Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#12596

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us

Artist
Bill Burns
Date
2016
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Format
Artists' Books
Size
15 × 22 cm
Length
224 pages
Genre
Photography, Performance Art
Description

Perhaps best known for his Safety Gear for Small Animals (SGSA) project, which was first shown at 303 Gallery in New York in 1994, conceptual artist Bill Burns works across a variety of disciplines to reveal the perpetual power play between natural orders ad cultural formations.

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us is a collection of writings exploring the transgressive and transdiciplinary nature of Burns’ Practice. The publication is richly illustrated with material representing Burns’ work across photography, performance, writing and artists’ books.

In her foreword to the publication, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda recognizes that the after-effect of Burns’ work is deeply disillusioning, breaking up and foreclosing the harmonious unity of identity, micro and macrocosmic alike. Curator and art historian Dan Adler draws attention to the meaningless while casting doubt on the venerable. Lastly, art critic Jennifer Allen uncovers some of the forces at work within Burn’s narrativisation of his personal life and reflection on his role as an artist, asserting the act of forgetting is structural to Burns’ overall narrative composition.

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us also includes a first-person narrative by Burns, telling the story of his life through episodes that, although seemingly incongruous, have played a formative role in the development of the artist’s career. This history, like memory, is less contiguous than spontaneous, more preoccupied with prophecies and mood swings than the sterileness of factuality.

  1. Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us
 

Related Items

  1. Bill Burns: Ornamental Stick
  2. Ziggurat: General Idea 1968-1994
  3. Hannah Landecker, Bruno Latour, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cooking Sections, and David Zilber: Salmon: A Red Herring
  4. Bill Burns: 0800.0FAUNA0FLORA
  5. Raqs Media Collective: Casebook
  6. Lars Ahlstrom and Hans Anders Molin: Airspace
  7. Bill Burns, Seth Scriver, and Derek Sullivan: AM Gift Box
  8. Bernhard Cella: Covers
  9. Bill Burns: Three Books and an Audio CD About Plants and Animals and War
  10. Bill Burns: Art Dealer Gloves
  11. Bill Burns: Prison Tower Plans, Prison Cell Plans and the Songs of Guantanamo Bay
  12. Louis M Schmidt: The Ghosts of The Living Will Never Hear What The Seashell Whispers
  13. Thomas Mailaender: The Night Climbers of Cambridge
  14. Hans Schabus : Hans Schabus: Transport
  15. Smoke Room 4
  16. Smoke Room 3
  17. Jesus Days
  18. Guantanamo.
  19. Leah James: Night Skies
  20. Leah James: photographs
  21. Filipe Casaca: Blue Mud Swamp
  22. Filipe Casaca: my home is where you are (a minha casa é onde estás)
  23. Eric Doeringer: Autobiography (after Sol LeWitt)
  24. Katrin Koffman: Ensembles Assembled: In Full Color
  25. Mira Mexico
  26. Ryan Trecartin: Yet
  27. Un Ano de Basura (One Year of Garbage)
  28. A Sudden Drop
  29. A Sudden Drop Collector’s Edition
  30. Portraits by Waiters
  31. Wheels and Trophies
  32. Stephen Gill: Hackney Wick
  33. Stephen Gill: Coming Up For Air