Sam Durant: The Meeting House / Build Therefore Your Own World

Sam Durant: The Meeting House / Build Therefore Your Own WorldSam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages social, political, and cultural issues. His work has been widely exhibited in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas. It has been included in the Panam, Sydney, Venice, and Whitney Biennials and can be found in many public collections including MOMA, New York, Project Row Houses, Houston and Tate Modern, London. Based in Los Angeles, Durant teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. Durants The

With photographs by John Bentham

his work has been seen as partially a dialogue with certain concerns of Marcel Duchamp)

ISBN: 978-2-940672-11-0

aesthetic departure point that resides in his repeated return to pop culture and the omnipresent influence exuded by the global mainstream

in the context of unprecedented riots and violence in the French banlieues against social inequality

The act of re-installing these deconstructed materials is a response to the agency of women’s work in Africa and an acknowledgment of the role that this artistic labor plays in the climate ecosystem

This catalog documents the installation of Mark Grotjahn’s 50 Kitchens as it was seen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

plus a new essay by Joan Kee

I Can’t Dance (1996)

he devoted himself to making sculptures that populated his property near Birmingham

Extending beyond the vertical edges

Ha’s pivotal role in postwar Korean art has been extensively documented