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“ Shadowed! troubles temporal linearity and spatial capture.
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If you are coming to it for the first time, it is a compelling invitation to voyage.” -DANIEL ROSENBERG, cultural historian and author of Cartographies of Time. If you know Rothenberg’s art, Shadowed! is essential reading. Part performance, part archive, part tonic, elsetime is what happens to a retrospective when historical engagement is already the problem of the work. Provided: The fortifying Forward/Backward groove of conceptualist Ellen Rothenberg. “Needed: An example of health which will paralyze the Angels. This book is a gift to anyone curious about or deeply interested in material culture, history, social change, and contemporary art.”-IRINA ARISTARKHOVA, author of Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture. The captivating imagery of Rothenberg’s reflexive and expansive work lifts you out of history’s shadows and makes you feel alive, resisting the wave of inevitability. “Ellen Rothenberg’s book/archive serves as a complex memory machine where the global 20th century’s cultural, political, and social revolutions encounter the local now. This radical book should be in your backpack at a May Day parade or protest strike! Mourn and organize!” -FAITH WILDING, artist, writer, and educator. Worn shoes declare that the way lies both forward and backward, for the past always underlies the present and reverberates deeply in the desires of our current work and lives. “Rothenberg’s feminist social sculpture and animated objects echo radical en-actions from Brecht, Fluxus, suffrage street theatre, and Black Lives Matter protests. The great exclamation mark of the title brings all these absents squarely into view, while posing the pressing question: how does one avoid reenacting shadows from the past! -CAROLINE BERGVALL, artist, writer, performer, and author of Drift.
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New pieces by collaborators enter the scene and become enmeshed in photographic echoes from ‘60s collective rallying, music documentary, contemporary migrancy, material icons, and the live events generated during the exhibition. In this beautiful and thoughtfully designed book, you’ll find each of these aspects explored anew as though readied for further action. “Rothenberg’s work investigates the tension between looking toward the past in the present moment, and the inevitable contraction into the future-as if to say we are all Januses looking back to disparate points in time, and in doing so take them with us into the future.” – BOMBĮllen Rothenberg’s multimodal installation elsetime interlaced performance actions, installation, objects, public invitations to fellow artists, and visual essays. By layering these performative, photographic, and written encounters, Shadowed! allows the afterimage of an exhibition to unfurl beyond the gallery, beyond this book, and into its own elsetime. Shadowed! ends with the transcript of a public conversation that took place within the original exhibit, capturing a discussion that incorporates an active audience. A subsequent section includes documentation of performances produced in response to elsetime by artists, activists, and musicians.
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Beginning with a suite of elsetime photographs, the book continues with reflections on the show by Hannah B Higgins, Jeffrey Skoller, Caroline Picard, and Shawn Michelle Smith-spreading out from there into an artist’s archive that includes scanned fragments of writings by Stefan Brecht, Allen Ginsberg, Angela Davis, and transcribed contributions from Simone Forti. Sweeping through the studio of Bertolt Brecht, Woodstock in the sixties, Berlin in the nineties, and the Syrian protests of today, Shadowed! projects a dispersive, unfolding temporality. Shadowed! confronts the slippage of time and action within Ellen Rothenberg’s exhibition elsetime.