Research Catalog

Title

The Propeller Group / [edited by] Naomi Beckwith.

Publication

Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beckwith, Naomi
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), organizer, host institution.
• Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston organizer, host institution.
• Phoenix Art Museum organizer, host institution.

Description

103 pages; 26 cm. +

Summary

"The Propeller Group—an artist team made up of Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam—blurs the boundaries between fine art and media production, in much the same way that this publication blurs the boundaries between a traditional exhibition catalogue and an artist book. The catalogue features expository essays by curators Naomi Beckwith and Cesar Garcia, as well as contributions by each of the members of The Propeller Group: Tuan pens an obituary for the group that pays homage to Vietnamese funereal celebrations, Phunam shares an astrological reading that similarly honors the cultural legacy of Vietnam, and Lucero creates a travelogue that records the group’s recent exploration of the natural beauty of Papua New Guinea. This is the first scholarly treatment on The Propeller Group, published on the occasion of the group’s exhibition at the MCA. The exhibition presents a number of multipart projects, comprised of videos and related objects, from the past five years for the first time since the group was formed in 2006."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

MCA Monographs

Uniform Title

MCA monographs.

Subject

Propeller Group (Art collective) > Exhibitions

Note

• "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Propeller Group, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, and the Phoenix Art Museum."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The mythology of dying / Tuan Andrew Nguyen -- Foreword -- Directors' acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- If all goes as planned / Naomi Beckwith -- Project: The guerrillas of Cu Chi -- Project: AK-47 vs. M16 -- Project: The dream -- Project: Fade in: Ext. storage - Cu Chi - Day -- The year of our rebirth / Phunam -- Project: Television commercial for communism -- Project: AK-47 vs. M16, The film -- Project: The living need light, the dead need music -- I can't imagine ever wanting to be / Cesar Garcia -- Biographies and exhibition history -- Contributors -- Exhibition lenders -- Captions and credits -- The three Californias / Matt Lucero.

ISBN

• 9780996211628
• 0996211624

LCCN

• ^^2016017666
• 40026268455

OCLC

• 946726017
• SCSB-10318665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library