Steven Bode Libros

Repetition. Digital technology and art. Use of webcam, video projection.

Burnout, stress and lack of engagement can all take their toll in today's pressurised workplace. By sharing the stories of high-achievers in walks of life as varied as elite sport and polar exploration, this book offers you 20 practical ways to position yourself not only to survive in a high pressure environment, but truly thrive.

"Looking for Alfred" documents Johan Grimonprez's prize-winning film of the same name, an homage to Alfred Hitchcock in the form of a search for the perfect Hitchcock doppelganger and vignettes starring those multiple would-be Hitchcocks, reenacting his cameos. Casting calls and screen tests in London, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and New York are documented in film stills and photos. (Professional Hitchcock impersonator Rob Burrage says, "I thought I was safe until you guys came along, digging up all those other Hitchcock look-alikes. Now we will have to find ways of disposing of them.") Line-readings from Truffaut's famous 1960s interview with the master and scenes in which Hitchcock acted as an extra are further grist for the mill. Beyond the work's mockumentary structure, Grimonprez evokes the Hitchcockian universe uncannily, and connects back--through the recurring motif of a man in a suit and a bowler hat--to another great modern auteur, Rene Magritte.

Erika Tan (born Singapore, 1967) has a background in anthropology, which informs her practice as an artist and curator. Her work is informed by the social, geographical and cultural contexts it is made for, and employs a variety of media to provoke, challenge and stimulate its audiences. Erika Tan's innovative installation 'Pidgin' explores the mutations of languages as they clash, combine and cross-pollinate one into another in today's media-saturated polyglot landscape. The first monograph focusing on Tan's work, this book features contributions from Nikos Papastergiadis, Simon Willmoth and Steven Bode.

Published to coincide with the Film and Video Umbrella's touring exhibition Peeping Tom shown at the Site Gallery, Sheffield, England, 5 February-11 March 2000 and Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England, 7 June-5 July 2000, and the exhibition Mark Lewis Films 1995-2000 at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 20 October 2000-4 February 2001.

This publication accompanies the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2015, for which emerging artists Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett were commissioned to create major new works, in response to a designated theme.

Perfect for beginners, this book is an introduction to basic drawing techniques, and offers encouragement and motivation to the novice artist.

"This publication accompanies the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017, for which Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek were commissioned to create major new works using moving image.In response to the curatorial theme, Neither One Thing or Another both artists employ pioneering, conceptually fitting, technologies to examine the steadily blurring line between the real and the artificial. Amongst stills from each of the films, the dedicated texts by Steven Bode and Naomi Pearce explore the wider questions raised by the curatorial premise, assembling conceptual parallels between the new works by Hough and Lek.The Jerwood/FVU Awards are a collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Film and Video Umbrella. FVU is supported by Arts Council England. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Neither One Thing or Another at Jerwood Space, London (22 March - 14 May 2017). UK-wide special screenings of the films at venues include: CCA, Glasgow; HOME, Manchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; and FACT, Liverpool."

Tower Street, East London, 1975: a crumbling block of artists' studios shaped by the myth of male genius but maintained by Connie, a female caretaker struggling to find her creative voice. Cut to 2017, and this same building is now luxury apartments, the new home of young couple Jane and Tam...