Manual for the Construction of a Cart as a Device to Elaborate Social Connection
Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Ken Ehrlich. Text by Octavio Camargo, Jennifer Gabrys.
The product of an international collective of artists, architects and writers who create collaborative projects and publications, this third edition of Surface Tension's Supplement series documents three years of artistic research, site-specific work and location-based practices in Curitiba, Brazil--providing an in-depth exploration of the city's economically marginal favela dwellers, who venture throughout the public spaces of Curitiba in search of recyclable materials. Documentation and texts elaborate on the cultural and political issues that come to light through various uses of public space. Originally developed as a collaborative installation between international and local artists--including Ken Ehrlich, Brandon LaBelle, Octávio Camargo and Guilherme Soares--exhibited at Curitiba's Ybakatu Gallery, this publication raises pertinent questions about the consequences of cross-cultural and site-specific collaboration and proffers an experimental approach toward political inquiry and intermedia practice.
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FROM THE BOOK
"The afternoon sun rests on the windowsill, he drinks water from a glass, and his girlfriend smiles; what the hell is happening the other thinks, as the smell of flowers flow through from the kitchen back door, ajar to the summer heat now in January. Where is this going he again wonders… And yet he knows, that this is what he wanted – the friction, the place of negotiation, the uncertainty and the doubt… This is generally about nothing else but the meeting, the possibility (or what Ines also mentioned to him the other day, in Berlin, with another summer heat (years later) falling from the sky in anticipated rain) – how might we locate a sense of political subjectivity in this disparate geography of cultural production?" Excerpt is from Brandon LaBelle's essay, Counterparts in Surface Tension Supplement No.3: Manual for the Construction of a Cart as a Device to Elaborate Social Connection.
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 70 pgs / illustrated throughout. LIST PRICE: U.S. $19.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $26.5 ISBN: 9780977259472 PUBLISHER: Errant Bodies Press AVAILABLE: 6/30/2009 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME
Surface Tension Supplement No. 3 Manual for the Construction of a Cart as a Device to Elaborate Social Connection
Published by Errant Bodies Press. Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Ken Ehrlich. Text by Octavio Camargo, Jennifer Gabrys.
The product of an international collective of artists, architects and writers who create collaborative projects and publications, this third edition of Surface Tension's Supplement series documents three years of artistic research, site-specific work and location-based practices in Curitiba, Brazil--providing an in-depth exploration of the city's economically marginal favela dwellers, who venture throughout the public spaces of Curitiba in search of recyclable materials. Documentation and texts elaborate on the cultural and political issues that come to light through various uses of public space. Originally developed as a collaborative installation between international and local artists--including Ken Ehrlich, Brandon LaBelle, Octávio Camargo and Guilherme Soares--exhibited at Curitiba's Ybakatu Gallery, this publication raises pertinent questions about the consequences of cross-cultural and site-specific collaboration and proffers an experimental approach toward political inquiry and intermedia practice.
