A monograph on the renowned artist, writer and poet of Cherokee descent.

Although trained as a painter and draughtsman, David Claerbout (1969) has been taking Belgium and the world by storm with his videos. He works, in his own words, hard but slowly, and he likes to test the endurance of his audience. His films may be as long as 13 hours, he undermines the classic cinema, and teaches us to look in a new way that he calls 'observing'. Claerbout composes his films in his own studio, where he turns thousands of stills and scans into slowly moving films. He expect his public not to be in a hurry and to be prepared to take the time to experience his images. In this first catalogue of his oeuvre, his film and video projects are subjected to serious analysis on the basis of production photos, design sketches and pictures of installations. This offers an exciting point of entry into the method, artistic programme and aesthetic development of the artist.

Visual artist Stan Douglas explores the turbulent history of 1970s Portugal, a time when the nation both freed itself from a dictatorship and relinquished its colonial holdings. The book features three works. The first, a video installation titled 'The Secret Agent', follows a story written by Joseph Conrad in 1907. Douglas keeps the plot characters but transports the narrative to Lisbon, soon after the Carnation Revolution. 'Disco Angola', a series of staged historic photos in New York and Angola, juxtaposes the city's hedonistic nightlife with the African nation's brutal civil war. Finally, 'Luanda-Kinshasa' is a six-hour-long film comprising eleven jazz songs from the legendary 30th Street Studio. Exhibition: Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (09.10.2015-10.01.2016).

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven is known in European art circles for her interdisciplinary practice that combines drawing, painting, computer-generated images, video, film, lightboxes, text and exhibition designs. She has traditionally been linked to a new generation of multimedia artists whose installations explore the spaces and imagery opened up by 21st-century digital technology, as well as to the counter-cultural movements of body art, performance and music scenes. This catalogue is the first to focus on the aspect which has grounded her whole practice since the mid-1970s: the diary-like drawings. Over the last thirty years, the drawings have provided the basis for the entire development of her ideas and aesthetics that result in large-scale thematic projects or films. The catalogue also gives an overview of all the artist's films and drawings from the 1970s to today. English, German, French and Flemish text.