[{"id":7923,"title":"The Velvet Grind","dimensions":"21 cm x 14.9 cm, 319 p, language: English, publisher: Zürich/Dijon: JRP/Ringier/Les presses du réel, ISBN: 3-905701-02-2","date_begin":"2006-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/626","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"the-velvet-grind","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"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/000/017/869/large/3.Velvet_Grind_cover_copy.jpg?1373547447","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compilation of non-fiction and fiction, the book has been structured by the artist with the subtle psychological and emotional rewards of the novel in mind.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen in 1981 David Robbins first began publishing his writing he sensed that the subject matter which fascinated him--the convergence of the art and entertainment contexts, one of the main cultural stories of our time--would take many years to work through; at that time the book that eventually became \u003cem\u003eThe Velvet Grind\u003c/em\u003e began to take form in his mind. During the next two decades whenever Robbins identified or accepted a new writing project, whatever its form--interview, essay, satire--he had in mind that he was constructing a single cohesive volume. The form finally chosen, \u003cem\u003eThe Velvet Grind\u003c/em\u003e, is consciously organized as a kind of picaresque novel chronicling the author\u0026rsquo;s psychological and emotional journey through the realm of image makers.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7930,"title":"The Ice Cream Social","dimensions":"16.4 cm x 10.9 cm, 78 p, language: English, publisher: Zürich: JRP/Ringier, ISBN: 2-940271-55-0","date_begin":"2004-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":8,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/643","stream_count_app":27,"permalink":"the-ice-cream-social","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"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/000/017/870/large/scannen0006.jpg?1371452253","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile eating ice cream in a Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Parlor (an actual ice cream chain originating in the 1950s), Mark Baskin has an ecstatic vision of Americana. Weeks later, at that same location, in a piece of theater involving a painting based on the Baskin-Robbins shops design motif-- pink and brown dots on a white field--he updates the American tradition of the ice cream social for an audience of friends and strangers. In attendance is Trace Weaver, partner in the influential entertainment think-tank Quid Pro Quo. Weaver has her own vision: a TV show, a fusion of talk show, ensemble comedy, and dance party, developing from the ideas packed into Baskin\u0026rsquo;s theatrical gesture. A production deal is struck between the two, and the last third of the book relates, in meticulous detail, the look, sound, and feel of The Ice Cream Social TV show.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpdating a traditional small-town American social ritual for contemporary audiences, The Ice Cream Social (1993-2008) premiered in a Manhattan Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream shop in 1993, gradually expanding over the next 15 years to include (in Ice Cream Socials in Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, London, Pittsburgh, Des Moines) performance, installation, poetry, painting, a 2002 TV pilot for the Sundance Channel, fridge magnets, ceramic bowls and a novella. The Ice Cream Social project was David Robbins\u0026rsquo; bridge out of the narrow concerns of the art context and into a wider, more independent application of imagination.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]