Research Catalog

Title

Allan Sekula : Okeanos / edited by Daniela Zyman and Cory Scozzari.

Author

Sekula, Allan.

Publication

• Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Zyman, Daniela.
• Scozzari, Cory.
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Foundation)

Description

277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

This publication intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of Allan Sekula's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks. The title is a reference to Okeanos son of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the earth who ruled over the oceans and water. Made and written across the decades, Sekula's sketches and texts focus on maritime space and the material, economic, and ecological implications of globalization. In projects such as his magnum opus Fish Story (1989?95), or films like Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten Space (2010), Sekula provided a view from and of the sea. This publication expands on these oceanic themes, seeking to honor the scope and complexity of the late artist-theorist's work, and situate his ideas in current political, social, and environmental discourses. The book is divided thematically: the section "Containerization" focuses on the sea as a site of infrastructural complication; Sekula's work Black Tide / Marea negra (2002-3) is also revisited, which explores environmental violence and contamination as well as their social implications; a selection from Sekula's personal drawings are accompanied by an essay by photo historian Sally Stein; various essays readdress Sekula's legacy in the age of the Anthropocene; and a number of case studies by contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers examine ideas that overlap with Sekula's and expand on his interests.

Alternative Title

Okeanos

Subject

• Sekula, Allan > Exhibitions
• Sekula, Allan
• 1900-2099
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Essays.
• Photobooks.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, February 21-May 14, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fish story / Allan Sekula -- Not just a fish story / Daniela Zyman -- Carceral seas / Laleh Khalili -- "Back to the drawing board" : maritime themes and discursive crosscurrents in the notebooks of Allan Sekula / Sally Stein -- Brazil 07/23/2010, notebook 120 / Allan Sekula -- Black tide : fragments for an opera / Allan Sekula -- Arrested flow : Allan Sekula in Galicia / Carles Guerra Rojas -- Sisyphus's prestige : on Allan Sekula's Marea negra : fragmentos para una ópera / Gabriele Mackert -- The forgotten space / film script by Allan Sekula and Nöel Burch -- The ocean as a forgotten space of capitalism / Philip Steinberg -- Park / Keller Easterling -- Dismal science : part 1 / Allan Sekula -- Dismal science : narratives of violence and extinction in the age of the anthropocene / Celina Jeffery -- Inter-Pacific ring tribunal (INTERPRT) / Nabil Ahmed -- Transcending history : considering a belt and road archive / Jegan Vincent de Paul -- Sekula beyond Sekula : a conversation between Filipa Ramos and Cory Scozzari.

ISBN

• 3956793374
• 9783956793370

OCLC

992357943

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library