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Magic

Contributor(s): Series: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublisher: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021Description: 239 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780262543033
  • 0262543036
  • 0854882901
  • 9780854882908
Uniform titles:
  • Magic (M.I.T. Press)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N66 .M35 2021
Contents:
Magical critical -- Shadow modern -- Ritual media -- Psychic self-defence.
Summary: "This anthology will provide the first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice"-- Provided by publisher.
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Artists surveyed include Holly Pester, Katrina Palmer, Ithell Colquhoun, Monica Sjöo, Sophia Al-Maria, Jack Burnham, Jeremy Millar, Susan Hiller, Mike Kelley, Morehshin Allahyari, Center for Tactical Magic, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Travis Jeppesen, Linda Stupart, Caspar Heinemann, Elizabeth Mputu, Faith Wilding, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, Henri Michaux, Kenneth Anger, Benedict Drew, Mark Leckey, Robert Morris, Jenna Sutela, Haroon Mirza, Zadie Xa, Saya Woolfalk, Ian Cheng, Tabita Rezaire, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Elijah Burgher, Pierre Paulo Pasolini, Sahej Rahal.

Writers include Charles Fort, Victoria Nelson, Gary Lachman, Yvonne P. Chireau, Randall Styers, Isabelle Stengers, Alan Moore, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Simon O' Sullivan, Lucy Lippard, Louis Chude Sokei, Patricia MacCormack, Æ, Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, Michel Leiris, Aimé Césaire, Austin Osman Spare, Erik Davis, Mark Dery, Elaine Graham, Jeffrey Sconce, Giulia Smith, Esther Leslie, Alice Bucknell, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Hannah Gregory, Kristen Gallerneaux, Mahan Moalemi, Jamie Sutcliffe, Gregory Sholette, Aaron Gach, Eugene Thacker, Diane Di Prima, Allan Doyle, Emily LaBarge, Lou Cornum, Joy KMT, Scott Wark, McKenzie Wark, Phil Hine, Jackie Wang, Sean Bonney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Magical critical -- Shadow modern -- Ritual media -- Psychic self-defence.

Introduction. Magic: A gramarye for artists / Jamie Sutcliffe -- MAGICAL-CRITICAL. The book of the damned, 1919 / Charles Fort -- Grotto, an opening, 2001 / Victoria Nelson -- Rejected knowledge, 2015 / Gary Lachman -- Black magic, 2006 / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Magic and social control, 2004 / Randall Styers -- Overlay, 1983 / Lucy R. Lippard -- Reclaiming animism, 2012 / Isabelle Stengers -- Fossil angels, 2002 / Alan Moore -- Toward a theory of the dark fantastic, 2018 / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas -- Fictioning five heads (on the art-anthropology hybrid), 2018 / Simon O'Sullivan -- Dr. Satan's echo chamber, 1997 / Louis Chude-Sokei -- Occulture: secular spirituality, 2020 / Patricia MacCormack -- How to believe weird things, 2021 / Mark Pilkington -- SHADOW MODERN. Retrospect, 1918 / Æ -- The difficulty of representation, 1905 / Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater -- 'Margery' - the story of an index of slides, 2014 / Holly Pester -- Sigils: Belief with protection, 1913 / Austin Osman Spare -- All that scrawl: Toward a wild writing, 2019 / Travis Jeppesen -- The hieroglyphic monad, 1927 / Michel Leiris -- Before and after science, 2002 / Susan Hiller -- Poetry and knowledge, 1945 / Aimé Césaire -- The water stone of the wise, 1943 / Ithell Colquhoun -- Odra Deck, 2021 / Anna Zett -- Women's dream-journeying across Salisbury Plain : Reclaiming earth our mother from the military, 1985 / Monica Sjöo -- The unknowing X (Weave the future golden over dark days), 2018 / Sophia Al-Maria -- Voices from the gate, 1974 / Jack Burnham -- Sentences on magic (after Sol Lewitt), 2009 / Jeremy Millar -- Did anyone read the book? (Female voices underlying background disturbances and a stately aquatic bird), 2020 / Katrina Palmer -- RITUAL MEDIA. Techgnosis: Magic, memory and the angels of information, 1994 / Erik Davis -- Deus ex machina: Technopaganism, 1996 / Mark Dery -- Cyborgs or goddesses? Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age, 1999 / Elaine Graham -- I've got this strange feeling..., 2004 / Mike Kelley and Jeffrey Sconce -- Streamed through the veins of leaves: Elizabeth Mputu and Faith Wilding's remedial plants, 2018 / Giulia Smith -- Mark Leckey's Anima mundi, 2013 / Esther Leslie -- The new mystics: Hight-tech magic for the present, 2019 / Alice Bucknell -- Jenna Sutela: Soul, meat, and pattern, 2020 / Gary Zhexi Zhang -- Dark matters: in conversation with Hannah Gregory, 2017 / Morehshin Allahyari -- Richard Grayson: Possessions Inc., 2019 / Jamie Sutcliffe -- Trapped in a sticky shed with side chain compression, 2019 / Kristen Gallerneaux -- Earthbound, 2021 / Mahan Moalemi -- Secret pockets, 2006 / Gregory Sholette and Aaron Gach -- Cinema and demonology, 2014 / Eugene Thacker -- Curtainz, 2021 / David Stearns -- The mask of Zelda: Dark enternities, 2017 / Porpentine Charity Heartscape -- PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENCE. Revolutionary letter #45, 1971 / Diane Di Prima -- Gay death cult, 2015 / Allan Doyle -- Cthulhu madness, 1995 / Phil Hine -- A spell to bind male artists from murdering you, 2016 / Linda Stupart -- Ana Mendieta: Emotional artist, 2019 / Emily LaBarge -- White magic, 2018 / Lou Cornum -- Challenging deeper structures, 2019 / Amy Hale -- Magic work: Queerness as remystification, 2014 / Caspar Heinemann -- Time travelling bodies, 2016 / Joy KMT -- Circulation and its discontents, 2019 / Scott Wark and McKenzie Wark -- Letter against the language, 2019 / Sean Bonney -- Oceanic feeling and communist affect, 2016 / Jackie Wang.

"This anthology will provide the first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice"-- Provided by publisher.

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