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Item Details
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KEVIN SCHMIDT
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| By: |
Nigel Prince, Kathleen Ritter, Charo Neville |
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Paperback |
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£29.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1910433764 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781910433768 |
| Publisher: |
BLACK DOG PUBLISHING LONDON UK |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2016 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
First monographic survey dedicated to performance, video, photography and installation artist Kevin Schmidt. Perhaps best known for his performance expeditions and interventions into the natural world, this book charts Schmidt's ongoing body of work addressing the tensions between man and nature, performance and document and indoors and outdoors. |
| Synopsis: |
This publication comprises the first monographic survey dedicated to artist Kevin Schmidt. Based in Vancouver, Schmidt is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, photography and installation who has exhibited widely across North America and Europe. He is perhaps best known for performance expeditions and interventions into the natural world, which are documented in photographs, installations and videos, such as his eleven-and-a-half-hour Epic Journey, which documents a marathon nighttime screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a small boat as it drifted down the Fraser River, or his Aurora with Roman Candle, which shows him firing roman candles at the Aurora Borealis.At a time when we might consider cultural production as being democratised through the Internet, Schmidt combines notions of the heroic with the seemingly amateur by using visible reminders of construction and theatrical devices-smoke machines, stage lights and DIY photographic equipment. Through this he proposes a utopian assertion of "the commons", where both land and culture are publicly accessible to all.Presented in partnership with Kamloops Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, this publication features essays by Charo Neville, Kathleen Ritter and an artist interview with Nigel Prince.The book charts Schmidt's ongoing body of work addressing the tensions between man and nature, performance and document and indoors and outdoors. These propositions are tackled through references to landscape, the invocation of the sublime at the point of apprehending such wild beauty, and by juxtaposing seemingly disparate elements within these environments. Works are often situated in remote locations, where Schmidt stages remarkable events that transfer elements of urban culture into untouched natural contexts. In this way, he simultaneously examines both the seductive elements of contemporary cultural production and the constructions that surround the idea of nature. |
| Illustrations: |
106 |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Black Dog Publishing London UK |
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Returnable |
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