Press alert! Hot @primaryinfo facsimile, 'Dara Birnbaum: Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With)' was recently reviewed by @lareviewofbooks #GracieHadland writes: "Dara Birnbaum began making her films and video installation in the early ’70s, performances that linked new media with the body and psychoanalytic concepts of gestalt, regression, identification, and memory. 'Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With),' recently published by the Brooklyn-based arts press Primary Information, is a facsimile of Birnbaum’s notebook from this period, with detailed drawings, installation plans, and notes for projects. The publication has even recreated creases in the paper and notes in the margins that appear in the artist’s original text. Including these idiosyncratic details gives the reader insight into what #AlexKitnick refers to in his introduction as 'an artist in formation, attempting to process a new technology.' But rather than investigating this technology on its own terms, Birnbaum’s early work puts it in conversation with what she knows best, what she begins with: the body, focusing on the physical experience of spectatorship in video and television.…" She concludes: "Much of Birnbaum’s work tapped into qualities of new media that are embedded in the fabric of our social lives today. So much of today’s technology seems to put us in two places at once, declaring that one can do anything from anywhere using digital media. We have access to an immediate live connection to another place, constantly receiving dispatches of peers’ and strangers’ lives through social media. This fractured nature of contemporary life can only lead to the kind of loss and apathy Birnbaum anticipates in her early work. While the circumstances of media have changed, the feeling of loss, the melancholy of embodiment, has not. If you’re looking at your phone, chances are you’re missing something behind you." Read the full review via linkinbio. @darabirnbaum #DaraBirnbaum #PrimaryInformation https://www.instagram.com/p/CZj3uShlj5i/?utm_medium=tumblr