Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989
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Teesside University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 15766930
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9781913107017
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Perks is co-editor of this collectively conceived book, published by Yale University Press & Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Specifically co-writing the introduction and responsible for writing and editing Part 3, Perks selected the artists and interviewed them to create 23 original text statements.
The last major survey focused on Britain and Artist Moving Image ended in 2006 (Curtis 2006). Some from the limited field have overviewed it from a wider (exclusively Euro-centric) perspective (Hamlyn 2003, Connolly 2009, Rees 2011, Meigh-Andrews 2013, Elwes 2015). The editorship recontextualises and expands the debates central to the field (not fully adopted by either art or film), including technology, economics and the environment, by adopting a socio-political perspective on the last thirty years of the medium, whilst handing over the historical narrative to a range of academics, curators/institutional voices and artists. Artist voices in particular are not included in prior historical surveys, and references are often reduced to a canon of familiar names. This publication’s multi-vocal approach interrogates the notion of Britain and Britishness, producing new understandings of working in a UK-context, and on the relationship with inclusion and identities. Perks articulated this through the artist statements and addressing geographical activity outside London.
The book came out of a two-day conference Artists’ Moving Image Practice in Britain: From 1990 to Today (2015) at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Perks also worked with artist James Richards to create a cover collaboration for the online journal British Art Studies, marking the publication launch (November 2019) https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-14/cover
“Woven through the academic essays, curatorial reminiscences and artists’ statements that make up Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 is a dramatic narrative of dissolution and reformation.” Julian Stallabrass, Burlington Contemporary, 10.03.20
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards: 2020 Moving Image Book Award (Longlist)
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