Text engl. - Photographs, video and film stills and text by Tacita Dean. Illustrated conversation with Tacita Dean by Roland Groenenboom. Includes a filmography and sound works, biography and bibliography. - From the publisher: "The work of Tacita Dean consists primarily of 16mm films and sound pieces in which process, transformation, and coincidences play vital roles. Static camera positions and long takes are characteristic of her films, creating a sense of stillness in their moving images. Her methods are highly flexible: she allows chance to intervene during the phases of preparation, filming, sound recording, and editing in such a way that she continually finds new directions for her work to take, instead of directing it with rigidity. Her films merge fact and fiction. Both the physical world and our private worlds are depicted, with the relationship between them central to the work. She often employs the coastline and sea as a motif in her work, suggesting a fascination with the elemental idea of the sublime. This first monograph on her work accompanies a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and will be a welcome introduction to a young artist whose work has earned her significant praise."
Images and text by Tacita Dean. Includes a brief bibliography. - Teignmouth Electron is the name of a yacht competing in a tragically ending 1969 round-the-world race. The owner tried to cheat, but was sure to be found out and committed suicide. From the text by Tacita Dean: "[Teignmouth Electron] is the culmination of a personal research and involvement with the voyage of Donald Crowhurst which has been part of my life now for over four years. It is astounding with what ease they could pitch a man's life against the revenue brought into their seaside resort by tourism. The language is wildly disproportionate to the hugeness of Crowhurst's ordeal and human failing. You imagine that if you met Crowhurst in the Teignmouth Yachting Club, you might find him a bit arrogant, but as a human being, alone in an unremitting seascape trying to come to terms with his deteriorating psychological state and his monumental deception, his story is genuinely tragic and existential, and leaves the aspirations of Teignmouth Council and little England way, way behind.“ (Antiq. Borelli, Albuquerque NM, 02.2004).