Description:Q5027

As part of her ongoing investigations into the forceful rhetoric played out within neo-liberal narratives of freedom in philosophy, politics, literature and popular culture, the artist has shifted her focus to the archetypal neo-liberal power base of Los Angeles. Sanity Assassin acts as a reader for a project that also exists in another form, as an eponymous three-channel video installation with a sculptural element. This book, published to coincide with the first showing of this work at Spike Island, Bristol in 2010, articulates a narrative through the art work in its research, construction and conclusion, with three informal parts bringing the images, texts and ideas through which the work was developed together with new points of discussion and reflection on the work's subject matter and contexts. Introduction by Marie-Anne McQuay; Texts by Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Amanda Beech, Suhail Malik, Ray Brassier, Robin Mackay.