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Since the mid-1990s, Algerian-born, New York-based Adel Abdessemed has unerringly located and triggered the religious, sexual and racial taboos of our culture. This volume takes a broad look at Abdessemed's activities, from his "street acts" to more recent works.

Luis Camnitzer is a German-born Uruguayan artist who was at the vanguard of 1960s Conceptualism, working primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installations. Camnitzer's artwork explores subjects such as social injustice, repression, and institutional critique. His humorous, biting, and often politically charged use of language as art medium has distinguished his practice for over four decades. -- From alexandergray.com.

Since 2006, Tavares Strachan has been working on a body of work investigating orthostatic tolerance--our capacity to withstand deep-sea and outer-space pressure. Strachan's films, examined here, show the artist in training for his experiments with gravitational stress. The book also is a record of Strachan's artists' residence at MIT.