Kapwani Kiwanga : off-grid / edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Madeline Weisburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiwanga, Kapwani, 1978- artist, interviewee.

Contributor:

Gioni, Massimiliano, curator, editor, interviewer.

Weisburg, Madeline, curator, editor, interviewer.

Brown, Simone, interviewee.

New Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kiwanga, Kapwani, 1978---Exhibitions.

Kiwanga, Kapwani.

Kiwanga, Kapwani, 1978---Interviews.

Sculpture--21st century--Exhibitions.

Sculpture.

Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Women artists, Black--21st century--Exhibitions.

Women artists, Black.

Kiwanga, Kapwani, 1978-.

Art.

Genre:

Interviews

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Kiwanga

Off-grid

Place of Publication:

New York : New Museum, [2022]

Summary:

"Over the past decade, Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga's ethereal environments bring attention to the backstories of systems of authority and their embodied effects. Accompanying the exhibition at the New Museum, this catalog provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga's work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as 'lantern laws'--ordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white person--her new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency through the use of large-scale curtains and mirrored surfaces, playing with natural light and darkness."-- Summary from book distributor's website.

Over the past decade, Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga?s ethereal environments bring attention to the backstories of systems of authority and their embodied effects.00Accompanying the exhibition at the New Museum, this catalog provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga's work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as ?lantern laws??ordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white person?her new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency through the use of large-scale curtains and mirrored surfaces, playing with natural light and darkness.00Exhibition: New Museum, New York, USA (30.06. - 09.10.2022).

Contents:

Cross currents : Kapwani Kiwanga in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni

Escape velocity / Glenn Adamson

Weaving fabrics / Yesomi Umolu

Sodade / Rashid Johnson

Surveillance studies : Simone Brown in conversation with Madeline Weisburg

A violent illumination (notes) / Kathleen Ritter.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the New Museum, New York, June 30-October 16, 2022.

Includes interviews with artist and curators.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Exhibited "Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid" June 30-October 16, 2022 at the New Museum, New York.

ISBN:

9780915557998

0915557991

OCLC:

1344293908