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The series hosts conversations with artists who work at the intersection of publishing and exhibition-making: through circulation, dissemination, spamming, dispersion, print, data, language, infection, fashion, networks, disturbance, myth, parasiting, and infiltration.
Edited by Adam Gibbons and Eva Wilson
Published by NERO, La Becque Editions and Kunstverein München
Designed by HIT
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07 ABBAS ZAHEDI AND EVA WILSON
What happens if we think of the space of art as a living body?
Abbas Zahedi became an artist by way of a medical education, a philosophy symposium in a chip shop, community organising, and ‘Dissociative Realism’, as described in an essay by Arsalan Isa. With Eva Wilson, Zahedi explores translation and transplatation as frameworks that allow us to understand ourselves in relation to others — as life-support systems to counter the erosion of identity through trauma.
Read moreISBN: 978-88-8056-206-1
06 TYLER COBURN AND ADAM GIBBONS
In the autumn of 2017, Tyler Coburn and Adam Gibbons began a conversation about Ergonomic Futures, Coburn’s furniture for humans to come. What unfolded is a chimera: a hybrid, at once mythic and mundane, of a parasite, an institution, a brisk back-and-forth, a protracted exchange, a monster, a factory, two monologues, many emails — a text assembled amid births and passings, across countries and time zones, and in the minutes claimed between jobs.
Read moreISBN: 978-88-8056-078-4
05 BADLANDS UNLIMITED (ACT I) BY BADLANDS UNLIMITED
Badlands Unlimited (Act 1) is the first act of a three-act play written by Badlands Unlimited. Set behind the scenes of an artist-run, New York-based publishing company, the play follows the characters as they launch an erotic novella, deal with internal conflicts, and imagine the promise and threat of technology between the pages and in our lives. Badlands Unlimited (Act 1) is a comedy of errors that morphs into a deeper meditation on art and mortality.
Read moreISBN: 978-88-8056-013-5
04 INTERNAL AFFAIRS 2013 - 2018 BY GCC
GCC is an acronym that does not stand for but alludes to the Gulf Cooperation Council, the intergovernmental political and economic partnership that connects six countries in the region. The artist ‘delegation’ or collective GCC was formed in 2013. Its eight members, all of whom have close ties to the Arabian Gulf, are scattered across the globe. Internal Affairs is a collection of selected images and conversations from GCC’s five-year WhatsApp archive.
Read moreISBN: 978-88-8056-014-2
03 BECKY BEASLEY AND CLAIRE SCANLON
Around 1999, artist Becky Beasley began writing to her former tutor, Claire Scanlon, who kept her letters but never replied. Years later, in 2016, the two began to intermittently record their conversations, now as friends. Here they discuss their ‘components of practice’, which are as mundane as they are existential: space, time, literature, resistance, clarity, ambiguity, burrowing, parenthood, depression, and German Soup.
Read moreISBN: 978-88-8056-074-6
02 JAMES HOFF AND MARIAN KAISER
In a white cottage at the edge of what is often mistakenly referred to as the Vigeland Park, Oslo, in early January 2016, artist James Hoff and writer Marian Kaiser discuss sounds, images, language, and the events that produce them: distribution channels; anecdotes; heavenly rays; Stuxnet; ghosting; feedback; riots; mission creep; Amok as a colonial construction. How did the culture-bound syndrome cross the Atlantic? Is the book still the endgame?
Read moreISBN: 978-88-8056-012-8
00 OTHER ACTIVITIES
Launches, events, readings, workshops, residencies.
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