Pipilotti Rist: Show a Leg - Softcover

McKee, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899551263 ISBN 13: 9781899551262

Publisher: Tramway, 1999

Synopsis

Born in Switzerland in 1962, Rist is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today. Her videos and installations are widely regarded as being amongst some of the most important and influential work being produced. She has been described as 'an icon of the multi-media world.' Her work engages with areas such as contemporary music, pop video, computer graphics and film, and she frequently employs the devices and techniques associated with music video to communicate freely poetical, philosophical and political content. Transposing elements of the different environments of the discotheque and the home, Show A Leg not only focuses upon the contexts of human social interaction, but addresses a number of questions concerning the expressivity of the body in everyday life: What are the triggers of human feelings? How are these feelings expressed in the living body? How can we capture these processes in images and sound to overcome our loneliness? This catalogue, published as a record of Rist's exhibition at Tramway in 1991, includes text by Francis McKee and is illustrated in colour.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tramway
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899551263
• ISBN 13: 9781899551262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62