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Let's make the water turn black

Let\'s make the water turn black Geoffrey Farmer - Let\'s make the water turn black
New monograph.
This publication offers a detailed insight in Geoffrey Farmer's complex installation “Let's Make the Water Turn Black,” and contextualizes it with his other script-based sculptural and kinetic works since the early 1990s, with contributions by Kathy Noble, Michael Turner, Aram Moshayedi, and Jan Verwoert, and a preface by the editors.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, in 2013.
The artistic practice of Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967 in Vancouver, where he lives and works) integrates forms of collecting and scholarship employed by cultural historians, and draws on a diverse repertoire. After extensive research, the artist builds collections that unite aspects of visual art, literature, music, politics, history, and sociology, and crystallize in sprawling theatrical installations.
In 2012, Geoffrey Farmer contributed his “Leaves of Grass” (2012) to Documenta 13; in 2011, he participated in the 12th Istanbul Biennial. His work has been on display in numerous solo shows, as well as at REDCAT, Los Angeles, and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (both 2011). Farmer also participated in the project “The Garden of Forking Paths” (2011), initiated by the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art.
Edited by Alex Farquharson, Heike Munder, Tobias Ostrander, Bettina Steinbrügge.
Texts by Alex Farquharson, Aram Moshayedi, Heike Munder, Kathy Noble, Tobias Ostrander, Bettina Steinbrügge, Michael Turner, Jan Verwoert.
 
published in October 2013
English edition
21,2 x 29,2 cm (softcover)
104 pages (84 color & 7 b/w ill.)
 
38.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-343-3
EAN : 9783037643433
 
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