[{"id":5342,"title":"The Dark Object","dimensions":"13.1 x 19.4 cm, 117 p, language: English (UK), publisher: Book Works, ISBN: 978 1 906012 22 9","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":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/842","stream_count_app":40,"permalink":"the-dark-object","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":"Katrina Palmer","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/000/010/636/large/Artistnovel_065.jpg?1342079077","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003eexploits sculpture\u0026rsquo;s awkward relationship with conceptualism through the pseudo-conceptual ideology of a fictional institution. The Rector\u0026rsquo;s paranoid ideology has prohibited the making of objects, one student remains. Increasingly isolated in The School of Sculpture Without Objects and battling with institutional directives and solitary confinement, Addison Cole exercises the prohibition on making things by writing stories, in which the protagonists only meet through the creation of fantasy scenarios. These narrate a series of explicit encounters with texts, objects and artists. Authorial figures are reduced to their pornographic effect: Slavoj Žižek becomes an impotent sexual metaphor, Hegel a skeletal spectre, the anonymous \u0026lsquo;Jay\u0026rsquo;, Žižek\u0026rsquo;s lactating Oedipal fantasy, the Rector a scrofulous, paranoid leech.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst studying for her PhD in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, Katrina submitted samples of her writing to Book Works open submission series, Semina, commissioned by Stewart Home. When this submission was accepted the text was drawn into two separate formulations: \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003e, and then the thesis. As a consequence, certain sections of \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003e appear, in an abstracted form, in the thesis. Part of the rationale of \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003e, is that it operates in the everyday as a novel in bookshops and on invigilation desks, but it is also research, and an artwork, so in this sense, like a found object, it should move between appearing as art and disappearing as an ordinary thing in the everyday.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bookworks.org.uk/node/153\"\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\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003ehanteert een pseudo-conceptuele ideologie van een fictief instituut om de bizarre relatie bloot te leggen tussen beeldhouwwerken en conceptualisme. De parano\u0026iuml;de ideologie van The Rector heeft het maken van objecten verboden \u0026ndash; en slechts \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n student blijft over. Addison Cole raakt almaar verder ge\u0026iuml;soleerd in The School of Sculpture Without Objects en worstelt met institutionele richtlijnen en eenzame opsluiting. Hij volgt het verbod door dingen te maken met het schrijven van teksten, waarin de hoofdpersonages elkaar alleen ontmoeten door fantastische scenario\u0026rsquo;s te bedenken. Die scenario\u0026rsquo;s gaan over een aantal expliciete aanrakingen met teksten, voorwerpen en kunstenaars. Autoriteiten worden herleid tot hun pornografische effect: Slavoj Zizek wordt een impotente seksuele metafoor, Hegel een spook, de anonieme \u0026lsquo;Jay\u0026rsquo;, Zizeks zogende Oedipusfantasie, de Rector wordt een klierachtige, parano\u0026iuml;de bloedzuiger.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTijdens haar studie voor een PhD in Beeldhouwwerken aan de Royal College of Art stuurde Katrina uittreksels van haar schrijfwerk in naar Semina van Book Works, onder leiding van Stewart Home. Bij aanvaarding van de inzending werd de tekst in twee afzonderlijke formuleringen getrokken: \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003e, en de thesis. Een gevolg daarvan is dat bepaalde stukken uit \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003e in een meer abstracte vorm ook in de thesis zijn beland. Inherent aan de grondgedachte van \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object \u003c/em\u003e is dat het in het alledaagse functioneert als een roman in boekenwinkels en op surveillance-bureau\u0026rsquo;s, maar dat het tegelijk ook research is, en een kunstwerk, en dus als een gevonden voorwerp moet verschijnen als kunst en verdwijnen als een gewoon voorwerp in een alledaagse context.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bookworks.org.uk/node/153\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":12329,"title":"The Fabricator's Tale","dimensions":"17,6 x 10,8 cm, 200 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works, ISBN: 978 1 906012 51 9","date_begin":"2014-01-01","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 2027/53","stream_count_app":9,"permalink":"the-fabricator-s-tale","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/000/026/349/large/The_fabricators_tale.jpg?1418827958","poster_credits":"Book Works","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e14.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, in a new work by the author of \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/5342\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dark Object\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, a series of tense and violent short stories are intertwined to form a narrative whole \u0026ndash; a collection, with a twisted narrative structure, that parodies the form of a novel. When the protagonist, the dysfunctional Reality Flickers, meets the psychotic Heart Beast (aka the fucker), death sex and sculpture collide in the stories that form \u003cem\u003eThe Fabricator\u0026rsquo;s Tale\u003c/em\u003e. Palmer\u0026rsquo;s misanthropic characters are embedded within their own obsession with objects, with exposure, voyeurism, and the sexualised abuse of power, and appear to exist in a highly dysfunctional world, that parodies, and replicates both the conditions of art, and its place in contemporary society. This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract, and often disturbingly violent stories, featuring nameless characters that expose the repressed tension between the animate and inanimate, the sick malaise of contemporary life, and the cracking points of human subjectivity.\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\u003eDr. Sinclair\u0026rsquo;s Drawer\u003c/em\u003e is an exhibition produced by Book Works and Flat Time House with artist Katrina Palmer. The exhibition comprises writing, sound recordings, video, sculpture and printed matter. The use of language as material extends to the performative relation between writer and reader, where the reader is inculcated into the process through either private reading and listening or in live, public performance.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1822\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1823\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website2 \u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]