PERMANENT REVOLUTION: ISTVAN
KANTOR
Kantor Collective, 2014
Permanent Revolution: Istvan Kantor is an artist monograph published by the Kantor Collective (Linda Feesey, Mireille Bourgeois, Istvan Kantor), and is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
This project is based on Istvan Kantor’s film and video works of the past three decades (since 1979). The aim of this book is to bring attention to the lasting impact and influence of radical media art in Canada and abroad, by presenting Istvan Kantor’s artwork as an important platform through which to discuss politics in art.
This is the first major Canadian publication outlining Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin Amen's media art and performance work, including a great number of full color illustrations, outstanding essays by such brilliant writers as Mike Hoolboom, Lewis Kaye, Shannon Bell, Eszter Jagica, Mireille Bourgeois, and Kristine Stiles. It also includes an interview conducted by MOCCA director David Liss, and a selection of Kantor's own Neoist manifestos and autobiographical writings. Expert book editors Linda Feesey and Mireille Bourgeois incorporated a well researched bibliography together with lists of Kantor's selected media art works and major music works.
Istvan Kantor comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. He wasn’t born and he’ll never die. His main creative discipline is revolt. He turns blood into gold. His work is intellectually subversive, anti-authoritarian, as well as technically innovative and highly experimental.
Kantor’s work as a media artist dates back to the late 70s in Montreal where he began producing videos. Kantor was a new immigrant, only recently arriving from Budapest via Paris, and interested in the new developments of current artistic expression where video was the new form to be explored. His media art can be described as technology based media art, including video, interactive robotic machinery, kinetic sculpture, transmission machine, extended body, and hyper-noise.
Kantor Collective, 2014
Permanent Revolution: Istvan Kantor is an artist monograph published by the Kantor Collective (Linda Feesey, Mireille Bourgeois, Istvan Kantor), and is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
This project is based on Istvan Kantor’s film and video works of the past three decades (since 1979). The aim of this book is to bring attention to the lasting impact and influence of radical media art in Canada and abroad, by presenting Istvan Kantor’s artwork as an important platform through which to discuss politics in art.
This is the first major Canadian publication outlining Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin Amen's media art and performance work, including a great number of full color illustrations, outstanding essays by such brilliant writers as Mike Hoolboom, Lewis Kaye, Shannon Bell, Eszter Jagica, Mireille Bourgeois, and Kristine Stiles. It also includes an interview conducted by MOCCA director David Liss, and a selection of Kantor's own Neoist manifestos and autobiographical writings. Expert book editors Linda Feesey and Mireille Bourgeois incorporated a well researched bibliography together with lists of Kantor's selected media art works and major music works.
Istvan Kantor comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. He wasn’t born and he’ll never die. His main creative discipline is revolt. He turns blood into gold. His work is intellectually subversive, anti-authoritarian, as well as technically innovative and highly experimental.
Kantor’s work as a media artist dates back to the late 70s in Montreal where he began producing videos. Kantor was a new immigrant, only recently arriving from Budapest via Paris, and interested in the new developments of current artistic expression where video was the new form to be explored. His media art can be described as technology based media art, including video, interactive robotic machinery, kinetic sculpture, transmission machine, extended body, and hyper-noise.
