Oscar Tuazon: Live: Volumes 1 & 2

Oscar Tuazon: Live, the second major publication on the American artist (born 1975), concentrates on an exhibition of new sculptural works at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, including a full-scale reproduction of fragments of the artist's house in Los Angeles.
Dean's thinking embraces a definition of “Black art that luxuriates in its outside-the-world-ness,” as she writes in this volume, which works to elucidate “Blackness's proclivity for making and unmaking its own rules as it produces objects” of cultural necessity. Originally published in November—of which Dean is a founding editor—as well as in Texte zur Kunst, e-flux journal, and in exhibition contexts, the essays compiled in Bad Infinity were written over a six-year span that charts our rapidly evolving forms of subjectivity and sociality.