[{"id":8136,"title":"Uccello’s Vineyard","dimensions":"441 KB, 258 p, language: English, publisher: Appleluck London, ISBN: B009Z48N2Y","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"","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":"","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":9,"permalink":"uccello-s-vineyard","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":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/024/102/large/10834903_776209552428354_1278775024392381081_o.jpg?1421161173","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cb\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/b\u003e\r\n\r\n*Uccello's Vineyard* is a fictive narrative about photography and art set in Medieval Europe, during the turbulent times of the Reformation and the High Renaissance. At the turn of the 16th century, Uccello, a Franciscan monk in Arezzo, Italy, discovers the secret of sun painting (photography) and sends shock waves through the Roman art world. Fearing that photography might undermine the authority of the Church as the printing press was already doing, Pope Alexander VI bans the 'diabolical' art throughout Christendom. What he does not manage to contain, however, is a backlash against classical representational painting among the artisans, in favour of a return to the spiritual values and directness of early Christian art. Primitivism, as the new style is called, acts as a catalyst for the religious and social revolutions that spread throughout Europe, spearheaded by Martin Luther in Germany and complicated by the rise of the Anabaptist libertine kingdom in Munster. \r\n\r\n*Uccello's Vineyard* is a playful and inventive exploration of art as a parable of various conflicting religious beliefs and ideals, and invites a re-examination of a phenomenon that has since the 15th century been increasingly regarded as an expression of secular values.\r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist’s practice\u003c/b\u003e\r\n\r\nThe novel is at the centre of Samson Kambalu’s practice. His writing influences his studio practice and his studio practise influences his writing. The video stills included here (*Captain*, 2012; *1876 (On the Penny Farthing*), 2012; *Two Mushroom Clouds*, 2012) are from a series of site specific performances (rants) inspired by the subversive antics of a 17th century antinomian religious sect, The Ranters, which also feature in *Uccello’s Vineyard* as prototype avant-garde artists.\r\n*Uccello's Vineyard* is only available in Kindle.\r\n\r\n[Novel website](http://samsonkambalu.com/uccellos-vineyard)"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":8133,"title":"The Jive Talker or How to Get a British Passport","dimensions":"14.4 x 22.4 cm, 336 p, language: English, publisher: Jonathan Cape London, ISBN: 978-0224081061","date_begin":"2008-01-01","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 2025/878","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"the-jive-talker-or-how-to-get-a-british-passport","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/000/018/994/large/Untitled.jpg?1380291514","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;When London-based conceptual artist Samson Kambalu was eleven, he founded his own religion, Holyballism. Based on sun worship and influenced by Nietzsche, Freud, and Frida Kahlo\u0026rsquo;s painting Nuclear Sun, the \u0026ldquo;holy ball\u0026rdquo; is the religion\u0026rsquo;s sacred/blasphemous object: a soccer ball plastered with pages ripped from the Bible and kicked about for \u0026ldquo;exercises and exorcisms.\u0026rdquo; Kambalu\u0026rsquo;s memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Jive Talker\u003c/em\u003e, is another form of exorcism and exercise, a literary, polyphonic performance of exuberance and delight. The book opens with Kambalu\u0026rsquo;s father, Aaron. Ambitious and dogmatic, he was a \u0026ldquo;medical clinical officer\u0026rdquo; whose postings required the family to relocate frequently. The bathroom was always the room in the house he prized most, and his Diptych\u0026mdash;a large two-part bookshelf filled with the complete works of his favorite writer, Nietzsche (\u0026ldquo;the perfect philosopher for the toilet because of his searing aphoristic style and cold truths\u0026rdquo;)\u0026mdash;was the center of the family home. He loved cutlery even more than food, and after a couple of bottles of Carlsberg Brown beer (which he called jive), he would regale his children with drunken sessions on Nietzsche\u0026rsquo;s \u003cem\u003eZarathustra \u003c/em\u003eor the \u0026ldquo;two great European narcotics,\u0026rdquo; alcoholism and born-again Christianity\u0026mdash;hence his nickname, the Jive Talker.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoscelyn Jurich, Bookforum Sept/Oct/Nov 2008\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is at the centre of Samson Kambalu\u0026rsquo;s practice. His writing influences his studio practice and his studio practise influences his writing.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://samsonkambalu.com/the-jive-talker\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]