[{"id":5317,"title":"Macht und Rebel - Skandinavische Misanthropie II","dimensions":"18.6 x 11.7 cm, 348 p, language: German, publisher: München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, ISBN: 978-3453675209","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":"B 2024/679","stream_count_app":27,"permalink":"macht-und-rebel-skandinavische-misanthropie-ii","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,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/661/large/Artistnovel_017.jpg?1342081540","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes Scandinavian misanthropy particular? According to Matias Faldbakken, it is the particular mixture of a welfare state, high standards of living, modern corporate culture, consumer ideology and a society that not only is tolerant, but downright benevolent towards its own opponents and deviators from the norm. The Scandinavia of Faldbakken is a place of early adaptors \u0026ndash; pure heaven if you\u0026rsquo;re in the world of marketing and want to test new consumer products, new strategies, new cultural habits and new ideologies. Only, there are no ideologies left according to Faldbakken. In the world that he depicts, talk is cheap, nothing is shocking and perversion is the norm. In short, anything goes. The second novel of Matias Faldbakken takes the nihilistic satire from his first novel to yet another level. In \u003cem\u003eMacht und Rebel - Scandinavian Misanthropy II,\u003c/em\u003e Faldbakken shows a world where all choices are fakes and the inescapable poverty is the absolute loss of values. There is simply nothing to rebel against. This time, Faldbakken takes on the counter-culture as prime target for his satire.\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\u003eScandinavian Misanthropy Trilogy\u003c/em\u003e\u0026rsquo;s protagonists struggle with postmillennial phenomena such as the \u0026lsquo;coffee-tableization of everything\u0026rsquo; or the idea of the \u0026lsquo;survival of the hippest,\u0026rsquo; and an unhealthy amount of hatred for everything around them. This vicious circle of the subversive \u0026ndash; each critique in the cultural field being not only immediately absorbed but also turned into a cultural good, and therefore soon tuning into the mainstream \u0026ndash; is also part of his topoi as a visual artist. His non-literary works also deal with the chasm between mainstream and underground, independence and commerciality, and the possibilities of an intervention of the artist and his utopias in the real world.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWat is er eigen aan de Scandinavische misantropie? Volgens Matias Faldbakken is het de typische combinatie van welvaartsstaat, hoge levensstandaard, monderne bedrijfscultuur, consumptie-ideologie en een samenleving die niet alleen tolerant is, maar zelfs ronduit welwillend tegenover zijn vijanden en zij die afwijken van de norm. Het Scandinavi\u0026euml; van Faldbakken is een plek van \u0026lsquo;early adaptors\u0026rsquo; \u0026ndash; de hemel voor al wie in de marketing zit en nieuwe consumptiegoederen wil uittesten, nieuwe strategie\u0026euml;n, nieuwe culturele gewoontes, nieuwe ideologie\u0026euml;n. Alleen: er zijn geen ideologie\u0026euml;n meer, vindt Faldbakken. In zijn wereld is praat goedkoop, niets choquerend en perversie de norm. Kortweg: alles kan. De tweede roman van Matias Faldbakken tilt de nihilistische satire van de eerste roman naar een hoger niveau. In \u003cem\u003eMacht und Rebel \u0026ndash; Skandinavisk misantropi II \u003c/em\u003etoont Faldbakken een wereld waar alle keuzes vals zijn en waar het absolute verlies aan waarden een onontkoombare armoede is. Er is eenvoudigweg niets om tegen te rebelleren. Deze keer neemt Faldbakken de tegencultuur tot hoofddoel voor zijn satire.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe hoofdpersonages van de trilogie\u003cem\u003e Skandinavisk misantropi\u003c/em\u003e worstelen met postmillennium-fenomenen zoals de \u0026lsquo;koffietafelisering van alles\u0026rsquo; of het concept van de \u0026lsquo;survival of the hippest\u0026rsquo;, en een ongezonde dosis haat tegenover alles om hen heen. Ook in zijn werk als beeldend kunstenaar is het een van zijn topoi: de vicieuze cirkel van het subversieve, waarbij elke kritiek in het culturele veld niet alleen onmiddelijk wordt geabsorbeerd, maar ook op zijn beurt wordt omgezet in een cultureel product, en zo in de mainstream belandt. Ook zijn niet-literaire werk gaat over de kloof tussen mainstream en underground, onafhankelijkheid en commercie, en de mogelijkheden voor een tussenkomst van een kunstenaar en zijn utopie\u0026euml;n in de echte wereld.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5340,"title":"The Cocka Hola Company - Skandinavische Misanthropie I","dimensions":"18.6 x 11.7 cm, 461 p, language: German, publisher: München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, ISBN: 978-3453400528","date_begin":"2005-01-01","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 2024/680","stream_count_app":26,"permalink":"the-cocka-hola-company-skandinavische-misanthropie-i","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,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/638/large/Artistnovel_027.jpg?1342079255","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debut novel of Norwegian writer Matias Faldbakken is a contemporary satire to end all satires. \u003cem\u003eThe Cocka Hola Company\u003c/em\u003e (first novel of the series \u003cem\u003eScandinavian Misanthropy Trilogy\u003c/em\u003e) is the ferociously funny chronicle of a war against the welfare society and its underlying values. Relying on most people\u0026rsquo;s inherent hypocrisy and double standards, Simpel and his band of social misfits to stage a series of equally amusing and revealing assaults on middle-class norms. Not since the early sixties has the clown-mask been used to spit out such bitter truths about the human condition in modern-day Western civilisation.\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\u003eScandinavian Misanthropy Trilogy\u003c/em\u003e\u0026rsquo;s protagonists struggle with postmillennial phenomena such as the \u0026lsquo;coffee-tableization of everything\u0026rsquo; or the idea of the \u0026lsquo;survival of the hippest,\u0026rsquo; and an unhealthy amount of hatred for everything around them. This vicious circle of the subversive \u0026ndash; each critique in the cultural field being not only immediately absorbed but also turned into a cultural good, and therefore soon tuning into the mainstream \u0026ndash; is also part of his topoi as a visual artist. His non-literary works also deal with the chasm between mainstream and underground, independence and commerciality, and the possibilities of an intervention of the artist and his utopias in the real world.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe debuutroman van de Noorse schrijver Matias Faldbakken is een hedendaagse satire die alle andere satires overbodig maakt. \u003cem\u003eThe Cocka Hola Company\u003c/em\u003e is de eerste roman van de trilogie \u003cem\u003eSkandinavisk misantropi \u003c/em\u003een is de waanzinnig grappige kroniek van een oorlog tegen de welvaartsstaat en zijn waarden. Samen met een bende sociale outcasts maakt Simpel gebruik van de hypocrisie en de dubbele moraal van de mensen. Zo zetten ze een reeks aanvallen in op de normen van de middenklasse \u0026ndash; grappig, maar net zo ontluisterend. Het moet van de vroege jaren 1960 geleden zijn dat een clownsmasker werd gebruikt om de bittere waarheid te achterhalen van de menselijke conditie in de hedendaagse westerse beschaving.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe hoofdpersonages van de trilogie \u003cem\u003eSkandinavisk misantropi \u003c/em\u003e worstelen met postmillennium-fenomenen zoals de \u0026lsquo;koffietafelisering van alles\u0026rsquo; of het concept van de \u0026lsquo;survival of the hippest\u0026rsquo;, en een ongezonde dosis haat tegenover alles om hen heen. Ook in zijn werk als beeldend kunstenaar is het een van zijn topoi: de vicieuze cirkel van het subversieve, waarbij elke kritiek in het culturele veld niet alleen onmiddellijk wordt geabsorbeerd, maar ook op zijn beurt wordt omgezet in een cultureel product, en zo in de mainstream belandt. Ook zijn niet-literaire werk gaat over de kloof tussen mainstream en underground, onafhankelijkheid en commercie, en de mogelijkheden voor een tussenkomst van een kunstenaar en zijn utopie\u0026euml;n in de echte wereld.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5357,"title":"Unfun - Skandinavische Misanthropie III","dimensions":"18.6 x 11.8 cm, 270 p, language: German, publisher: München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, ISBN: 9783453675698","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":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/678","stream_count_app":28,"permalink":"unfun-skandinavische-misanthropie-iii","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,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/622/large/Artistnovel_035.jpg?1342076906","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive years after \u003cem\u003eMacht und Rebel\u003c/em\u003e, Matias Faldbakken returns with \u003cem\u003eUnfun - Scandinavian Misanthropy III\u003c/em\u003e, drawing his trilogy to an explosive close through a discussion of violence and its ultimate consequence \u0026ndash; death. Using the dramaturgy of the rape/revenge flicks of the \u0026#39;70s as a framework for his narrative, Faldbakken cooks up a grotesquely hilarious and challenging story about the crew around the online slasher game \u0026quot;Deathbox\u0026quot;, at the center of which are the \u0026#39;violence intellectual\u0026#39; Slaktus and his former girlfriend and victim Lucy, an anarchist who embodies the horror film\u0026rsquo;s Final Girl trope. Problematizing concepts of oppression, freedom, and power in different contexts, Faldbakken lets Lucy mete out revenge on her oppressors in a narrative littered with references to popular culture, which bears Faldbakken\u0026rsquo;s trademark of being at once seriously disturbing and highly entertaining.\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\u003eScandinavian Misanthropy Trilogy\u003c/em\u003e\u0026rsquo;s protagonists struggle with postmillennial phenomena such as the \u0026lsquo;coffee-tableization of everything\u0026rsquo; or the idea of the \u0026lsquo;survival of the hippest,\u0026rsquo; and an unhealthy amount of hatred for everything around them. This vicious circle of the subversive \u0026ndash; each critique in the cultural field being not only immediately absorbed but also turned into a cultural good, and therefore soon tuning into the mainstream \u0026ndash; is also part of his topoi as a visual artist. His non-literary works also deal with the chasm between mainstream and underground, independence and commerciality, and the possibilities of an intervention of the artist and his utopias in the real world.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVijf jaar na \u003cem\u003eMacht und Rebel\u003c/em\u003e keert Matias Faldbakken terug met \u003cem\u003eUnfun \u0026ndash; Skandinavisk misantropi III\u003c/em\u003e. De trilogie komt tot een explosief einde aan de hand van een discussie over geweld en de ultieme consequentie ervan: de dood. Het raamwerk voor zijn verhaal haalt Faldbakken uit de dramaturgie van de verkrachtings-/wraakfilms van de jaren 1970. Daarmee brouwt hij een grotesk, hilarisch en uitdagend verhaal over de crew rond de online slasher-game \u0026lsquo;Deathbox\u0026rsquo; \u0026ndash; met centraal de \u0026lsquo;geweldintellectueel\u0026rsquo; Slaktus en zijn vroegere liefje en slachtoffer Lucy, een anarchiste die het clich\u0026eacute; belichaamt van het \u0026lsquo;laatste meisje\u0026rsquo; uit het genre van de horrorfilms. Faldbakken problematiseert concepten van onderdrukking, vrijheid en macht in verschillende contexten. Hij laat Lucy wraak nemen op haar onderdrukkers in een verhaal vol referenties aan populaire cultuur, met Faldbakkens handelskenmerk: tegelijk ernstig verontrustend en heel entertainend.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe hoofdpersonages van de trilogie \u003cem\u003eSkandinavisk misantropi\u003c/em\u003e worstelen met postmillennium-fenomenen zoals de \u0026lsquo;koffietafelisering van alles\u0026rsquo; of het concept van de \u0026lsquo;survival of the hippest\u0026rsquo;, en een ongezonde dosis haat tegenover alles om hen heen. Ook in zijn werk als beeldend kunstenaar is het een van zijn topoi: de vicieuze cirkel van het subversieve, waarbij elke kritiek in het culturele veld niet alleen onmiddellijk wordt geabsorbeerd, maar ook op zijn beurt wordt omgezet in een cultureel product, en zo in de mainstream belandt. Ook zijn niet-literaire werk gaat over de kloof tussen mainstream en underground, onafhankelijkheid en commercie, en de mogelijkheden voor een tussenkomst van een kunstenaar en zijn utopie\u0026euml;n in de echte wereld.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":22977,"title":"The Waiter","dimensions":"20.5 x 13.5 cm, 225 p., language : English, publisher : Doubleday (Transworld Publishers), London, ISBN : 9780857525857","date_begin":"2018-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"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 2030/301","stream_count_app":11,"permalink":"the-waiter","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/000/050/045/medium_500/20191205120414225_0001.jpg?1575544117","cached_actor_names":"Matias Faldbakken","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/050/045/large/20191205120414225_0001.jpg?1575544117","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn uniform, the ragged but solid tablecloths, and the regular diners. Some are there daily, like Graham \u0026ldquo;Le Gris\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;also known as The Pig\u0026mdash;and his dignified group of aesthetes; the slightly more free-spirited drinking company around Tom Sellers; and the closest one can get to personal friends of the waiter, Edgar and his young daughter, Anna. In this universe unto itself, there is scarcely any contact between the tables...until a beautiful and well-groomed young woman walks through the door and upsets the delicate balance of the restaurant and all it has come to represent. Like living in a snow globe,\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eThe Waiter\u0026nbsp;\u003c/i\u003eis a captivating study in miniature. Everything is just so, and that\u0026rsquo;s exactly how the waiter needs it to be. One can understand why he becomes anxious when things begin to change. In fact, given the circumstances, anxiety just might be the most sensible response.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116366/the-waiter/9780857525857.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]