Beatriz da Costa

<b>A long overdue look at the artistic investigations of the late artist Beatriz da Costa, revealing the depth and prescience of her work.</b><br><br><i>Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics</i> is the most comprehensive documentation and analysis to date of late artist Beatriz da Costa’s (1974–2012) groundbreaking work. As a retrospective of a brilliant young artist, it renders a social portrait of her artistic practice by both contextualizing the work in its historical period (late 1990s to early 2010s) and extending the work’s socio-political concerns to the present. The book, edited by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, features a collection of essays by curators, artists, and researchers from a variety of fields, including technoscience, tactical media, cancer research, environmental justice, performance art, and participatory art. It also includes a group of reflections written by former collaborators and close friends.<br><br>Beginning with da Costa’s early projects in the late 1990s as a student in the arts and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, the book surveys her collaborative work with<br>collectives Critical Art Ensemble and Preemptive Media, as well as her research-based<br>and large-scale installations made in the early 2000s. The publication is a faithful<br>record of da Costa’s entire oeuvre, including information about artworks she<br>left incomplete due to financial, health, or time limitations. Additionally, the book<br>includes da Costa’s own critical writing on art and politics, as well as self-authored<br>descriptions of her own work and an unflinching interview with cancer researcher Robert Schneider, who was a fundamental figure for da Costa at the end of her young life.<br><br>The book accompanies a solo exhibition at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of the Getty’s PST ART: <i>Art & Science Collide</i> initiative.