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7 1/2 inch × 10 inch plastic jacket containing two 7 1/2 inch × 10 inch softcover books 
112 pages each 
ISBN 978-1-941753-30-9

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“I’m interested in the artists’ attempt to map their world, to order and make sense of it. This activity is not exclusive to artists; people do it constantly to find some relationships to abstractions, global events, invisible machinations of finance and those decisions that affect the future of the world.” —Mark Lombardi 

Strange Attractor takes its name from the tendency of vibrant patterns to emerge from non-linear, unpredictable systems. Expanding on ideas and connections forged in the 2017 Ballroom Marfa exhibition of the same name, Strange Attractor explores the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, technology, and sound. 

Rue brings together artists and practitioners from a variety of fields to converse on the stochastic topological dynamics of lived existence. The topic of sound pervades the book, as leitmotif in a web of increasingly complex relationships between systems, revealing a backdrop of socio-political power, transmigration, and asylum.

Contributors include: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horwitz, Lucky Dragons (Luke Fishbeck and Sara Rara), Mark Lombardi, Herbert Matter, Haroon Mirza, Elias Sime, and Douglas Ross, as well as conversations between tropical ecologist Merlin Sheldrake, novelist Chloe Aridjis, and economic sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, as well as texts by media art historian Douglas Kahn and poet Bernadette Mayer.


Strange Attractor – the exhibition – Ballroom Marfa Select Press

2017. PBS
2017. Flash Art
2017. Artnet
2017. Marfa Public Radio
2017. The Cusp
2017. Glasstire
2017. The Irish Times
2017. The Poleax
2017. Aquarium Drunkard
2017. The Art Newspaper
2017. Creative Disturbance
2015. The Art Newspaper

Read more about this exhibition in the following publications:

Strange Attractor Exhibition Guide |
The Strange Attractor Reader |
“Calder and Sound”

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