Pipilotti Rist
Subtitle: Pixel Forest
By: edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton
Contributors: Gioni, Massimiliano, editor; Norton, Margot, editor; New Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780714872766
Subjects: Sex in art; Multimedia (Art); Exhibitions; Interviews; Feminism in art; Video art; Artists; Installations (Art); Femininity in art
Other titles: Pixel Forest
Description: "The most comprehensive monograph to date on the groundbreaking Swiss artist and international art star, Pipilotti Rist. A pioneer of experimental video art, Pipilotti Rist is celebrated for her expansive installations that bridge the spaces between fine art and popular culture, the natural world and the technological sublime. Through vivid colors, audaciously sensuous imagery, and playful sexuality, Rist's art--which ranges from single-channel videos to multilayered environments--absorbs viewers in a hyperfeminine aesthetic interlaced with deeper themes of pain, innocence, and transformation. This sumptuously illustrated book features hundreds of colorful images and covers the full breadth and depth of Rist's career to date, from her early video works of the 1980s to an installation she created specifically for her major survey exhibition at the New Museum, New York (October 2016 - January 2017). Essays by leading voices from the cultural world-and an interview with the artist by New Museum Edlis Neeson Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni-offer new perspectives on Rist's oeuvre, contextualizing her work within the history of contemporary and video art, and revealing connections between her art and the evolution of modern technologies."
Notes: "This book has been published on the occasion of the New Museum exhibition "Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest" October 26, 2016-January 8, 2017"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Director's Foreword  -- Lisa Phillips; title: A Bee Flew in the Window...  -- Juliana Engberg; title: Body Electric: An Interview with Pipilotti Rist  -- Massimiliano Gioni; title: The Plasmatic Gesamtkunstwerk  -- Bice Curiger; title: Reception Theory: Difficulty, Dropouts, and Interference in the Moving Images of Pipilotti Rist  -- Gloria Sutton; title: Flying Carpets  -- Joan Jonas; title: Blood-Driven Cameras  -- Margot Norton; title: List of Works --; title: Artist's Biography.