[{"id":15509,"title":"Vortices","dimensions":"17 x 11 cm, 96 p., language : English, publisher : Self-published, ISBN : N/A","date_begin":"2016-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/94","stream_count_app":9,"permalink":"vortices","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ciarán Walsh","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/123/large/Vortices.jpg?1489486689","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAn unnamed narrator recalls his time working at an institution with the Subject, a recent participant in an extreme sleep experiment that took place in a sealed-off cave, and which was commissioned in advance of the first manned space travel mission to a neighbouring planet. As the narrator\u0026rsquo;s encounter evolves, we learn of the Subject\u0026rsquo;s claim that during his time in the cave he experienced a quasi-mystical translocation to perplexing secondary location, a dark labyrinth populated by strange and confusing images and figures. Over the course of the book, political rumours and hints of conspiracy collect to undermine the narrator\u0026rsquo;s own understanding of the story he has found himself in.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe novella represents the end point of a period of artistic research into ideas of the Uncanny that relate to the space and dramaturgy of European ethnographic museums. The narrative and writing style of the novella develops my artistic strategies of communication breakdown, failure and interruption, and explores further ongoing themes of post-colonialism, institutional critique (specifically of the Museum), time travel, alienation before the Object, Otherness, and the functions of memory. The novella is understood as an autonomous artwork, an edition, which stands in relation to both the general body of research, and the other produced artworks from the research period.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ciaranwalsh.info/pages/vortices2016.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":15508,"title":"The Sickness, Book One","dimensions":"17 x 10 cm, 120 p., language : English, publisher : TFGC Publishing, ISBN : 978-3-00-055117-8","date_begin":"2017-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/95","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"the-sickness-book-one","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ciarán Walsh","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/119/large/The_Sickness.jpg?1489486284","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTaking place in the near-future scenario where an epidemic has spread out over the word, \u003cem\u003eThe Sickness\u003c/em\u003e catalogues the lives of four different characters in this literary world, and each character\u0026#39;s relation to the Sickness, as well as to a set of thematics including memory, image, authority, and the body. Book One explores the story of Alex Madden, a Serbian immigrant and actor who, having lost a younger brother to the Sickness several years before, begins to believe that the ghost of this brother is haunting him through details of scenery and scripts in the productions he works in. Madden is moved to explore both his memories and the available public records in an increasing desperate attempt to rediscover his half-forgotten brother and what might be at the root of the presumed haunting.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe novella is embedded in a developing stream of research related to themes of personal and collective memory and bodily presence and absence, and is understood as a separate artwork within this research, while operating in direct dialogue with other visual and sculptural works produced in the same period, the collective products composing variegated artistic knowledge. The narration within a work of fiction functions an effective matrix to collate and level-out various strands of research of varied provenance and calibre. Despite it autonomy, the borderlines of this novella-as-artwork and other artworks produced by me are porous. For example, a colliery Slovak edition of the first chapter was produced especially for the exhibition \u0026ldquo;Into the MU\u0026rdquo; (Kunsthalle Bratislava), and integrated into the sculpture \u0026ldquo;Exhibition Module for a Fictional Text\u0026rdquo;, which explored bodily position and readership.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://tfgc-publishing.com/archive/023\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]