[spectre] La conchita mon amour : the book

[Louise Desrenards]

Dear friends,


I am happy to announce the printed publication of the book from the work
that I appreciate so much by Christina McPhee :

"La conchita mon amour": catalog with essay and interview


http://www.lulu.com/content/457564

Quote:

La Conchita mon amour (2005-2006) is a site study by Christina
McPhee  of the aftermath of a deadly debris that occurred in 2005 in
the town of La Conchita, California, north of Los Angeles. The
project¹s beta launch at Sara Tecchia, New York, in October-November
2006, includes  photographic montages, video stills and drawings.
Together with images, artists essay and interview, this catalog also
anticipates the publication of the interactive online project, "La
Conchita mon amour" on New York's www.turbulence.org forthcoming from
November 7, 2006.  La Conchita remaps the problematic of living with
disaster in California in immediate, raw terms. Global warming
appears to be accelerating the danger. Without resources for healing
or leaving, La Conchita lives on in abandonment. McPhee's images
reach through obsessive layers of visual data towards an integration
beyond the material facts of the site. The large-scale images that
result from this process are topologies of absence and recovery.

Louise