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Visual Series: The Other Night Sky

NEWS:

- UTNE READER names Paglen one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World"

- Upcoming one-person exhibitions at Bellwether Gallery (New York, March, 2009) Altman-Siegel Gallery (San Francisco, February 2009) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SECA Exhibition, February 2009)

- Art Papers reviews "The Other Night Sky"

- Paglen awarded "Art Matters" grant

- Dutton to release "Blank Spots on the Map" February 5, 2009



Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism officially comes out in January, 2009. The book is edited by Nato Thompson and contains essays by Thompson, Jeffrey Kastner, and myself. The book is a visual and critical exploration of ideas about space, politics, and cultural production that Thompson and I have developed over more than a decade of conversations.

“What could be more delightful—and unsettling—than turning loose a group of contemporary surrealists, disguised as vagabonds and artists, in the ripe fields of the hyper-real? Experimental Geography isn’t about space; it is about terminal strangeness.”

—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear

"Another step in the ongoing quest for social energies not yet recognized as art, Experimental Geography brings together a significant group of artists and collectives looking seriously at land use—urban and rural, local and global. Leaving behind the earthworks of the past, and reviving the line-blurring process that defined art and lived experience in 1960s conceptualism, much of this work is not about geography but exist within geography, exploring the politics and infrastructures that can either change or stall the world."

—Lucy Lippard, author of The Lure of the Local

 




I Could Tell You But Then
You Would Have to be Destroyed By Me


"A fascinating set of shoulder patches designed for the Pentagon's Black Ops programs."

—Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

“A glimpse of [the Pentagon’s] dark world through a revealing lens—patches—the kind worn on military uniforms.... The book offers not only clues into the nature of the secret programs, but also a glimpse of zealous male bonding among the presumed elite of the military-industrial complex. The patches often feel like fraternity pranks gone ballistic.”

—William Broad, The New York Times, April 1, 2008

“Gives readers a peek into the shadows ... Department of Defense spokesman Bob Mehal told Newsweek that it ‘would not be prudent to comment on what patches did or did not represent classified units.’ That’s OK. Some mysteries are more fun when they stay unsolved.”

—Karen Pinchin, Newsweek



Release Date:
February 5, 2009