PUBLISHER
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 120 pgs / 80 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/14/2016
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 114

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780996211628 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CDN $47.50 GBP £30.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

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The Propeller Group

Edited by Naomi Beckwith. Foreword by Claudia Schmuckli. Text by Naomi Beckwith, Cesar Garcia, et al.

The Propeller Group--an artist team made up of Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam--blurs the boundaries between fine art and media production, in much the same way that this publication blurs the boundaries between a traditional exhibition catalogue and an artist’s book. The publication features essays by curators Naomi Beckwith and Cesar Garcia, as well as contributions by each of the members of The Propeller Group: Nguyen pens an obituary for the group that pays homage to Vietnamese funereal celebrations, Phunam shares an astrological reading and Lucero creates a travelogue that records the group’s recent exploration of Papua New Guinea.

Featured images are reproduced from 'The Propeller Group.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Artforum

Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol

The Propeller Group resists the expectations that typically constrain Vietnamese artists, who are all too often asked to speak of history rather than here and now… Approaching topics of death and violence with heady sensuality, their videos ask what a less melancholic relationship to Vietnam’s history might look like— a crucial first step in moving beyond entrenched notions of trauma.