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A group exhibition exploring the mysteries and militarization of outer spaceAccompanying the eponymous group exhibition at University Galleries of Illinois State University, this catalog features 29 works by artists that critically engage in poetic, scientific and geopolitical views of the cosmos. Artists include: Amy Balkin, Jen Bervin, William Cordova, Ala Ebtekar, Trevor Paglen and Cauleen Smith.

Chronicling the community-based projects of a prolific Californian fiber artistChicago-based artist Aram Han Sifuentes (born 1986) makes textiles and participatory works confronting disenfranchisement. This monograph focuses on four community-based projects: A Mend, U.S. Citizenship Test Sampler, Protest Banner Lending Library and Official Unofficial Voting Station.

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Apocalyptic absurdism: films, photographs, text and installation works by Egyptian artist Basim MagdyThis book--published in conjunction with Egyptian artist Basim Magdy's (born 1977) solo exhibition at Illinois State University--documents six films, a photographic installation and a newly commissioned text-based work.

This publication explores the relationships between works by 21 contemporary women artists and the women writers they acknowledge and reference, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Octavia Butler. Includes works by Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Coco Fusco, Xaviera Simmons and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.

TASK" documents a burgeoning phenomenon begun in 2002 by artist Oliver Herring. Herring developed TASK as a self-generating, improvisational gathering in which a community engages in a collaborative art-making event. Using cardboard, tape, aluminum foil, pipe cleaners, markers and other materials, participants follow a simple set of rules: write a task for someone to perform, then randomly select a task to perform yourself (e.g. "Use cardboard...

Featuring photographs and films made between 2006 and 2015, Nine Trips around the Sun offers a survey of what Carrie Schneider (born 1979) describes as "documents of something performed for the camera, " and demonstrates the range of lens-based processes she has employed. Included is Schneider's entrancing recent series Reading Women, for which the artist photographed and filmed 100 individual female artists, curators, writers and musicians in...

The House of the Seven Gables is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel. Serving as a repository of memory and atonement, the titular mansion itself functions as a portrait of the family's collective trauma. This publication features 27 works by 22 contemporary artists who explore themes of haunting, portraiture and the architectural uncanny. In acknowledgement of its direct relationship to an existing book, The House of the Seven Gables...