This is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to New York and San Franciscobased artist Rene Green. Over the past 20 years through film video sound art photographs prints banners texts websites and ephemera Greens work has comprised complex multilayered archivelike installations employing a vast array of sources which always urge viewers to become active participants. Included in this superbly illustrated volume are newly commissioned essays by a host of esteemed media scholars art historians critics and curatorsNora Alter Diedrich Diederichsen Kobena Mercer Catherine Quloz Gloria Sutton and Elvan Zabunyanwho engage issues central to Greens oeuvre such as genealogy archives and their reworkings movements and displacements site specificity and location.