Edited by Beatrix Ruf, Julia Stoschek, Thomas D. Trummer. Text by Ed Atkins, Joe Luna, Beatrix Ruf.
This first major publication on British artist Ed Atkins (born 1982) features a detailed selection of his installations and video works. With powerful surround sound, Atkins' digital compositions use saturated colors and precise editing rhythms, exhibiting archival material as well as computer-generated animations.
Featured image, "A thousand centuries of death" (2010), HD video with sound is reproduced from Ed Atkins.
Featured image, a still from Cur, Ed Atkins' 2010 HD video with sound, is reproduced from JRP|Ringier's new monograph on the artist. The following text runs alongside the image:
"EXT. A COPSE OF BLACK MAPLE, CANADA, NOON, CONTINUOUS.
Dark sap SPURTS out of a metal flue jutting out of a black maple tree. Too thick to SOUND. Slowing to a HEAVY trickle, then a dribble, then a steady rhythm of drips. Caught by a battered bucket beneath. Someone whistling OFF-SCREEN. Something tuneless, hackneyed. Through teeth, no-doubt broken. Whisky hanging stale and LEADEN on the breath. An ELDERLY tremolo. A KICK drum forces out another SPOUT of sap, landing with a TAP of HI-HAT in the bucket. The spigot like a CATHETER. Sap like PISS from a desperate, DEHYDRATED bladder. Tart, not sweet. Whistling transforms into HUMMING, a voice: UN AMOUR SI GRAND QU’IL NIE SON OBJET by Ghédalia Tazartès. An incredible DISLODGING. A PARCHED throat CREAKING like the concertina joint in a drinking straw. Again, the scene DRYS UP. This for at least a MILLION fucking YEARS, till sap becomes amber." continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 68 color / 2 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $47.5 ISBN: 9783037643594 PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier AVAILABLE: 8/31/2014 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD Excl FR DE AU CH
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Beatrix Ruf, Julia Stoschek, Thomas D. Trummer. Text by Ed Atkins, Joe Luna, Beatrix Ruf.
This first major publication on British artist Ed Atkins (born 1982) features a detailed selection of his installations and video works. With powerful surround sound, Atkins' digital compositions use saturated colors and precise editing rhythms, exhibiting archival material as well as computer-generated animations.
