An illustrated examination of Mark Leckey's celebrated video montage. In 1999, the British artist Mark Leckey released his video-montage Fiorucci made me Hardcore, a dreamscape vignette that communes with the rapturous promises of youth. Putting archive material to use, Leckey entwined footage of underground dance and street culture in Britain with audio grifted and recorded in the artist's studio. In this illustrated study, the first comprehensive examination of the work, Mitch Speed argues that by interweaving personal and collective memory, this work gives voice to the complexities of class and cultural transformation during Britain's Thatcherite era. Oscillating between local and expansive resonances, Fiorucci made me Hardcore takes form as a homage, love letter, and work of criticism that eschews analysis, instead incanting the deeper implications of its subject.

Detective Mitch Speed served with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for sixteen years, during which time he was publicly recognized as representing "the best of law enforcement in terms of respect for citizens, respect for his community, and a commitment to exemplary service above all else." In his personal life Mitch was esteemed as a loving husband, father, mentor, and worship leader committed to helping others and serving God. After being diagnosed in 2016 with stage-4 cancer, Mitch spent countless hours in front of his computer penning a book initially intended for family and friends. However, since its original release in 2017, Mitch Speed-The Man Behind the Badge has been reprinted multiple times after finding its way into the hands and hearts of Americans of all walks of life. This second edition features all the original cherished stories and poetry of cowboy-cop philosopher Mitch Speed. It also includes messages from Vickie Speed and Brodie Speed, Mitch's wife and son, as well as additional content discovered posthumously on his computer. And now, we welcome you to the ever-growing number of "Speed Readers" blessed to spend time with the inspiring and soul-nurturing words of Mitch Speed, the man behind the badge.

"In these six essays, Mitch Speed plumbs the ambivalences that at once fuel and plague art. Written over the last fifteen years, in parallel to Speed’s work as an art critic, the essays forward ways of writing, which might be better equipped to trace art’s role in life, from personal intricacies to looming political questions.Each piece proceeds through a specific theme, for example: the art world’s relationship to socioeconomic injustice, the beguiling return of found objects to contemporary art, the devolution of art criticism into a branch of the communications industry, and how we can better understand art’s meanings, by attending closely to the words of the people who make it."--Publisher's website.

Playing Field of Identities Mike Bourscheid (b. Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 1984; lives and works in Vancouver, Canada) designs and manufactures multilayered and symbolically fraught costumes and sculptures that figure prominently in his sprawling installations, videos, and performances. In 2017, Bourscheid caused a stir with the Idealverein he conceived for the Luxembourg pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The costumes and objects he tailors, molds, forges, and carves for his protagonists suit them as though they had never worn anything else. Cowboy boots, leather aprons, and bodices tell stories, point to conventional roles the wearers might be playing and their place in history. But are accessories enough to transform a performer into a princess, a cowboy, a father? Bourscheid uses art to probe interpersonal relationships. His humorous works play with roles and identities, bringing a mischievous yet unmistakably urgent challenge to the ideas of character, manhood, physique, and attire: how expressive are they in fact, how reliable are our interpretations of them? The publication Pisces and Capricorns is published on the occasion of Bourscheid's first solo exhibition in the German-speaking world, which was shown at the Kunstpalais in Erlangen and subsequently at the Heidelberger Kunstverein. His latest, very personal work Agnes is published here for the first time. The texts were written by Amely Deiss, Mitch Speed and Frédéric Schwilden.