Mathias Poledna
Subtitle: Western recording.
Contributors: Michalka, Matthias.; Janssen, Renske.; Schafhausen, Nicolaus, 1965-; Alberro, Alexander.; Alter, Nora M., 1962-; Witte de With, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst.; Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, Foundation Ludwig Vienna; Witte de With Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Vienna; Rotterdam
Language: mul
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789073362673
Subjects: Poledna, Mathias -- Exhibitions; Musicians in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Western recording.
Description: Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptualist Mathias Poledna deconstructs and reconstructs pop, political and media history. The film "Western Recording" (2003, 11 min.) takes as its starting point the recording of a vocal track on the 1969 song "City Life" by the singer-composer Harry Nilsson.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibitions Mathias Poledna, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, April 30 - June 11, 2006, organized by Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen, and: Mathias Poledna: Western recording, Museum of Modern Art, Foundation Ludwig Vienna, June 6 - August 24, 2003, organized by Matthias Michalka."

Translations: Bookmakers Vertalersteam (English-Dutch / German Dutch), James Gussen (German-English), Tom Holert, Christian Höller (English-German).

Text in German, English and Dutch.
Table of contents: title: Foreword = Vorwort = Voorwoord, Nicolaus Schafhausen; title: Introduction = Einführung = Inleiding / Matthias Michalka; title: Mathias Poledna's Western Recording and the dialectics of discontinuity = Mathias Polednas Western Recording und die Dialektik der Diskontinuität = Mathias Poledna's Western Recording en de Dialectiek van de Discontinuïteit / Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter; title: Studio time / Tom Holert.