URBAN IMAGES

Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture

Synne Bull and Marit Paasche

A collection of 11 new essays by internationally renowned scholars and artists navigating the vast inter-disciplinary territory defined by fine art, architecture and the moving image. One of the fundamental events of modernity was the conquest of the world as picture, a process in which cinema was essential. Cinema was the single medium capable of capturing what Alexander Kluge describes as the “the impossible moment”: a moment we couldn’t imagine beforehand, and which cannot be repeated later. Cities, bridges, ideas, gestures, skyscrapers, literature and art are all affected. The collection was initiated during the two-day symposium Urban Images in September 2010, hosted by Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Featured essays by Giuliana Bruno, Bull.Miletic, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Ed Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Kathrin Meyer, Marit Paasche, and Judy Radul.

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PETRA VALDIMARSDÓTTIR

Come and Go

This heartbreaking book is part of an award-winning project that depicts the reality of the death penalty. The Berlin-based artist/graphic designer, Petra Valdimarsdóttir, created a graphic wall of several hundred envelopes, each one marked with the last word uttered by a prisoner before execution at one Texas prison. Inside the envelope is personal information on the prisoner, including name, age, weight, mug shot, place and details of the murder for which they are being executed. This graphically compelling book uses one page for each prisoner, “imprisoning” his or her last sentence within blocks of black ink. Winner of the Hendrik Valk Price in 2010, this powerful project honors the murder victims at the same time as it makes the humanity of the murderers evident.

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