{"product_id":"raven-chacon-a-worms-eye-view-from-a-birds-beak-9781915609380","title":"Raven Chacon: A Worm's Eye View from a Bird's Beak","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first ever monograph on the groundbreaking work of artist and composer Raven Chacon.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon's scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-color documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and performances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaven Chacon is a composer and artist creating musical experiences that explore relationships among land, space, and people. In an experimental practice that cuts across the boundaries of visual art, performance, and music, Chacon breaks open musical traditions and activates spaces of performance where the histories of the lands the United States has encroached upon can be contemplated, questioned, and reimagined. In 2022, Raven Chacon became the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur \"genius\" fellowship in 2023. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe publication features newly commissioned texts including three long-form essays by Aruna D'Souza, Anthony Huberman, and Dylan Robinson\/Patrick Nickleson; experimental short-form writing by Raven Chacon, Lou Cornum, Ingir Bål Nango, Marja Bål Nango, Eric-Paul Riege, Ánde Somby, and Sigbj rn Skåden; an introduction by Katya García-Antón and Stefanie Hessler; and a conclusion by Candice Hopkins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCo-published by Swiss Institute and Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Coplan is Chief Curator of Swiss Institute, New York where she has organized over 50 exhibitions and projects of newly commissioned work with artists such as Alfatih, Latifa Echakhch, Karen Lamassonne, Jac Leirner, Shuang Li, Ra?l de Nieves, Sandra Mujinga, Vivian Suter, Jenna Sutela, TELFAR and Shen Xin. She is the editor of publications on the work of artists Anna-Sophie Berger, Irena Haiduk, Hans Haacke, Jill Mullead, Walter Pfeiffer, Cally Spooner and Jan Vorisek. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatya Garc?a-Ant?n is Director and chief curator, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStefanie Hessler is Director of Swiss Institute, New York. Author of \u003ci\u003eProspecting Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press and TBA21-Academy, 2019) and editor of over a dozen volumes including \u003ci\u003eFrida Orupabo\u003c\/i\u003e (Sternberg Press, 2022), \u003ci\u003eSex Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, Kunsthall Trondheim and \u003ci\u003eSeed Box\u003c\/i\u003e, 2022), \u003ci\u003eTidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eLife Itself\u003c\/i\u003e (Moderna Museet and Koenig Books, 2016).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892413239570,"sku":"9781915609380","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_44509b11-73bb-42ed-9f3a-6cd44b78ef1c.jpg?v=1738189923","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/raven-chacon-a-worms-eye-view-from-a-birds-beak-9781915609380","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}