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general interest
Other Planes of There
Selected Writings
renée green
Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker.
Her exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen
throughout the world in museums, biennales,
and festivals. A selection of her books includes
Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Ongoing
Becomings, Between and Including, Shadows and
Signals, and, as editor, Negotiations in the Contact
Zone. Green’s essays and fiction have appeared in
magazines and journals such as Transition, October,
and Collapse. She is also a Professor at the MIT
Program in Art, Culture and Technology, School
of Architecture and Planning.
“More than a collection of an artist’s writings, Other
Planes of There is also a rigorous meditation on the
question of why artists are compelled to write. Along
the way, almost incidentally as it were, readers are
offered a self-conscious survey of the most advanced
thinking in the artistic practice of an artist who not
only dares to represent herself but also to put herself
forward, in that representation, as representative.”
—FRED MOTEN, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics
of the Black Radical Tradition and B Jenkins
“Renée Green’s far-reaching social and political interests
have led her into taking on the roles of artist-curatorarchivist-historian-exhibition
designer—and, perhaps
most unusual, adventuress-traveler. As indefatigable
explorer of circuits of ideas, objects, geographies,
histories, and categories, as challenger of historical
and cultural boundaries, she has accrued an extraordinary
body of work across at least four continents.
This remarkable selection of essays bears vivid witness
to the range of her ideas, the reach of her curiosity,
and her generosity and acuity of intellect.”—YVONNE
RAINER, avant-garde American dancer, choreographer,
and filmmaker
OTHER PLANES OF THERE
Selected Writings | RENÉE GREEN
For more than two decades, the artist
Renée Green has created an impressive
body of work in which language is an
essential element. Green is also a prolific
writer and a major voice in the international
art world. Other Planes of There
gathers for the first time a substantial
collection of the work she wrote between
1981 and 2010. The selected essays
initially appeared in publications in different
countries and languages, making their
availability in this volume a boon to those
wanting to follow Green’s artistic and
intellectual trajectory.
Charting this cosmopolitan artist’s thinking
through the decades, Other Planes of There brings essays, film scripts, reviews,
and polemics together with reflections on Green’s own artistic practice and
seminal artworks. It immerses the reader in three decades of contemporary art
showcasing the art and thought, the incisive critiques, and prescient observations
of one of our foremost artists and intellectuals. Sound, cinema, literature,
time-based media, and the relationship between art forms and other forms of
knowledge are just a few of the matters that Green takes up and thinks through.
Featuring a new visual essay created by the artist for this volume, Other Planes
of There is lavishly illustrated with 290 illustrations (with nearly 250 in color).
“The publication of Other Planes of There is a major intellectual event. Given Renée
Green’s stature and influence, both in the United States and abroad, her writing can
be surprisingly hard to track down. This volume will be an essential reference point
for anyone invested in critical practice of the last three decades and the shape of things
to come. We need this book.”—HUEY COPELAND, author of Bound to Appear: Art,
Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America
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