Soundwalk is an international sound collective founded in the early 2000s by Stephan Crasneanscki and based in New York City. In the summer of 2011, the collective retraced Medea's mythical journey along the coast of the Black Sea, collecting fragme…
In 2012, Christian Marclay (born 1955) was invited to participate in Mixed Bathing World, an international contemporary arts festival in the port town of Beppu, Japan. Along the length of the pier jutting out into Beppu's harbor, Marclay installed 1…
This script by British director Peter Greenaway (born 1942) follows Russian director Eisenstein to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1930, where he worked for ten days on a never-completed film called "Que Viva Mexico."
This novel is the final publication of the Chilean filmmaker and author Raul Ruiz (1941-2011), who died last year, and who put the finishing touches to this book a few days before his death. Here, Ruiz narrates his life not as himself, but as a ghos…
This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Greaud (born 1979), performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, "Crossfading" guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes…
Since the 1950s, designer Luigi Colani has changed the face of our culture with his designs for automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, furniture, bathroom appliances, cameras and other electronic equipment, computers, and jewelry. Working in Europe, th…
The conditions of development of British Black Art are tied up with a social and cultural history of Europe, especially the anti-immigration policies of Margaret Thatcher and their consequences, such as the Brixton riots of the early 1980s. British…
Inspired by Shakespeare's famous words, "If music be the food of love, play on," "The Food of Love," by British director Peter Greenaway (born 1942), is a story of amorous obsession set in Venice and London.
