Hello There!
We're thrilled to announce the publication of a significant book-length
study on the geologically sensitive work of artist Ilana Halperin.
Edited by Dr. Catriona McAra and beautifully deisgned by Maia Gaffney Hyde,
Ilana Halperin: Felt Events comprises critical reflections on
Halperin's work, alongside a 'core sample' of artist's
writings. The book is available to order now in both a hardback special
edition and a standard trade paperback.
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ILANA HALPERIN: FELT EVENTS HERE
If you're new to Ilana's work, please enjoy a few preview pictures
below... we're incredibly happy with how the book has turned out.
All the best,
Jamie & Mark
Strange Attractor Press
Ilana Halperin
Felt Events
Edited by Catriona McAra
150mm x 210mm
HB/PB, 224pp
16pp colour, fully illustrated throughout
ISBN: 9781913689346
Limited edition hardback (200 copies): £30
Paperback: £18.99
Artist Ilana Halperin shares her birthday with an Icelandic volcano. Working through the aesthetics of geology since the late 1990s, her multifaceted, conceptual practice unearths the intimate poetics of rocks, minerals, and body stones.
Halperin’s fieldwork has led her from erupting volcanoes in Hawaii to petrifying caves in France and geothermal springs in Japan. Felt Events surveys the last two decades of Halperin’s output (1999–2020), representing a mid-career moment of reflection.
This collection includes critical and experimental writing from international curators Lisa Le Feuvre and Naoko Mabon, art historians Andrew Patrizio and Dominic Paterson, anthropologist Jerry Zee, and writer Nicola White. It also offers examples of Halperin’s performance lectures, some of which appear in print for the first time.
Felt Events introduces Halperin’s work to new generations of
artists, writers, and environmental activists—those who will shape the
critical landscapes of the twenty-first century.