Isaac Julien
Playtime & Kapital
Isaac Julien’s work draws from and comments on a range of disciplines and practices (film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting, and sculpture) and unites them in dramatic audiovisual film installations, photographic works, and documentary films. His work addresses current problems and, at the same time, analyzes the image in terms of its political condition and formal construction. The exhibition Playtime & Kapital elaborates the problem of how to understand and represent the immaterial quality of capital in the postindustrial capitalist world.
Playtime exposes the way in which the logic of capital constructs a system of social relations in which art and the art market play a significant role, while Kapital records a theoretical discussion between Julien and the Marxist thinker David Harvey concerning precisely these issues, a conversation that took place during the conference Choreographing Capital at the Hayward Gallery in London, 2012.
- Authors
- Aebhric Coleman, Amanda de la Garza, Stuart Hall, Sarah Thornton, Isaac Julien, Steven Varni
- Editor
- MUAC-UNAM, RM
- Language
- Spanish - English
- Format
- 16x22 cm
- Edition
- 2016
- Extension
- 128 p.
- Price
- $180
