Nancy Holt: Locating Perception
Locating Perception is an extensively illustrated primer on Nancy Holt’s work, paying particular attention to her investigations into the structures we humans use as we attempt to understand our place on the surface of our planet.
Holt recalibrated what art can be and where it can be found. Across five decades she deployed a careful understanding of what it is to perceive, asking that we look beyond what we think we know. Holt issues a call to pause, observe, and rethink structures forming our assumptions of the surrounding world. She repeatedly asks a simple question: what do you see? Touching on a rich artistic practice that spanned from 1966 to 2014, this publication looks at her experiments with language, audio, location, light, and infrastructures of the built environment.
Locating Perception features an essay by scholar Julian Myers-Szupinska exploring the ways Holt investigated geological and cosmological orders of time. In the essay “Inner Earth,” Myers-Szupinska asks the question “why Holt now?” and takes note of Holt’s profound anti-humanism, an approach that vibrates with our contemporary times.
In 2012 writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris conducted one of the last interviews with Nancy Holt; this publication prints this conversation in an expanded version form its first publication.
Locating Perception includes a detailed timeline of Nancy Holt’s life and work, bringing together new research gathered by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Published on occasion of the 2023 exhibition Nancy Holt: Locating Perception at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA
Authors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Laura McLean-Ferris, Julian Myers-Szupinska
Editors
Isabelle Demin, Andreas Schleicher-Lange
Specifications
Walther Koenig, 2023
ISBN 9783753303376
Softback
226 pages
225mm x 170mm / 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches
English
$40
Locating Perception is an extensively illustrated primer on Nancy Holt’s work, paying particular attention to her investigations into the structures we humans use as we attempt to understand our place on the surface of our planet.
Holt recalibrated what art can be and where it can be found. Across five decades she deployed a careful understanding of what it is to perceive, asking that we look beyond what we think we know. Holt issues a call to pause, observe, and rethink structures forming our assumptions of the surrounding world. She repeatedly asks a simple question: what do you see? Touching on a rich artistic practice that spanned from 1966 to 2014, this publication looks at her experiments with language, audio, location, light, and infrastructures of the built environment.
Locating Perception features an essay by scholar Julian Myers-Szupinska exploring the ways Holt investigated geological and cosmological orders of time. In the essay “Inner Earth,” Myers-Szupinska asks the question “why Holt now?” and takes note of Holt’s profound anti-humanism, an approach that vibrates with our contemporary times.
In 2012 writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris conducted one of the last interviews with Nancy Holt; this publication prints this conversation in an expanded version form its first publication.
Locating Perception includes a detailed timeline of Nancy Holt’s life and work, bringing together new research gathered by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Published on occasion of the 2023 exhibition Nancy Holt: Locating Perception at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA
Authors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Laura McLean-Ferris, Julian Myers-Szupinska
Editors
Isabelle Demin, Andreas Schleicher-Lange
Specifications
Walther Koenig, 2023
ISBN 9783753303376
Softback
226 pages
225mm x 170mm / 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches
English
$40
Locating Perception is an extensively illustrated primer on Nancy Holt’s work, paying particular attention to her investigations into the structures we humans use as we attempt to understand our place on the surface of our planet.
Holt recalibrated what art can be and where it can be found. Across five decades she deployed a careful understanding of what it is to perceive, asking that we look beyond what we think we know. Holt issues a call to pause, observe, and rethink structures forming our assumptions of the surrounding world. She repeatedly asks a simple question: what do you see? Touching on a rich artistic practice that spanned from 1966 to 2014, this publication looks at her experiments with language, audio, location, light, and infrastructures of the built environment.
Locating Perception features an essay by scholar Julian Myers-Szupinska exploring the ways Holt investigated geological and cosmological orders of time. In the essay “Inner Earth,” Myers-Szupinska asks the question “why Holt now?” and takes note of Holt’s profound anti-humanism, an approach that vibrates with our contemporary times.
In 2012 writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris conducted one of the last interviews with Nancy Holt; this publication prints this conversation in an expanded version form its first publication.
Locating Perception includes a detailed timeline of Nancy Holt’s life and work, bringing together new research gathered by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Published on occasion of the 2023 exhibition Nancy Holt: Locating Perception at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA
Authors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Laura McLean-Ferris, Julian Myers-Szupinska
Editors
Isabelle Demin, Andreas Schleicher-Lange
Specifications
Walther Koenig, 2023
ISBN 9783753303376
Softback
226 pages
225mm x 170mm / 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches
English
$40