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In relation to a Spectator:

Studio for Propositional Cinema - In relation to a Spectator:
A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.
A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals by various artists, In relation to a Spectator: was compiled by Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. In the opening text, Studio for Propositional Cinema—an artist collective founded in Düsseldorf in 2013—sets the context for the book's investigations into notions of the script, staging, and the conditions of the exhibition itself. Other contributions include Keren Cytter's rules and declarations for engaging life; Irena Haiduk and John Miller's ruminations on the nature of the image and of the cinematic, respectively; a series of missives to Kevin Spacey from Cally Spooner; and an “open letter” by Christopher Williams detailing the labor and material conditions that have furnished the walls on which his exhibitions have hung.
This book is part of an ensemble of structures related to the nature of presentation in the Kestner Gesellschaft exhibition. Visually connected in their ultra-gloss white surfaces, they are meant to be seen as intertwined sites for the display of objects, the reproduction of images, the staging of performances, and the transmission language through talks and conversations.
Anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema was founded in 2013 with a public call to action. Through language, actions, sounds, and images, through production, publication, exhibition, and fictions, they seek to reconfigure culture from a network of ideological formations into a dialogue of hypothetical gestures.
Contributions by Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Nicolás Gaugnini, Irena Haiduk, Madeline Hollander, Sarah Kürten, Jordan Lord, Carissa Rodriguez, Luzie Meyer, John Miller, Rachel Rose, Karin Schneider, Cally Spooner, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams.

Graphic design: Ronnie Fueglister.

Published with Kestner Gesellschaft ,Hannover, and A.P.E. (Art Projects Era).
 
published in February 2018
English edition
11,5 x 18 cm (softcover)
144 pages (4 b/w ill.)
 
18.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-95679-360-8
EAN : 9783956793608
 
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