Cameron Jamie

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Cameron Jamie Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Text by Philippe Vergne. Excerpt by Charles Bukowski Cameron Jamie's work--a blend of video, sound, performance, photography and drawing--confronts the dysfunction of European and American society. His critical gaze often focuses on ritualistic practices in popular culture, such as
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WALKER ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780935640878
$34.95 | In stock

Cameron Jamie Essays by Gary Indiana, Mike Kelley and Ralph Rugoff. Cameron Jamie's calling is tracking down extreme social phenomena and presenting them in short documentary films. His best known film, BB, documents backyard wrestling among working-class kids in his native San Fernando
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HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775717267
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Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie

Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Text by Philippe Vergne. Excerpt by Charles Bukowski
Published by Walker Art Center

Cameron Jamie's work--a blend of video, sound, performance, photography and drawing--confronts the dysfunction of European and American society. His critical gaze often focuses on ritualistic practices in popular culture, such as hot dog eating contests and backyard wrestling. Taking suburban phenomena of this sort as his primary material, Jamie explores the dark underbelly of the American dream in drawings, film and performance. This artist-designed exhibition catalogue features more than 60 works in various media, illuminating the artist's process with selections from his personal archive of clippings and ephemera, as well as raw sketches for his projects. An essay by exhibition curator Philippe Vergne, a foreword by Walker director Kathy Halbreich and a reprint of a poem by Charles Bukowski selected by the artist provide context for this first large-scale, museum presentation of Jamie's work.

Cameron Jamie

Essays by Gary Indiana, Mike Kelley and Ralph Rugoff.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Cameron Jamie's calling is tracking down extreme social phenomena and presenting them in short documentary films. His best known film, BB, documents "backyard wrestling" among working-class kids in his native San Fernando Valley. In Spook Houses, he explores a suburban Chicago community that takes a little too much pleasure in the macabre at Halloween, transforming front lawns into cemeteries and kitchens into mausoleums. And in Kranky Claus, a film about Krampus rituals in Austria, he accompanies those legendary demons on their nightmarish pre-Christmas tour, thrashing frightened children. As Jamie says of his subjects and as he proves to his audiences, "The creepiest things in the world are always the things that are considered to be the most Œnormal.'"