Pierre Huyghe & Douglas Coupland: School Spirit
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In Collaboration with Douglas Coupland.
The first in a new series from Dis Voir, Encounters asks a well-known contemporary artist to decide which subjects he or she wants to discuss in their book. Each artist's book therefore offers a specific experience in terms of content. In accordance with this principle, each artist also selects a person--due to certain elective affinities--with whom he or she would like to share this exchange. At the very least, the resulting collaborative volumes serve as an artistic and political laboratory of the present. In this first installment, French artist Pierre Huyghe chooses to encounter Canadian writer Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, because of the influence Coupland has had on his generation and on Huyghe's own work. Together they discuss the construction of characters, of narrative techniques based on chance, and the political dimension present in Coupland's work--themes that are also fundamental questions on Huyghe's projects. Usuing a high school yearbook as the framework for a meditataion on memory.
PUBLISHED BY: Dis Voir
FORMAT: Paperback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs / 25 color / 25 b&w.
ISBN: 9782914563079 ISBN10: 2914563078
PUBLICATION DATE: 10/02/2002
AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.
Bookseller Price Code: TRADE
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