Eyal Weizman: Investigative Aesthetics Sonia BoyceVerso, 2021, softcover, 272 pages, 14 x 20. 9 cm Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors
Ruth Mountaingrove to Honey Lee Cottrell
and the power of art to reflect and shape who we are
depicts a model descending a staircase in front of a blow-up of page 159 from The Complete Poem (2011)
Available in French and English editions
ranging from the artworld glossies to underground fanzines
Contributions by Asef Bayat
who at the time was being held on terrorism charges in California
performance makers
the I who writes
and to imagine the possibilities of 'beautiful cosmos'
a life seen through a scrim
Michael Snow