Books by Steve Reinke
The Shimmering Beast
by Steve Reinke
By turns funny and abstruse, The Shimmering Beast is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another’s work, while reinterpreting the role of the critic—as supplicant, as cannibal, as skeptic. Reinke looks at the visual arts with a particularly literary eye, notably in his shrewd writing on Philip Hoffman’s film Kitchener—Berlin, and his subjects are diverse and fascinating. Featured artists include: filmmaker Frank Cole, video artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, and photographer Doug Ischar, as well as many others. Poetic, absurd, and tartly poignant, these texts record the process and reach of an artistic mind at the height of its powers.
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Blast Counterblast
Blast Counterblast is a multifaceted, fascinating examination of the way intellectuals interact--through influence, through argumentation, and through criticism. Looking at both Wyndham Lewis's modernist publication BLAST and Marshall McLuhan's 1969 response to it, COUNTERBLAST, the contributors to this volume--a selection of writers, visual artists, performers, and filmmakers--skewer relational aesthetics and identity politics in order to restate what the role of identity formation is today. Taking McLuhan and Lewis as starting points, the essays in this volume develop and push the ideas presented in both BLAST and COUNTERBLAST while the book design pays homage to both thinkers' experiments in typography. Blast Counterblast includes the writings of Maria Fusco, Michael Hoolboom, My Barbarian, Lane Relyea, and Ryan Trecartin.
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