Memory and Dance Build On The Documents of Contemporary Art's

The Whitechapel Gallery launches new titles in the Documents of
Contemporary Art series: Dance and Memory
The Whitechapel Gallery launches two new titles in its popular series of
affordable paperback readers. Documents of Contemporary Art are definitive
anthologies on major themes in art today, guest-edited and introduced by some
of the most influential figures in the world of art and ideas.
Memory and Dance build on the Documents of Contemporary Art’s

collaborations with internationally renowned art historians, curators, critics
and artists, including editors David Batchelor, Claire Bishop, Brian Dillon,
Charles Merewether and Simon Morley.
Dance surveys the growing influence of choreography in the arts from the
1950s onwards, including writings by influential visual artists whose work
takes inspiration from dance. This anthology explores the aesthetic and
political influence of dance on contemporary culture, surveying artists such
as Marina Abramović, Jérôme Bel, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Lygia
Pape and Tino Sehgal and writings by Gilles Deleuze, Peter Eleey, Mark
Franko and Henri Lefebvre. Dance is edited by André Lepecki, Associate
Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.
Memory looks at the various ways art can engage with memory, from
archives, relics and histories to phenomena such as ‘haunting’. The book
explores contemporary art in relation to theoretical developments that go
back to early modernism, featuring artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
Susan Hiller, Roni Horn, Glenn Ligon, Robert Morris, Luc Tuymans and Kara
Walker and writings by Daniel Birnbaum, T.J. Demos, Bryony Fer and Lisa
Saltzman. Memory is edited by Ian Farr, series editor of Documents of
Contemporary Art.
The next Documents of Contemporary Art titles, Documentary and
Abstraction, will be launched in spring 2013 and mark the publication of the
th
25 book in the series. Documentary, edited by Julian Stallabrass, looks at
the aesthetics of documentary. Abstraction, edited by Maria Lind, is an in-
depth examination of art’s engagement with abstraction since the 1960s.
Notes for Editors
• André Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of

Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of
Exhausting Dance: Performance and Politics of Movement (2006) and
a regular contributor to Performance Research, Drama Review,
Artforum, Nouvelles de Danse, among other publications in Europe,
Brazil and the Middle East.
• Ian Farr is series editor of Documents of Contemporary Art and the
former editor of Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists and Themes &
Movements series.
• Previous titles in the Documents of Contemporary Art series include
The Studio (edited by Jens Hoffmann), Nature (edited by Jeffrey
Kastner), Ruins (edited by Brian Dillon), Participation (edited by Claire
Bishop), The Archive (edited by Charles Merewether). All titles £14.95.
• Series Editor, Iwona Blazwick OBE, is Director of the Whitechapel
Gallery and founding Commissioning Editor of Phaidon’s
Contemporary Artists and Themes and Movements series.
• The series is designed by SMITH.
• Co-published by Whitechapel Gallery whitechapelgallery.org and The
MIT Press mitpress.org.
• Dance is published in collaboration with Sadler’s Wells, London.
Whitechapel Gallery Publications
To buy titles in the Documents of Contemporary Art series and other

Whitechapel Gallery Publications visit whitechapelgallery.org, email
[email protected] or phone 020 7522 7888. Also available
from the Whitechapel Gallery bookshop, call +44 (0)20 7522 7897 or
email [email protected]
Memory edited by Ian Farr, £14.95. ISBN 978-0-85488-204-5

Dance edited by Andre Lepecki, £14.95. ISBN 978-0-85488-203-8
Distributed to booksellers in the UK and Europe by Central Books
Call +44 (0)845 458 9910 centralbooks.com
For further press information, review copies and images please contact:
Alex O’Neill on +44 (0)20 7539 3360 or email
[email protected]

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The Whitechapel Gallery launches new titles in the Documents of

Contemporary Art series: Dance and Memory

Memory and Dance build on the Documents of Contemporary Art’s

Notes for Editors

• André Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of

Whitechapel Gallery Publications

To buy titles in the Documents of Contemporary Art series and other

Memory edited by Ian Farr, £14.95. ISBN 978-0-85488-204-5

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