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Carey Young
Published in conjunction with Carey Young's first solo exhibition in Switzerland, curated by Raphael Gygax, this monograph offers an overview on her works from 2003 to today. It includes contributions by the artist, Martha Buskirk, Raphael Gygax, and Tirdad Zolghadr.Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Legal Fiction” by Carey Young at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, from August to November 2013.
Since the late 1990s, Carey Young (born 1970) has investigated the growing influence of international corporations on the individual in works that span a variety of media including video, performance, text, and installation, and which draw on the tradition of Conceptual art. Notably, she studies how language is transformed by corporate culture, or how contractual structures and their linguistic markers progressively pervade and reshape all domains of life. Like a double agent, she immerses herself in the business or legal worlds, donning the appropriate attire and enacting recommended scenarios in order to examine and question the reach of each institution's power, and its ability to shape our contemporary reality.
les presses du réel
2013
Softcover
20 x 27 cm
184 pages
£45
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Carey Young
Published in conjunction with Carey Young's first solo exhibition in Switzerland, curated by Raphael Gygax, this monograph offers an overview on her works from 2003 to today. It includes contributions by the artist, Martha Buskirk, Raphael Gygax, and Tirdad Zolghadr.Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Legal Fiction” by Carey Young at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, from August to November 2013.
Since the late 1990s, Carey Young (born 1970) has investigated the growing influence of international corporations on the individual in works that span a variety of media including video, performance, text, and installation, and which draw on the tradition of Conceptual art. Notably, she studies how language is transformed by corporate culture, or how contractual structures and their linguistic markers progressively pervade and reshape all domains of life. Like a double agent, she immerses herself in the business or legal worlds, donning the appropriate attire and enacting recommended scenarios in order to examine and question the reach of each institution's power, and its ability to shape our contemporary reality.
les presses du réel
2013
Softcover
20 x 27 cm
184 pages
£45
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