Floodplain
By: James Geurts
Contributors: Thornton, Sue; Kristensen, Annika, writer of added commentary; Rule, Dan, editor; Mylecharane, Paul, book designer
Edition: First edition.
Series: Perimeter editions -- 031; Perimeter editions -- 31.
Publisher: Perimeter Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780648262800
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Floodplains; Pictorial works; History; Site-specific art; Australian Art; Landscape photography; Environmental aspects
Description: "Archival photographs of the Birrarung (Yarra River) sourced from State Library Victoria, Museums Victoria and Melbourne Water collections. Photographs of Yarra River sites and neon sculptural works at historic points of intervention. Essay. Site-specific works on paper at points of river intervention, processed though reconfigured scanner as site actions. Floodplain, the new book by Melbourne-based artist James Geurts, not only traces the photographic history of Melbourne's iconic river - its floods, infrastructure and geographical significance - but expands on the cultural and environmental implications of our acts of intervention. Published to coincide with Geurts' exhibition of the same title at the National Gallery of Victoria, Floodplain forms a wider treatise about the mythology of the flood and the fallacies of environmental colonialism." -Publisher's website.
Notes: First edition of 600.

Project Coordinator: Sue Thornton ; Editor: Dan Rule ;  Design: Paul Mylecharane, Public Office ; Text: Annika Kristensen ; Editorial Assistance: Justine Ellis and Nadiah Abdulrahim.

"This publication was made possible with the support of Melbourne Water ... [and] is supported by Australia Council for the Arts, National Gallery of Victoria, Georges Mora Foundation, State Library Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent, Wurundjeri Land Council, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Scienceworks Museums Victoria, Upper Yarra Arts Centre, Parks Victoria, the Yarra River Keeper Association and the Port of Melbourne." -pages 206-207.

"Employing extensive field research and various conceptual and geographic methodologies, James Geurts produces site and time-specific projects including the ongoing Embassy for Water in 2011, which helped win the bid for the 2018 European Capital for Culture in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Geurts has exhibited his projects in galleries including White Cube, London; GEMAK, Den Haag Netherlands; Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Israel; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; La Chambre Blanche, Quebec; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art." -Publisher's website.

Cold glue perfect bind with flaps.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, 16 March - 31 August 2018

Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, 16-18 March 2018
Table of contents: title: Archive -- (Archival photographs of the Birrarung (Yarra River) sourced from State Library Victoria, Museums Victoria and Melbourne Water collections. Intervention, infrastructure and flood.) -- (5-111) -- (b); title: Floodplain Series: Site Works -- (Photographs of Yarra River sites at historic points of intervention. Sites appear in order from the source of the Birrarung (Yarra River) to its mouth : Upper Yarra Dam; Aqueduct Sluice; Warburton Hall; Yarra Glen Trestle Bridge; Pound Bend; Heide Museum of Modern Art; Dights Falls; c3 Contemporary Art Space; Herring Island; NGV Australia; Queens Bridge; Scienceworks; Birrarung (Yarra River) Mouth) -- (113-142); title: Waiting for the Flood  -- Annika Kristensen -- (143-150) -- (c); title: From Source to Mouth: Birrarung (Yarra River)-- (Site-specific works on paper, at points of river intervention. Processed through reconfigured scanner as site actions.)-- (151-203)-- Acknowledgements-- (206-207)-- Colophon-- (208).