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出版MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, 2015
ISBN607025175X9786070251757
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vEKIAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Deller's critical reflection on English culture (its historical contradictions and politics, as well as its identity as a post-industrial and multicultural society) provides a global analysis that traverses both time and borders. As the artist states: "I am careful not to reveal my own opinions too forcefully. Obviously, in composing an artwork, you do reveal something, but I do not want to make a political work in the same way an activist would. I want to grant it a bit more poetry, a bit more space, so that the public can get involved... I want to leave a little room for thought and not tell the viewers what to think." Historical events appear, for example, in Deller's The Battle of Orgreave, which reenacts the struggle of British miners and their confrontation with police forces in the 1980s, or in his video on Adrian Street, which portrays a British miner who became a transvestite wrestler. In the curators' words: "If Deller's work takes shape as a multifaceted process of investigation, it is because it belongs to the rich history of the observers, critics, and thinkers of industrial society."