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    The Shimmering Beast
    The Shimmering Beast
    The Shimmering Beast
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    The Shimmering Beast

    By Steve Reinke

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    Steve Reinke is one of the most intriguing artists we've got; his scope is enormous, his imagination absolutely singular. His video art — The Hundred Videos, Anthology of American Folk Song, Anal Masturbation and Object Loss — practically define the genre.

    Reinke tells us, in 'Kitchener–Berlin,' his appreciation of Philip Hoffman's film of that title, that experimental video is centred around voice — a decidedly peculiar and literary notion. It makes good sense, then, that this experimental video artist is also an accomplished prose writer.

    Collected herein are Reinke's best recent prose pieces. Hybrids of criticism, fiction and personal essay, these pieces all engage — by pillaging, by honouring, by scrutinizing, by cannibalizing — an other's work: the films of Frank Cole, the videos of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, the photos of Douglas Ischar, the writings of Dr. Paul Brouardel and the psycho­analysis of Melanie Klein, to name just a few.

    Funny, absurd and tartly poignant, these texts document the process and reach of an artistic mind at the height of its powers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoach House Books
    Release dateSep 22, 2011
    ISBN9781770562899
    The Shimmering Beast
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    Steve Reinke

    Steve Reinke has exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, the National Gallery, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the New York Video Festival. He is the co-editor, with Tom Taylor, of Lux: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video and, with Chris Gehman, the forthcoming The World is a Cartoon: Artists’ Animation at the End of Cinema. He lives in Toronto and wherever he happens to find employment (most recently Chicago and Los Angeles).

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