David Hammons Is on Our Mind

Download or read book David Hammons Is on Our Mind written by Anthony Huberman and published by Cca Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the transcription of three public events: a 1994 lecture by David Hammons (previously unpublished) as well as a poem by Tongo Eisen-Martin and a lecture by Fred Moten, both from 2017. The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, an exhibition space and research institute in San Francisco, dedicates year-long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2016-17, the American artist David Hammons was "on our mind."This book begins with the transcript of a rare artist talk given by Hammons in 1994 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on the occasion of his exhibition there. It then introduces a series of photographs the artist sent to the Wattis Institute in 2017, interspersed with texts by the Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin and the writer and critic Fred Moten. Much like Hammons' work, this publication raises more questions than answers. Rather than functioning as a comprehensive introduction to the artist, David Hammons is on our mind offers visual and textual elements that relate obliquely to the enigmatic artist's oeuvre.