Edited with text by Heike Munder. Text by Jimmie Durham, Richard W. Hill.
American-born artist, performer, poet, essayist and activist Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is one of the most influential voices of the contemporary art world, reflecting on encounters between the human being, technology and nature from different cultural perspectives.
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We live in a world of our own construction, and I want to look at that strangeness in the framework of material, says artist Jimmie Durham. Taking the form of notes from a series of lectures given in Venice, Durham explores our relationship to the world through "materials"--whether concrete substances such as wood, oak, petroleum or plastics, or abstract matter such as math, prime numbers or computing. Durham's notebook affirms the idea that "our knowledge of the world comes from the way we are constructed. We construct the world as we are constructed."
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Separation and Distinctions – on Turtles, Bosons and Theory
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited with text by Iain Chambers. Text by Bev Koski, Elisa Strinna, Hamza Badran, Joen Vedel, Jone Kvie, et al.
This volume is the outcome of a project initiated in 2021 by American artist Jimmie Durham (1940–2021). As his contribution to Documenta 15 in Kassel in 2022, he gathered a group of artists to form "a community on the road" and work in collaboration with him. Instead of focusing on any one theme, Durham encouraged the creation of wide-ranging works, thus highlighting how divergent artistic practices can intertwine and enter into conversation with each other. After Durham died in November 2021 during the preparation period for Documenta 15, the collective decided to make his absence an active part of its working process. The artists included in the collective are Bev Koski, Elisa Strinna, Hamza Badran, Iain Chambers, Joen Vedel, Jone Kvie, Maria Thereza Alves and Wilma Lukatsch.
Published by Walther König, Köln/Wiens Verlag/Edition Hans Jörg Mayer.
American artist Jimmie Durham's (born 1940) third book of poetry, Particle/Word Theory collects 38 poems written between 2014 and 2019, and 13 drawings. These poems, for Durham, express his belief that “art and science are the same thing.”
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited with text by Heike Munder. Text by Jimmie Durham, Richard W. Hill.
With an oeuvre spanning sculpture, drawing, collage, printmaking, painting, photography, video, performance and poetry, Durham became internationally famous in the 1980s for his sculptures made from materials such as wood, stone and the bones and skulls of animals, incorporating Native American elements into contemporary art.
This monograph, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, features a text by Durham, with contributions by curator and art historian of the Cree Indians Heritage Richard W. Hill, and Migros Museum Director Heike Munder.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Marius Babias. Text by Jimmie Durham.
Jimmie Durham (born 1940) began working as a sculptor in 1963, having also been politically active in the American civil rights movement. This artist's book assembles photographs of Durham against backdrops or with props featuring the word "Europe"--gas stations, banks, or holding a Europe chocolate bar.
Published by Hatje Cantz. We live in a world of our own construction, and I want to look at that strangeness in the framework of material, says artist Jimmie Durham. Taking the form of notes from a series of lectures given in Venice, Durham explores our relationship to the world through "materials"--whether concrete substances such as wood, oak, petroleum or plastics, or abstract matter such as math, prime numbers or computing. Durham's notebook affirms the idea that "our knowledge of the world comes from the way we are constructed. We construct the world as we are constructed."
Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is an artist, political activist, and writer living in Berlin and Rome. "Material" is his contribution to the Documenta 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts publishing project. "We live in a world of our own construction . . ., and I want to look at that strangeness in the framework of material," the artist Jimmie Durham says. Taking the form of notes from a series of lectures given in Venice, Durham explores our relationship to the world through materials, whether they are concrete substance such as wood, oak, petroleum, or plastics, or abstract, theoretical matters such as math, prime numbers, or computing. His notebook breathes life into the notion that "our knowledge of the world comes from the way we are constructed. We construct the world as we are constructed." By using wood and petroleum as his focal points, he leads us through the history of the construction of Venice, to a sculpture and its built-in mistake, and finally to how the tissue in fish is filled with so much plastic that a scientist friend no longer eats the animals.
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Anders Kreuger. Text by Bart De Baere, Guy Brett, Jimmie Durham, Richard William Hill, Anders Kreuger.
Born in Arkansas in 1940 and based in Europe since 1994, the Cherokee Jimmie Durham has spent his life alternating between the world of contemporary art and his work as an activist for the American Native Indian movement and United Nations representative of the International Indian Treaty Council. The politics of Durham’s art also take place on the broadest terms: “My work might be considered ‘interventionist’ because it works against the two foundations of the European tradition: Belief and Architecture,” he writes. “My work is against the connection of art to architecture, to the ‘statue,’ to monumentality.” Durham’s art freely blends writing and performance, sculpture and permanence and the personal and political into series of often anthropomorphic collage-like installations. With his notion of the artist as someone who rearranges the objects of society, Durham has developed a practice of “interruption” and estrangement as a tool against belief systems and the corrosive influence of colonialist culture, mixing plastic tubing with bone, printed words with video, and witty anecdote with devastating critique. A Matter of Life and Death and Singing is generously illustrated and researched and accompanies a comprehensive retrospective at the MuHKA, Antwerp, covering his full career, with newly commissioned essays and Durham’s own writings.
This book of photographs and drawings by American artist Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is described by the artist as a “road book.” Its story begins with the French founding of Detroit, explores the city's race riots in the twentieth century and then segues into a brief history of the American automobile industry. A DVD of the performance that inspired the book is included.
Published by Charta/Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Edited by Anna Daneri, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, and Roberto Pinto. Essays by Stefano Boeri, Jimmie Durham, Mario Fortunato and Cesare Pietroiusti.
Principally working with salvaged materials, Cherokee Jimmie Durham--poet, writer and visual artist--makes tongue-in-cheek assaults on the enduring colonial foundations which are firmly anchored to the base of Western culture. Durham, an activist in the American Indian movement in the 1970s, can sum up his artistic and political process in his will to “be so surgically specific it becomes universal.” This small-format, compact publication presents more than 100 images of Durham's installations, which are enhanced by a series of essays by critics and essayists on the themes surrounding his work.
PUBLISHER Charta/Fondazione Antonio Ratti
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 58 color / 61 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/15/2005 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 123
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9788881584925TRADE List Price: $37.95 CAD $45.00
Jimmie Durham: Particle/Word Theory
Jimmie Durham: God's Children, God's Poems
Jimmie Durham: In Europe
Jimmie Durham: Material
Jimmie Durham: A Matter of Life and Death and Singing
Jimmie Durham: Amoxohtli
Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham: Between The Furniture And The Building