Books published by Afterall Publishing

An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticica's most important work of "quasi-cinema" on its fortieth anniversary.

An examination of Pierre Huyghe''s post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.Pierre Huyghe''s 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She''s a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child''s bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there''s no music. Instead Huyghe''s film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey''s recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it.

Offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. This journal features essays on art history and critical theory.

Features essays on art history and critical theory. This book looks at connectivity and the role of the museum in the contemporary age. It also examines notions of materiality and historicity in practices.

An illustrated examination of one of Hirschhorn's "precarious" monuments, now dismantled.

A journal that offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. It looks at artistic practices that question notions of marginality, with special attention to the work of Panamarenko, Nilbar Gures, K P Krishnakumar, and the Kerala Radicals.

An examination of the complex and subtle world on display in Rodney Graham's film of an LSD-inflected bicycle ride.

Looks at artists whose practices respond to specific local contexts in different ways, from American artist Jimmie Durham's installations about US politics and civil rights to Israeli artist Yael Bartana's films about contemporary Europe.

A richly illustrated study of Marc Chaimowicz's groundbreaking 1972 post-Pop installation-performance piece Celebration? Realife.

The first sustained examination of a canonical and widely exhibited work by a leading artist of the former Yugoslavia.

A critical close-up of Warhol's famous film and its cultural impact