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Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons

Contributors:

By (Author) Amanda Gilvin

ISBN:

9783777433165

Publisher:

Hirmer Verlag

Imprint:

Hirmer Verlag

Publication Date:

5th December 2019

UK Publication Date:

26th September 2019

Country:

Germany

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

700.411

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

148

Dimensions:

Width 230mm, Height 285mm

Weight:

1000g

Description

Renowned for work that layers binary code with handmade craft, Fatimah Tuggar is one of the most original, incisive conceptual artists of the digital age. Tuggar's sculp-tures, photomontages, videos, and interactive works challenge roman-ticized notions of both ancient traditions and recent inventions. Born in Nigeria and based in Kansas City, multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar (b. 1967) interrogates the systems underlying human interactions with both high-tech gadgets and handmade crafts. She seeks to promote social justice by implicating everyone in these systems, while playfully proposing new ways of seeing and making. Her work destabilizes the attachment to a single city, nation, or continent as a "home" in a world of migrants who may move between different kinds of homes. The essays here address Tuggar's uvre within the confluence of the histories of conceptual art, tech art, and African art. In an interview with curator Amanda Gilvin, the artist reflects on the resonance of her early works and the goals of her new experiments in Augmented Reality (AR).

Author Bio

Amanda Gilvin is assistant curator at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

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