Double Exposures (eBook)

lt;p>Manuel Vason’s artistic practice explores the relationship between photography and performance, presence and representation. He considers the capturing of a moment as an act of creation, as a ritual towards the illusion of immortality and as an exchange between who is in front and who is behind the camera. The collaborative nature of his practice shapes a unique hybrid art form and forms new vocabularies. His collaborations to date have become some of the most iconic images of performance, and his work has been published and presented internationally.

Vason was born in Padua, Italy in 1974. He discovered his interest in photography while working in a black and white professional darkroom. After having assisted some of the most celebrated fashion photographers of his generation in Milan, New York, Paris, London and Los Angeles, he decided to pursue a Masters degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins at University of the Arts in London. The focus of his research shifted from the body as subject into the relationship between photography and performance. In 2002 he presented two books: Exposures, a publication on the body in Live Art (Black Dog Publishing, 2002) and Oh Lover Boy, a two-year collaboration with artist Franko B (Black Dog Publishing, 2002). In 2007, Vason’s first solo exhibition Encounters was presented and accompanied by a 230 page catalogue (Arnolfini/Cornerhouse). Vason is continuously developing a practice integrating different mediums and collaborative methods.

Manuel Vason website: www.manuelvason.com 
Manuel Vason online archive of all his collaborations to date: www.artcollaboration.co.uk
Double Exposures project website: www.double-exposures.com

Introduction, David Evans

Double Exposures, Manuel Vason in Dialogue with Helena Blaker

Manuel Vason – Framing Live Art, Lois Keidan

Performance, Photography, Collaboration, Revisted: A History of Manuel Vason, Dominic Johnson

Past-Present-Future, Alice Maude-Roxby

Merely a Stain in the Picture?, Christopher Townsend

Doubled Up: The Art of the Body, David Bate

Performative Conceptualism: Double Sense, Double Fracture, Double View, Adrien Sina

The Life-Making Power of Photography, Joanna Zylinska

Double Exposures

Reversing the Gaze

Double Images

Artists' Notes

Behind the Scenes

Biographies

100 Exposures

After Double Exposures