Other Planes of There: Selected Writings

Synopsis

For More Than Two Decades Artist Renée Green Has Created An Impressive Body Of Work In Which Language Is An Essential Element. A Prolific Writer And A Major Cosmopolitan Voice In The International Art World, Other Planes Of There Gathers For The First Time Green's Writings From 1981 To 2010, Bringing Together Essays, Film Scripts, Reviews, And Polemics With Reflections In Her Own Artistic Practice And Seminal Artworks. Other Planes, Different Phases, My Geometry, Times, Movements: Becomings Ongoing -- Remarks On The Writings Of Renée Green / Gloria Sutton -- Sites Of Criticism: A Symposium. Practices: The Problem Of Division Of Cultural Labor. Statement -- Discourse On Afro-american Art: The Twenties -- I Won't Play Other To Your Same -- What's Painting Got To Do With It?: Representing Gender And Sexuality In The Age Of Post-mechanical Reproduction -- From Camino Road -- Open Letter #1: On Influence -- Open Letter #2: Another Attempt -- Collectors, Creators, And Shoppers -- Peripatetic At Home -- Free Agent Media/fam -- Situationist Text -- Introductory Notes Of A Reader And A Contemporary Moment -- Trading On The Margin -- Democracy In Question -- Notes From A User: L'informe -- Spike Lee's Mix: Calculated Risks And Assorted Reckonings -- Compared To What? -- Notes On Humanist And Ecological Republic And Lac Mantasoa -- Other Planes Of There --^ Archives, Documents?: Forms Of Creation, Activation, And Use -- On Kawara's Solutions To Living -- Give Me Body: Freaky Fun, Biopolitics, And Contact Zones -- Dropping Science: Art And Technology Revisited 2.0 -- Site-specificity Unbound: Considering Participatory Mobility -- Slippages -- Affection Afflictions: My Alien/my Self, Or More Reading At Work -- Survival: Ruminations On Archival Lacunae -- Beyond -- Place -- Sites Of Genealogy -- Vistavision: Landscape Of Desire -- Tracing Lusitania: Excerpts From An Imagined Prototype -- Secret, Part 1. Practiced Places -- Secret, Part 2. Scenes From A Group Show: Project Unité -- Inventory Of Clues -- Eighteen Aphoristic Statements -- Collecting Well Is The Best Revenge -- The Digital Import/export Funk Office -- Wavelinks Transmitted Amidst Dangerous Crossings: Reflections In 2006 -- Standardized Octagonal Units For Imagined And Existing Systems -- Sound Forest Folly: Intermediary Units Of A Variable Number -- Why Systems? --^ Relay -- Index (from Oblivion): Paradoxes And Climates. Thought Experiments: Warm-up Notes -- Climates And Paradoxes -- Why Reply? -- Now It Seems Like A Dream -- Imagine This Wherever And Whoever You Are -- Come Closer: Prelude To Endless Dreams And Water Between -- Come Closer -- Endless Dreams And Water Between. Renée Green ; Introductory Essay By Gloria Sutton. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.