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Raven Chacon

A Worm’s Eye View From a Bird’s Beak
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The first ever monograph on the groundbreaking work of artist and composer Raven Chacon. A career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon's scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-colour documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and performances. Raven Chacon is a composer and artist... Read More
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The first ever monograph on the groundbreaking work of artist and composer Raven Chacon.

A career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon's scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-colour documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and performances.

Raven Chacon is a composer and artist creating musical experiences that explore relationships among land, space, and people. In an experimental practice that cuts across the boundaries of visual art, performance, and music, Chacon breaks open musical traditions and activates spaces of performance where the histories of the lands the United States has encroached upon can be contemplated, questioned, and reimagined. In 2022, Raven Chacon became the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur "genius" fellowship in 2023.

The publication features newly commissioned texts including three long-form essays by Aruna D'Souza, Anthony Huberman, and Dylan Robinson/Patrick Nickleson; experimental short-form writing by Raven Chacon, Lou Cornum, Ingir B l Nango, Marja B l Nango, Eric-Paul Riege, nde Somby, and Sigbj rn Sk den; an introduction by Katya Garcia-Ant n and Stefanie Hessler; and a conclusion by Candice Hopkins.

Co-published by Swiss Institute and Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781915609380

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 March 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sternberg Press

Illustration: 53 COLOR ILLS. & 67 B&W ILLS.

Contributors:

  • Edited by Stefanie Hessler
  • Edited by Alison Coplan
  • Edited by Katya Garcia-Anton

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 206.0mm

Height: 257.0mm

Weight: 675g

Pages: 208

Collections

Arts & Culture Music & Musicians Non-Fiction

About the Author

Alison Coplan is Chief Curator of Swiss Institute, New York where she has organized over 50 exhibitions and projects of newly commissioned work with artists such as Alfatih, Latifa Echakhch, Karen Lamassonne, Jac Leirner, Shuang Li, Raol de Nieves, Sandra Mujinga, Vivian Suter, Jenna Sutela, TELFAR and Shen Xin. She is the editor of publications on the work of artists Anna-Sophie Berger, Irena Haiduk, Hans Haacke, Jill Mullead, Walter Pfeiffer, Cally Spooner and Jan Vorisek. Katya Garcia-Ant n is Director and chief curator, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum. Stefanie Hessler is Director of Swiss Institute, New York. Author of Prospecting Ocean (MIT Press and TBA21-Academy, 2019) and editor of over a dozen volumes including Frida Orupabo (Sternberg Press, 2022), Sex Ecologies (MIT Press, Kunsthall Trondheim and Seed Box, 2022), Tidalectics- Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science (MIT Press, 2018) and Life Itself (Moderna Museet and Koenig Books, 2016).

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