Nina Katchadourian
Subtitle: curiouser
By: edited by Veronica Roberts ; with essays by Jeffrey Kastner, Veronica Roberts ; and an interview by Stuart Horodner ; with contributions by Regine Basha [and 15 others]
Contributors: Blanton Museum of Art
Publisher: Blanton Museum of Art, UT-Austin
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781477311516
Subjects: Women artists; Artistic Photography
Description: "Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser accompanies the Blanton Museum's mid-career survey of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian, organized by Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Veronica Roberts. The book reveals the artist's humor, ingenuity, and ability to unearth the creative potential that "lurks within the mundane," to use her words. The diverse range of art it highlights includes Mended Spiderwebs, a series of photographs documenting the artist's attempts to weave red string into dilapidated spiderwebs, and Under Pressure, a recent video that Katchadourian took of herself lip-synching to David Bowie and Freddy Mercury's duet using her mobile phone in the cramped quarters of an airplane lavatory. We learn about art projects she has made with the assistance not only of arachnids and rock stars, but also United Nations translators, birdcall experts, librarians, sports announcers, parking lot attendants, an accent elimination coach, and even her own parents. This exhibition catalogue marks the first significant publication on Katchadourian's work and features essays by Jeffrey Kastner and Veronica Roberts, as well as an interview between the artist and Stuart Horodner. In addition, it includes Katchadourian's accounts of fourteen individual works paired with creative essays from a multidisciplinary team of contributors including artist Ann Hamilton, animal behavior expert Laurel Braitman, and sound art scholar Christoph Cox. Through these diverse perspectives, readers are introduced to Katchadourian's unbridled curiosity and puckish wit"--
Notes: "This catalogue was published on the occasion of  the exhibition Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser, at the Blanton Museum of Art , March 12-June 11, 2017. "--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.