Falling for Gravity

Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art

Catherine James

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English

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
30 November 2017

Sculpture; Installation art; Performance art; Art techniques & principles; Films, movies & cinema

This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices – chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film – this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity and explores the similarities between their work and the popular cultural forms of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, and film.

Works by Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas, and Robert Smithson are mediated through ideas of Gnostic doubt, atomism, and new materialism. In other examples – by John Wood and Paul Harrison, Gordon Matta-Clark, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Trisha Brown, and Bas Jan Ader – mass and momentum, falling objects, and falling bodies are examined in relation to architecture, sculpture, and dance.

In performances, projects and events curated by Bruce Nauman, Santiago Sierra, and Catherine Yass, gravity is resisted in Sisyphean ordeals and death-defying stunts.

This account of contemporary art and performance, read through the invisible membrane of gravity, exposes new and distinctive approaches to agency reduction, authorial doubt, and redemptive failure.

By: Catherine James
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9783034317269
ISBN 10: 3034317263
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 November 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CONTENTS: On Shaky Ground – The Cosmic Cage – Heavy Stuff – Vertigo – Critical Mass

Catherine James is Lecturer in Academic Practice at University of the Arts London. Since completing her doctoral studies at the London Consortium in 2004, she served as Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art at Christie’s Education for many years and has contributed to a variety of conferences and journals related to her research on gravity in art and performance.