[{"id":5280,"title":"Becoming Tarden","dimensions":"20.8 x 13.4 cm, 181 p, language: English, publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Print Craft, ISBN: N/A","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":10,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/837","stream_count_app":55,"permalink":"becoming-tarden","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/000/010/695/large/Artistnovel_060.jpg?1342085424","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The fairytale of the artist and the secret service just had to end badly\u0026quot; \u0026mdash;The Wall Street Journal. In 2005, Jill Magid was commissioned by the Dutch secret service (AIVD) to create a work that would \u0026quot;reveal the human face\u0026quot; of the organization. During the next three years she met with 18 agents who volunteered to be interviewed, but remained anonymous even to her. The project resulted in a variety of forms, among them her non-fiction novel, \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e. Forty percent of the manuscript was censored by the AIVD in 2008. After legal negotiations with the organization, Magid agreed to let it seize the uncensored body of the book after being exposed\u0026mdash;under glass and out of reach\u0026mdash;from her solo exhibition Authority to Remove at the Tate Modern in London, early 2010. The redacted paperback edition of \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e was published later that year.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Magid seeks intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems she chooses to work with\u0026mdash;such as police, CCTV, and in this case, secret services, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. The artist seeks the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility\u0026mdash; and, with all of this, their potential reversibility. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e is part of a larger body of works, The Spy Project. The Spy Project includes performance, prints, neon, sculpture, and video, and manifested over the course of four years, with some works responding and transforming based upon the Dutch secret service\u0026rsquo;s (legal) reaction to them. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e is Jill Magid\u0026rsquo;s third book; she recently published her fourth. The books are all related to a larger body of work, but all can function autonomously.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.becomingtarden.net\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Het sprookje van de kunstenaar en de geheime dienst moest wel slecht aflopen.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; The Wall Street Journal. In 2005 kreeg Jill Magid de opdracht van de Duitse geheime dienst (AIVD) om een werk te maken dat \u0026lsquo;het menselijk gezicht\u0026rsquo; van de organisatie zou tonen. De drie volgende jaren ontmoette ze achttien agenten die zich aanboden om te worden ge\u0026iuml;nterviewd, maar zelfs voor haar anoniem bleven. Het resultaat van dat project kwam in meerdere vormen, zoals haar non-fictieroman, \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e. Veertig procent van het manuscript werd door de AIVD gecensureerd in 2008. Na juridische onderhandelingen met de organisatie stond Magid toe dat het ongecensureerde deel van het boek werd in beslag genomen na te zijn tentoongesteld \u0026ndash; onder glas en buiten bereik \u0026ndash; op haar solotentoonstelling Authority to Remove in het Tate Modern in Londen, begin 2010. De geredigeerde paperbackversie van \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e werd later dat jaar uitgebracht.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Magid gaat op zoek naar intieme relaties tussen onpersoonlijke structuren. De systemen waar ze mee werkt \u0026ndash; zoals de politie en bewakingscamera\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ndash; functioneren met een afstand, met een groothoeklens, en ze maken iedereen gelijk en wissen het individu uit. De kunstenaar gaat op zoek naar de potenti\u0026euml;le zachtheid en intimiteit van hun technologie\u0026euml;n, de vergissing van hun alleswetende standpunt, de manieren waarop ze het geheugen bewaren (en toch neigen te vergeten), hun diepgewortelde positie in de maatschappij (de oorzaak voor hun onzichtbaarheid), hun autoriteit, hun ogenschijnlijke onaantastbaarheid \u0026ndash; en, met dit alles, de mogelijkheid om dat om te keren. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e maakt deel uit van een grotere groep werken, The Spy Project. Dat bevat performance, prints, neon, sculpturen, video en kwam tot stand in vier jaar tijd, met sommige werken die interageren en een antwoord formuleren op de (juridische) reactie van de Duitse geheime dienst tegen hen. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e is het derde boeke van Jill Magid, recent publiceerde ze haar vierde. De boeken maken allemaal deel uit van een groter geheel, maar kunnen autonoom functioneren.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.becomingtarden.net\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5864,"title":"One Cycle of Memory in the City of L","dimensions":"21 x 14.5 cm, 100 p, language: English, publisher: South Korea: Jill Magid/Icheon Women Artists' Biennale, Self-Publishing, ISBN: N/A","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":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/170","stream_count_app":29,"permalink":"one-cycle-of-memory-in-the-city-of-l","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/000/012/910/large/evibert_20121015_102426_001.jpg?1350291208","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the city of Liverpool, there are 242 CCTV cameras monitored by CITYWATCH, a joint operation of Merseyside Police and City Council, from within an unmarked control room, located in the city center. CCTV footage obtained from these cameras is kept for 31 days, after which this footage is erased, unless pulled out as evidence. Pulled footage is kept for a minimum of seven years in an Evidence Locker\u0026mdash; a digital record stored in the CCTV stations\u0026#39; main IBM computer. Magid stayed in Liverpool for 31 days to work with the police to create her own evidence locker. This locker, filmed entirely by the police, has over 35 entries, containing over 11 hours of video footage. For access to this footage, Magid had to submit 31 Subject Access Request Forms \u0026mdash; the legal document necessary to outline to the police details of how and when an \u0026#39;incident\u0026#39; occurred. Magid chose to complete these forms as though they were letters to a lover, expressing how she was feeling and what she was thinking. These \u0026#39;letters\u0026#39; form the novella \u003cem\u003eOne Cycle of Memory in the City of L \u003c/em\u003e\u0026mdash; an intimate portrait of the relationship between herself, the police and the city.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Magid created a website from which it is possible to sign in to receive the book in 31 installments via email: \u0026ldquo;Evidence will be delivered to you in 31 installments via your private email account. All material is confidential, intending to be viewed by you alone. Others wishing access must apply for it, as you are doing here\u0026rdquo;. Jill Magid seeks intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems she chooses to work with \u0026mdash;such as police and CCTV, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. The artist seeks the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility\u0026mdash; and, with all of this, their potential reversibility.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.evidencelocker.net/story.php\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn de stad Liverpool hangen 242 veiligheidscamera\u0026rsquo;s die worden gemonitord door CITYWATCH, een samenwerking tussen de politie van Merseyside en het stadsbestuur, vanuit een niet aangegeven controlekamer, ergens in het stadscentrum. De beelden van die camera\u0026rsquo;s worden 31 dagen lang bewaard \u0026ndash; daarna wordt het materiaal gewist, tenzij het wordt opgevraagd als bewijsstuk. Opgevraagd beeldmateriaal wordt minimum zeven jaar lang bewaard in een \u0026lsquo;Evidence Locker\u0026rsquo;, een digitaal bestand in de centrale IBM-computer. Magid verbleef 31 dagen lang in Liverpool om met de politie te werken en haar eigen \u0026lsquo;bewijskluis\u0026rsquo; te cre\u0026euml;ren. Die kluis met beeldmateriaal van de politie bevat meer dan 35 items, met meer dan elf uur beeldmateriaal. Voor toegang tot het beeldmateriaal moest Magid 31 aanvragen indienen, wettelijke documenten die de politie details verschaffen over het \u0026lsquo;hoe\u0026rsquo; en \u0026lsquo;waarom\u0026rsquo; van een \u0026lsquo;incident\u0026rsquo;. Magid koos ervoor om deze formulieren in te vullen alsof het om liefdesbrieven ging, en ze vertelde hoe ze zich voelde en wat er door haar hoofd ging. Die \u0026lsquo;brieven\u0026rsquo; vormen de novelle \u003cem\u003eOne Cycle of Memory in the City of L\u003c/em\u003e, een intiem portret van de relatie tussen haarzelf, de politie en de stad.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Magid cre\u0026euml;erde een website waarop men kan inschrijven om het boek via e-mail te ontvangen in 31 afleveringen: \u0026quot;Bewijs wordt u geleverd in 31 afleveringen via uw priv\u0026eacute;-e-mailadres. Al het materiaal is vertrouwelijk, bedoeld om alleen door u te worden gezien. Wanneer anderen er toegang toe willen, moeten zij een aanvraag indienen, net als u\u0026quot;. Jill Magid gaat op zoek naar intieme relaties tussen onpersoonlijke structuren. De systemen waar ze mee werkt \u0026ndash; zoals de politie en bewakingscamera\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ndash; functioneren met een afstand, met een groothoeklens, en ze maken iedereen gelijk en wissen het individu uit. De kunstenaar gaat op zoek naar de potenti\u0026euml;le zachtheid en intimiteit van hun technologie\u0026euml;n, de vergissing van hun alleswetende standpunt, de manieren waarop ze het geheugen bewaren (en toch neigen te vergeten), hun diepgewortelde positie in de maatschappij (de oorzaak voor hun onzichtbaarheid), hun autoriteit, hun ogenschijnlijke onaantastbaarheid \u0026ndash; en, met dit alles, de mogelijkheid om dat om te keren.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.evidencelocker.net/story.php\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5865,"title":"Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy","dimensions":"21 x 14.6 cm, 64 p, language: English, publisher: Self-Published, ISBN: N/A","date_begin":"2007-01-01","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":"","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"lincoln-ocean-victor-eddy","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/000/012/921/large/JM2007booklincolnvictory400.jpg?1350295783","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e\r\n\r\n\"Ms. Magid's impressive New York debut includes *Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy*, a video and series of photographs accompanied by a haunting novella. All record her five-month friendship with a New York City police officer. She initiated it by asking him to search her (he didn't) and then shadowing him during his night shift, usually on subway platforms in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The best part of the work is the quietly heart-rending novella, a kind of tunnel vision of two people moving along parallel tracks while the city hums around them. The relationship is never consummated, but Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy spells love.\" —The New York Times\r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist’s practice\u003c/b\u003e\r\n\r\nJill Magid created an installation that toured throughout a number of international venues. The installation includes combinations of materials and media created and collected during her training with the officer: digital photographs; sound recordings; CCTV video; objects; posters; drawings; and the novella *Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy*. As an installation, visitors are welcome to enter the story as an audiovisual experience and view original artifacts.\r\n\r\n*Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy* is also presented before a live audience as a performance, adapted from the black book in mainly dialogue form. It offers a temporary face and voice to our undisclosed officer. As an audience member, you're invited to witness Jill Magid and actor Ed Vas perform the story as part theatrical rendition, and part poetry reading. From the artist’s website it is possible to take the story as a podcast, which is adapted from the novella as part narrative, part dialogue. Performed also by Jill Magid and actor Ed Vas, the podcast is an intimate story-on-the-go, perfect for your next subway commute.\r\n\r\n[Novel website](http://www.lincoln-ocean-victor-eddy.net/Novella/)"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cb\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/b\u003e\r\n\r\n'' *Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy* is het indrukwekkende debuut van mevrouw Magid in New York. Het is een video en een reeks foto’s die worden vergezeld van een beklijvende novelle: allemaal documentatie van haar vijf maanden durende vriendschap met een agent van de New Yorkse stadspolitie. Ze ging de vriendschap aan door hem te vragen om haar te fouilleren – wat hij niet deed – en hem vervolgens te schaduwen tijdens zijn nachtshift, doorgaans op metroperrons in Manhattan en Brooklyn. Het beste deel van het werk is de stilletjes hartverscheurende novelle, een soort tunnelvisie van twee mensen die langs parallelle sporen lopen terwijl de stad om hen heen gonst. De relatie wordt nooit geconsumeerd, maar Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy schreeuwt liefde.'' - The New York Times\r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/b\u003e\r\n\r\nDe installatie van Jill Magid toerde langs verschillende internationale plaatsen en bevat combinaties van materialen en media die ze creëerde en verzamelde tijdens haar training met een politie-agent. Digitale foto’s, geluidsopnames, CCTV-beelden, voorwerpen, affiches, tekeningen en de novelle *Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy*. In de installatie zijn bezoekers welkom om het verhaal binnen te wandelen als een audiovisuele ervaring en de originele artefacten te zien.\r\n\r\n*Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy* wordt ook getoond als een performance voor een livepubliek, in een aangepaste versie van het zwarte boek met hoofdzakelijk dialogen. Het verleent een tijdelijk gezicht en een stem aan onze niet-geïdentificeerde officier. Het publiek wordt uitgenodigd om te getuigen hoe Jill Magid en de acteur Ed Vas het verhaal spelen als deels een theatrale uitvoering, deels pöezievoordracht. Op de website van de kunstenaar is het mogelijk om het verhaal als podcast te downloaden, een adaptatie van de novelle als deels verhaal, deels dialoog. De podcast is uitgevoerd door Jill Magid en Ed Vas, een intiem verhaal voor onderweg, perfect voor metropendelaars.\r\n\r\n[Novel website](http://www.lincoln-ocean-victor-eddy.net/Novella/)"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5866,"title":"Failed States","dimensions":"20.6 x 14.5 cm, 129 p, language: English, publisher: Hasselt/Los Angeles/Bucharest/Stockholm: Z33/Honor Fraser Gallery/Bucharest Biennial 5/Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, ISBN: 9781935662044","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/169","stream_count_app":40,"permalink":"failed-states","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/000/012/908/large/evibert_20121015_102450_001.jpg?1350290739","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power. While on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, artist Jill Magid witnesses a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. Twenty-four year old Fausto Cardenas fires several rounds in the air before being arrested. The event becomes the background against which Magid, under the guidance of CT \u0026ndash;editor at the Texas Observer and former embedded war correspondent for AP- starts her training to become an embedded journalist with the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Magid\u0026#39;s non-fiction novel \u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e approaches the themes of transparency, secrecy and publicity through her personal desire to engage the war on terror and its media representation through becoming an eyewitness.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e is also the title of a mixed media installation, which consists of multiple pieces, such as sculptural components, prints, video, and sound pieces. Magid mines Faust for thematic connections and develops a means of performative exhibition, treating the gallery as a stage to be read. Although Faust was originally written as a \u0026quot;closet drama\u0026quot; \u0026mdash;a play to be read rather than performed, it is regularly seen on stage. Similarly, the motivations behind Fausto\u0026#39;s act are known only to him, yet they have played out on an extraordinary scale. The exhibition functions on both of these levels, mingling personal and public, fact and fiction, Fausto and Faust. The artist extends \u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e beyond the gallery with two offsite projects. Failed States, the work from which this exhibition takes its names, was Magid\u0026#39;s family car. The artist had her 1993 Mercedes station wagon armored to B4 level, resistant to 9mm through .44 Magnum gun fire. The car is an invisibly armored closet, installed where Fausto parked his car before approaching the Capitol. There is also a sound piece (plays on car stereo): The Deed, 6 channel audio work. Magid also published a work in the February issue of the political magazine Texas Observer, further extending her reach into the domestic spaces of subscribers.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.jillmagid.net/FailedStates_ArmoredCar.php\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e is een verkenning van toeval en po\u0026euml;zie temidden van de obstakels en bureaucratie van staatsmacht. Op een reis om de geschiedenis van scherpschutters na te gaan in Austin, Texas, is Jill Magid getuige van een mysterieuze schietpartij op de trappen van State Capitol. De 24-jarige Fausto Cardenas vuurt verschillende keren in de lucht voor hij wordt gearresteerd. Die gebeurtenis vormt de achtergrond voor de start van Magids training om een \u0026lsquo;embedded journalist\u0026rsquo; te worden in het Amerikaanse leger in Afghanistan, onder begeleiding van een redacteur bij Texas Observer en een vroegere oorlogscorrespondent voor het persbureau AP. Magids non-fictieroman \u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e behandelt de thema\u0026rsquo;s van transparantie, geheimhouding en publiciteit aan de hand van haar persoonlijke verlangen om deel te nemen aan de \u0026lsquo;war on terror\u0026rsquo; en de weergave ervan in de media door een ooggetuige te worden.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFailed States\u003c/em\u003e is eveneens de titel van een installatie die bestaat uit meerdere stukken met gemengde technieken, zoals sculpturale onderdelen, prints, video en geluidsfragmenten. Magid put uit Faust voor thematische verbanden en ontwikkelt een performatieve tentoonstelling door de galerie te benaderen als een podium om te lezen. Hoewel Faust oorspronkelijk werd geschreven als een \u0026lsquo;leesdrama\u0026rsquo; \u0026ndash; een toneelstuk om gelezen te worden in plaats van opgevoerd \u0026ndash; is het regelmatig op het podium te zien. Parallel daaraan zijn de motivaties voor Fausto\u0026rsquo;s daad alleen bij hem bekend, maar hebben ze toch een uitzonderlijke schaal aangenomen. De tentoonstelling functioneert op beide niveaus en mixt het persoonlijke met het publieke, feit met fictie, Fausto met Faust. De kunstenaar breekt met \u003cem\u003eFailed States \u003c/em\u003eook uit de galerie met twee zijprojecten. Failed States, het werk waar de tentoonstelling zijn naam vandaan haalt, was Magids gezinsauto. De kunstenaar had haar Mercedes uit 1993 beschermd tot B4-niveau, weerstand biedend aan kogels van 9 mm uit een .44 Magnum. De auto is een onzichtbare gewapende kist, ge\u0026iuml;nstalleerd waar Fausto zijn auto parkeerde voor hij het Capitol benaderde. Er is ook een audiowerk dat speelt op de autoradio: The Deed, een audiowerk voor zes kanalen. Magid leverde ook een bijdrage aan het februarinummer van het politieke tijdschrift Texas Observer, waarmee ze haar werk tot in de huiskamers van de abonnees bracht.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.jillmagid.net/FailedStates_ArmoredCar.php\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":17024,"title":"Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy","dimensions":"Copy, with permission by the artist, of the book that is out of print, 54 p., language : English, colophon on the back side","date_begin":"2007-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/888","stream_count_app":24,"permalink":"lincoln-ocean-victor-eddy-e845f3df-1af6-4c76-8338-aa7541847809","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":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/037/732/medium_500/20171020085904170_0001.jpg?1508495025","cached_actor_names":"Jill Magid","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/000/037/732/large/20171020085904170_0001.jpg?1508495025","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2007 Jill Magid came back to New York City after living five years abroad. She rented an apartment in Brooklyn and took the subway often. Everyone was in transit, except the officers. She approached one and asked him to search her. She began to accompany this officer on many of his nighttime posts. He was not sure if he could trust her, and she was not sure if she should trust him. They continued to meet despite this. Magid kept record of their meetings and logged them in different forms.\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\u003eJill Magid created a multimedia installation including video, prints, photographs, sculpture, sound, and her artist\u0026#39;s novel \u003cem\u003eLincoln Ocean Victor Eddy\u003c/em\u003e (police code for \u0026#39;love\u0026#39;). The project was exhibited at Gagosian Gallery (27 June\u0026ndash;24 August 2007).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.jillmagid.com/projects/lincoln-ocean-victor-eddy\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]