Texts explore the multifaceted conceptual practice of the artist Ilana
Halperin.
Ilana Halperin (b.1973) is an artist who shares her birthday with an
Icelandic volcano. Working through the aesthetics of geology since the
late 1990s, her multifaceted, conceptual practice unearths the intimate
poetics of rocks, minerals, and body stones. Halperin's fieldwork has
led her from erupting volcanoes in Hawaii to petrifying caves in France
and geothermal springs in Japan. Felt Events surveys the last two
decades of Halperin's output (1999-2020), representing a mid-career
moment of reflection.
Felt Events includes critical and experimental writing from
international curators, Lisa Le Feuvre and Naoko Mabon, art historians
Andrew Patrizio and Dominic Paterson, anthropologist Jerry Zee, and
writer Nicola White. It also offers examples of Halperin's performance
lectures, some of which appear in print for the first time.
This collection introduces Halperin's work to new generations of
artists, writers, and environmental activists--those who will shape the
critical landscapes of the twenty-first century.