rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Aria Dean - abattoir U.S.A.!
  title info:
    title: Abattoir U.S.A.!
  name:
    name part: Dean, Aria
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ben Salah, Myriam
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lund, Karsten
    name part: (Museum curator)
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: University of Chicago
    name part: Renaissance Society,
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 135 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
  abstract: "Aria Dean's moving image work Abattoir, U.S.A.!, presented in the eponymous exhibition at the Renaissance Society between February and April 2023, surveys the interior of an empty slaughterhouse. This slaughterhouse was built and animated using Unreal Engine, a 3D computer graphics tool for creating virtual environments. The viewer follows a linear path through an impossible architecture--a seamless combination of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century design elements and non-Euclidean spaces. Dean was initially inspired by philosophers Georges Bataille and Frank Wilderson, each of whom address the slaughterhouse in their writings -whether as a metaphor or paradigm--as crucial to the construction of civil society. Abattoir, U.S.A.! also builds on Dean's own research into the slaughterhouse and industrial architecture and the ways they reveal modernism's intimacy with death on conceptual, political, and material levels. This book documents the exhibition as well as selected material from Dean's process and research. It includes essays by film scholar Erika Balsom, who writes on the history of abattoirs and their relation to modernism, Afropessimist theory, and the dehumanizing rationality of capitalism. Architect and writer Keller Easterling contributes a quasi-fictional text from her ongoing series of Draft Teenage Essays, which are part of her collection of experimental writings titled No One Thing. This volume also includes transcripts of two conversations: one between Dean and film historian Bruce Jenkins in which they discuss Dean's work in relation to historical avant-garde films; and another with Dean and co-director of Rhizome Michael Connor, media artist Filip Kostik, and composer Evan Zierk, who created the soundtrack for Abattoir, U.S.A.! Together they discuss the technical process of using Unreal Engine and the nature of virtuality."
  table of contents: The Cow Question / Erika Balsom -- The Virtual and the Visceral / Michael Connor, Aria Dean, Filip Kostic, and Evan Zierk in Conversation -- Ghost in the Machine / Aria Dean and Bruce Jenkins in Conversation -- Draft Teenage Essay Thirteen: Spiders and Spit / Keller Easterling -- Meta-models, or How I Became an Allegory for Myself / Aria Dean -- On Abattoir, U.S.A.! / Kyle Thomas Hinton.
  note: edited by Aria Dean, Myriam Ben Salah, and Karsten Lund.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dean, Aria
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Video art
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Slaughtering and slaughter-houses in art
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Art vidéo
    genre: Expositions
  classification: N6537.D4336 A4 2024
  classification: 709.2
  identifier: 9780941548908
  identifier: 0941548902
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 250114
    record change date: 20250804223535.5
    record identifier: in00005656259
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng