Jimmie Durham

Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is a Cherokee poet, sculptor, essayist and a visual artist who has been making and exhibiting work since 1963. The cultural and political uses of material, objects and space have been central to his practice, and his career has deftly bridged the space between art and activism. His collected poems, Columbus Day, was published by West End Press in 1983. Beautifully produced, Poems That Do Not Go Together is the second part of his collected poems, containing 41 pieces written between 1966 and 2012. Full of puns, jokes, sad stories, political outrage and bitter reflections on the plight of Natives, it elucidates the animating energies behind Durham's half-century-long career with clarity and volume.

Poems that Do Not Go Together

Laura Mulvey

Dirk Snauwaert

Mark Alice Durant

Kate Nesin

An updated edition of the first - and still most authoritative - book on the legendary American iconoclast Twenty years ago, Phaidon published what has become the definitive study of Arkansas-born Jimmie Durham's career. This highly anticipated new edition brings this important book up to date, tracing his remarkable life from his experiences in the US, Mexico, and Europe - including his early involvement with the American Indian Movement - to his most recent output. It presents a full assessment of his sculptures, performances, wall-based collages, and ersatz ethnographic displays, that deliver ironic assaults on the colonizing procedures of Western culture.

Revised and Expanded Edition

Writings on Art and Cultural Politics

A Certain Lack of Coherence

Dan Cameron

Tiré du site de Book Works: "Jimmie Durham's "My Book, The East London Coelacanth, Sometimes Called, Troubled Waters ; The Story of British Sea-Power" is animated by a distinctive voice - amused, obstinate and exciting our curiosity - that negotiates our and its own worries about what a book ought to contain, in what order and for how long. In this book Durham looks at Englishness - posing the question "who are you?" to the (presumed English) reader. Durham's investigation takes on board the Angles, angling, a fossil fish, East Anglia, and East London, though this is not simply the place where the books itself was published but a town in South Africa, near which a coelacanth was caught in the 1950s. Durham writes that "if I could catch an East London Coelacanth in East London, England, I might somehow be helping resolve some of the residual problems of Anglish Imperialism." Photographs show Durham in various parts of the world, fishing or near water, and at different ages, and some other people with fish. These are accompanied with Durham's conversation-like texts combining to make a book that demands to be read and read again to unravel its riddle."

The Story of British Sea-power, Begins with a Chapter Titled

My Book, the East London Coelacanth, Sometimes Called, Troubled Waters

Rafael Schacter

Lukas Feireiss

Alain Bieber

Matthew Murphy

Jennifer Thatcher

Hrag Vartanian

On American artist Brad Downey's public works blending everyday life and art This book surveys the work of Berlin-based American artist Brad Downey (born 1980) in sculpture, architecture, performance, installation, film, drawing, collage and activism. In his often humorous interventions, Downey questions the structure of cities and obscures the boundaries between art and everyday life.

Process, Project, Object

Brad Downey. Slapstick Formalism

Jimmie Durham

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