ICA - Institute for Contemporary Art @VCU

Features Martin Bonadeo. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, July-Sept., 2009

Tania Bruguera is an interdisciplinary artist who explores exile and survival.

Features Porpentine Charity Heartscape. Texts and images representing the Biennial participants, artists who work in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, film, and performance, as well as essays by the two curators and contributions by the advisors.

Cassils is a performance artist and body builder who uses their own body in a sculptural fashion, thereby interrogating feminism, body art, and gay male aesthetics.

Features CHIM↑POM. Documenting and describing the emerging "performative democracy," the first new art form of the twenty-first century.

The Beaded Prayers Project is an ongoing collaborative artwork initiated and directed by fiber artist, Sonya Clark. To date, over 5000 people ages 6 to 90 of diverse backgrounds from 35 countries have participated in the traveling exhibit by creating and contributing the beaded packets

The Ignatz Award winner for Outstanding Graphic Novel, Gaylord Phoenix follows the danger-fraught journeys of the titular creature.

Features Hope Ginsberg. This book features works touching on certain facets of wonder, including themes of the perceptual/visionary, technological/scientific, and time/cosmos.

Collects photos, band posters, ephemera and interviews relating to GWAR's albums, comics and videos.
Available at Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives (On-Site Use Only)

Features Titus Kaphar. Contemporary artists respond to Romare Bearden on the occassion of the centennial of his birth.

Features Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

Geof Oppenheimer (born 1973) employs a variety of media, including video and photography, to consider how value--economic, political and social--is produced.

In this work, Senatore explores art’s potential to seek dynamic interaction, and rather than relegating the audience to the passive role of spectators, foster the active involvement of participants.

Features Deb Sokolow. Vitamin D2 offers a critical account of the recent evolution and role of drawing in the art world, and introduces to the world prominent trends, methods and artists in the field.

This monograph focuses on Strachan's recent sculpture of white neon tubing, simulating a stop-action photograph of imploding or exploding words to either affirm or refute its statement about identity.

Features Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Looks at the work of four artists who use color and shape to represent a metaphorical body.

Lee Mingwei's simple yet elegant installations provide a stage for interpersonal exchange around ordinary human events or activities -- admiring an object, making conversation, or writing a letter to a friend or family member.

Pica explores metaphor, communication and civic participation through drawings, sculptures, large-scale photographic prints, slide projections, live performances and installations. Using simple materials such as photocopies, lightbulbs, drinking glasses, beer bottles, bunting and cardboard, Pica creates work that is both formally beautiful and conceptually rigorous.

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Oct. 26-Dec. 30, 2007. Includes an interview with the artist by Natalie Bray.

"Examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first to treat it entirely within a broad international framework."

What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core.

Thinking Contemporary Curating reimagines ideas of cooperative curation, the historicization of exhibition-making, and issues of spectatorship.

This volume considers artists exploring utopia as subject matter and artists actively aspiring towards utopian ideals.

Italian philosopher Antonio Negri has declared that "Every kind of change belongs to a form of community art," extending the rubric of art to propose a commons of all those striving to effect change in social, economic, technological and ecological arenas.

The use of aesthetics to affect social dynamics, often via works produced by collectives or out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care.

In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power? What does this mean for those dedicated to socially engaged art and activism?

Historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice."
(also in print: N6494.I57 B57 2012)

A thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take. .