Ann Hamilton : the picture is still

Book

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Ann Hamilton : the picture is still

Entry/Object ID

N9500.H36.A55

Description

The installations created by American artist Ann Hamilton are as atmospheric as they are intellectually complex, as grandiose and whimsical as they are serious and political. Whether she is employing tons of work clothes, a herd of ostriches, thousands of dollars' worth of pennies, kilometers of typewriter ribbon, loaves and loaves of bread dough, or teams of volunteer workers, Hamilton's process-oriented, site-specific environments incorporate viewers, teaching them to use their senses anew. In one of her most recent and spectacular works, which gives its name to this book, the artist inhabited a former torpedo factory at Yokosuka -- a symbol-laden place in Japan, consecutively used by domestic and American armies for extensive military bases -- and hung charcoal rods from the ceiling on strings of different length. The result was a space oppressed by the heavy shadows of the dense, blackened mass of dead matter that hung from above, filled with an abysmal sadness that conjured up the darker chapters of the history of Japanese-American relations.

Context

Published on occasion of the installation at the Akira Ikeda Gallery/Taura, Yokosuka, 19 May 2001-18 May 2002.

Collection

Carol Westfall Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

art--japan, artist monographs, exhibitions, installations (art), site-specific installations

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tomoaki Kitagawa, Takao Ueda

Volume/Number/Issue

No. 198

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Akira Ikeda Gallery

Place Published

City

Ostfildern

State/Province

Baden-Württemberg

Country

Germany

Continent

Europe

Location

Suzuka, Japan

Date Published

2003

Publication Language

English, German, Japanese

Call No.

N9500.H36.A55

ISBN

3775712429, 9783775712422

Notes

Length: 111

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

With closed eyes / Tomoaki Kitagawa -- The theater of silence, the signified and the unspoken in Ann Hamilton's spaces / Bernhart Schwenk -- The history of Yokosuka / Takeo Ueda -- Indigo blue, aleph, attendance, tropos -- The capacity of absorption, salic, reserve.