Jennifer Thatcher

Yu-Chen Wang

Yu-Chen Wang's quasi-fictional book, The Song of the Machines features stories about the artist's life and her practice. Reality and fiction are blurred through the display of new work, documentation, critical texts and creative writing. Her work explores the notion of representation, distortion and transformation, and the transitional space between them. Using a mixture of drawings, objects, installation, performance and film, the artist constructs visual narratives to explore the concept of machines and energy, and art's potential in dreaming of and hoping for a better future. This limited edition book is a visually rich and captivating narrative that explores the potential of assemblage and reinvention of art as bookwork. Consisting of 6 chapters, each taking a different perspective of the artist's work, there are critical pieces of writing by key authors and critics such as Nicolas de Oliveira and Jennifer Thatcher.

The Song of the Machines

Rafael Schacter

Lukas Feireiss

Alain Bieber

Jimmie Durham

Matthew Murphy

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

Jennifer Thatcher

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