Camel Collective
Subtitle: la distancia entre Pontresina y Zermatt es la misma que la de Zermatt a Pontresina = the distance from Pontresina to Zermatt is the same as the distance from Zermatt to Pontresina
By: textos, Alejandra Labastida [and six others] ; edición, Ekaterina Álvarez Romero ; coordinación editorial, Ana Xanic López
Contributors: Herrera-Prats, Carla, 1973-; Graves, Anthony, 1965-; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Contemporáneo de Arte
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: MUAC -- 052; Folio MUAC -- 52.
Publisher: MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art); Video art; Labor in art; In art; Camel Collective (Group of artists)
Other titles: Distancia entre Pontresina y Zermatt es la misma que la de Zermatt a Pontresina; Distance from Pontresina to Zermatt is the same as the distance from Zermatt to Pontresina; Camel Collective.; Camel Collective. English.
Description: Anthony Graves and Carla Herrera-Prats have worked together as Camel Collective since 2010. Graves & Herrera-Pratsœ artworks are motivated by research into marginal histories and critical pedagogies. The two-channel video installation by Camel Collective generates a field of simultaneity between the labor of the gavira artists, who reconstruct the sound landscapes of two walks, and that of two actors reading a selection of letters. Gavira is the name given in Mexico to incidental sound effects, in honor of the great sound designer Gonzalo Gavira. "Camel Collective has taken the last letters exchanged between the German philosophers Herbert Marcuse and Theodor W. Adorno as the occasion to further develop the practice of staging the material aspect of intellectual labor, and revealing forms of labor hidden from view in most forms of cultural production. The letters debate the revolutionary potentials of the student movements of 1969 in the US and Germany. In this work, the artists investigate the meaning of embodying or "touching" theory, and ask about the role the sensous has to play the in the gap between text and world, or in other words, between theory and practice."-Verso Cover.
Notes: "Published on occasion of the exhibition Camel Collective. The Distance from Pontresina to Zermatt Is the Same As the Distance from Zermatt to Pontresina (February 11st to July 23rd, 2017) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City."--Facing Title Page.

Limited ed. of 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: El principio de identidad de la distancia o la distancia más corta entre dos puntos es un paso boomy = The law of identity of distance, or the shortest distance between two points is a boomy pass / Alejandra Labastida; title: Correspondencia = Correspondence / Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Richard Lehun, Esther Leslie, Ilán Semo, Jaime Soler Frost; title: Semblanza = Biographical Sketch; title: Catálogo = Catalogue.