catalogue is illustrated by the artist with original woodblock prints bound into the book.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1998, 9 x 12 inches, 112 pp., color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 3-87909-535-3
code: list matt B-7

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KAY ROSEN: Short Stories/Tall Tales

While the adage, pictures are worth a thousand words, points to the endless interpretive and descriptive possibilities offered by visual representations, the specificity of language and words themselves are generally thought to offer more incisive meanings. Kay Rosen upsets this order by using language as the subject of her paintings, turning words into pictorial images that explore the vicissitudes of language. The work asks viewers to explore the ways meanings are read, derived, and decoded from language by using puns, repetitions, abrogating conventional grammatical rules, and examining the graphical properties of words themselves. With a text by exhibition organizer, the catalogue features nine hand silk-screened images of Rosen's recent work.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1997, dim, 30 pp., color illus.
Softcover (spiral bound), no ISBN
code: list kay B-8

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Colombian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso has devoted much of her artistic energy to exploring the often tenuous, always fascinating bond between humans and other animal species. In her sculpture she transforms preserved grasshoppers, snakes, frogs, piranhas and other fauna into classical minimal shapes and arrangements.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1994, 5 x 7.5 inches, 32 pp., 16 full color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-938437-46-1
code: list card B-8

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PAUL PFEIFFER

Using advanced technology to transform and isolate moments from movies and televised sporting events, Paul Pfeiffer's work examines contemporary notions of racial and sexual identity and how we respond to the human body when it is placed in extreme situations such as ecstasy and pain. Pfeiffer's work also explores issues of time and the increasingly blurry distinction between reality and representation in everyday life. Produced by the MIT List Visual Arts Center in conjunction with Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago this fully-illustrated catalogue features a conversation between Paul Pfeiffer and John Baldessari.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2003, 9 x 10 inches, 63 pp., color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-933856-78-4
code: list pfe C-8

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MUNTADAS: Between the Frames—The Forum

A document of the video installation by Spanish artist Antonio Muntadas, this catalogue includes stills from the installation, comments from Muntadas, and production notes from Caterina Borelli. Between The Frames confronts viewers with a provocative series of interviews casting light on the practices and values embedded in the institutional presentation of contemporary art. It is a rich and illuminating stimulus to discourse - addressing as it does a variety of cultural practices from a truly international perspective.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1995, 4 x 8.5 inches, 48pp., color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-938437-49-6
code: list munt C-7

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ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ: Recent Photographs

This exhibition includes fourteen recent, large-scale black and white photographs by a German-born artist presently living and working in Montréal. Portraits, nudes, landscapes, urban sites and interior settings are among Grauerholz's diverse subjects. Her tentative images are soft-focused, sepia-toned and ambiguous in relation to time and place. Influenced by film and literature, the artist wants her photographs to be "as open as I can possibly make them, so that the viewer can reinvest what he or she feels into a particular scene, into a particular image."

PHOTOGRAPHY
1993, 8 x 10.5 inches, 32 pp., 14 bi-color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-938437-45-3
code: list grau B-7