I am not here : premonitions of a nomadic art / Sebastián Roitter Pavez ; [traducción de Johanna Hardwick, Andrés Kusminsky]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roitter Pavez, Sebastián, artist, author.

Contributor:

Hardwick, Johanna, translator.

Kusminsky, Andrés, translator.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Ya no estoy aquí. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Roitter Pavez, Sebastián.

Totemism in art.

Artists' books--Specimens.

Artists' books.

Physical Description:

98 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm.

Edition:

Limited edition.

Other Title:

Premonitions of a nomadic art

Ya no estoy aquí

Place of Publication:

Buenos Aires : Bucle Editorial, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"I am not here. Premonitions of nomadic artʺ is a visual and written essay on contemporary art in public spaces that recovers an archaic and ritual form, the totem, in the light of the studies of W. E. Fennelman, a forgotten English anthropologist who became an art critic by accident. Travelling through his notebooks, the paths diverge and the itinerary becomes ever more unlikely. New characters raise their own totems, outlandish subjects, exiled from knowledge, bandits, tomb raiders, maritime plagues, a spectre to tourists. Like excavators or archivists, we delve into the figures that torment civilization, releasing pieces of barbarity, the material for constructing other worlds

Contents:

Chapter I. Emergence

Untimely meditations

Preface

ManifestoTótems, definitions

Fennelman's totem

A type of totem

The life of objects

Presentations

Chapter II. Egypt

The west on holiday

The greatest palimpsest luxor and Rimbaud

I am not here

Conserving for the future

Phileae

Phileae II

Dendur

The pucará at tilcara

Chapter III. The value of ruins

Atomism vs. platonic metaphysics

Uncertainty for breathing

Ruinenwert

Within culture's warm embrace

The guardians

A race for the past a sensible argument

The monster in the tupperware

An ontology of nostalgia

Credits and acknowledgements

Bonus material: Villa Urquiza's appendix, maps, photos, postcards.

Notes:

Includes a brochure with ten cards, and a poster, inserted.

Issued in multi-ring binder.

Some pages are smaller than the other pages.

Limited and numbered edition of 100.

Print run.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789878615127

987861512X

OCLC:

1413365807