[spectre] Critical Art Ensemble, Book Launch: "Disturbances", in London, today

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Four Corners Book Launch: Disturbances – Critical Art Ensemble

Thursday 4 October, 6.30–8.30pm

Introduction by Steve Kurtz, 7pm



The Arts Catalyst

50-54 Clerkenwell Road,

London

EC1M 5PS



"For a rising generation of artists and intellectuals across the world, 
disabused of their illusions, fully aware of the transnational powers of 
the corporate state, and filled with the desire to make any knowledge 
they acquire directly useful to people on the ground, the 
twenty-five-year run of Critical Art Ensemble will be a great inspiration.”

—Brian Holmes, from his Introduction



Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to 
explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and 
political activism. The award-winning collective of tactical media 
practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues 
internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. 
Disturbances is the first book to assess the group’s 25-year history, 
examining the environmental, political, and bio-technological themes of 
their various initiatives.



In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from 
their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models 
of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational 
biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects. 
Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, 
science and politics, and members of Critical Art Ensemble will be in 
attendance at the launch.



To help us anticipate the number of guests, we would appreciate if you 
would RSVP: info at ravenrow.org



Disturbances: Critical Art Ensemble

with an introduction by Brian Holmes

8 x 10.75 inches, 272 pages. RRP £22.50

ISBN 978-0956192882



www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk

www.artscatalyst.org



The book is published by Four Corners Books, a non-profit publisher 
based at Raven Row.


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