Full Description
Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.
Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010-2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers' Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. At the time of his sad passing in the Summer of 2013, Allan Sekula was in the midst of collaborating on this publication with all four contributing authors: Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alberto Toscano, and Hilde Van Gelder, each of whom he had asked to write essays. This volume, which includes a representative ensemble of images and objects that are part of Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum, follows as closely as possible the instructions given by the artist and is the first substantial scholarly analysis of this impressive project. The volume also includes draft text materials written by the artist himself, as well as selections from the multitude of unpublished interviews, public debates, and lectures that Allan Sekula delivered between 2010 and 2012.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Contributors: Jürgen Bock (Maumaus), Gail Day (University of Leeds), Bart De Baere (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen),Steve Edwards (Open University), Allan Sekula† (California Institute of the Arts), Sally Stein (University of California, Irvine), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths), Hilde Van Gelder (KU Leuven)
Contents
Foreword: Pas de deux
Jürgen Bock and Bart De Baere
Introduction
Hilde Van Gelder
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Allan Sekula's Chronotopes:
Uneven & Combined Capitalism
Steve Edwards
Photography Against the Flow: Abstraction
and Logistics in Allan Sekula's Writings
Alberto Toscano
Allan Sekula's Transitive Poetics: Metonymy
and Metaphor in Lottery of the Sea, Ship of Fools
and The Dockers' Museum
Gail Day
Allan Sekula's Labor of Giants
Hilde Van Gelder
Collection and Recollection: Allan Sekula's
Nutcracker Suite
Sally Stein
Selected Texts by and Excerpts from Discussions
with Allan Sekula Relating to Ship of Fools /
The Dockers' Museum
Edited by Hilde Van Gelder
Bibliography
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Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum:
A Representative Sample
Captions
