[{"id":20636,"title":"Reading Nana","dimensions":"20.5 x 14 cm, 104 p, language: English, French, publisher: MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, ISBN:978-1-910055-28-1","date_begin":"2017-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"book artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/823","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"reading-nana-an-experimental-novel","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/000/042/779/medium_500/Sharon1.jpeg?1543316903","cached_actor_names":"Sharon Kivland","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/000/042/779/large/Sharon1.jpeg?1543316903","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSharon Kivland has\u0026nbsp;been reading \u003ci\u003eNana \u003c/i\u003eby \u0026Eacute;mile Zola over a number of years. Zola\u0026rsquo;s novel, his \u0026lsquo;true story of the \u003ci\u003edemi-monde\u003c/i\u003e\u0026rsquo;, was published in instalments, first appearing in October 1879 in \u003ci\u003eLe Voltaire\u003c/i\u003e. The definitive version in book form was published on 15 February by Charpentier.\u0026nbsp;Kivland\u0026nbsp;read and reread the book, in both French and English. She\u0026nbsp;digested the book, condensing it, organising it into themes, appearances; assimilating\u0026nbsp;it. She read (one might say perform) her assimilations, and danced one, according to Jean-Luc Godard\u0026rsquo;s film version, inviting others to join her. Some parts of her reading have been published in instalments. Herein they are assembled, a whole novel that is largely incomplete, as Nana or \u003ci\u003eNana \u003c/i\u003eslips from the grasp. Her value lies in that she can be exchanged. Her value lies in that another has had her. Her body has useful qualities, and these qualities are also of value. Nana or \u003ci\u003eNana \u003c/i\u003eis of value because she has been used; her potential for use is realised and finely calibrated. The cleavage between her use and exchange is less clearly demarcated. She eludes possession, no matter how many times she is had, no matter how many times it is read. There is no portrait of her, though Manet paints one which or who is like her. A horse is named for her, described in more detail than she. I take it upon myself to depict her, to speak for her and as her: a woman who is a book, a book that is a woman.\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\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Nana\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;figures in a number of Kivland\u0026#39;s works (see images attached):\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMa Nana (huit fois)\u003c/em\u003e:\u0026nbsp;The audience\u0026rsquo;s assessment of Nana has been rewritten, in the first-person singular, taking back the attributes (the artist likes to think), and is printed on fair-calf leather, like a carte de visite. Fair-calf is smooth and the surface is absorbent. It is sometimes called book calf. It is the closest to human skin. The descriptions of the transgressive body of that natural woman of the demi-monde, Nana, are returned to her through a simple change in pronoun \u0026ndash; yet one also takes them for oneself, in an internalised reading.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa dormeuse:\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;At the end of the eponymous novel by Emile Zola, the lovely Nana is lovely no longer: \u0026lsquo;around this grotesque and horrible mask of death, the hair, the beautiful hair, still blazed like sunlight and flowed in a stream of gold\u0026rsquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMa Nana \u003c/em\u003e(limited edition book): The texts are extracted from Zola\u0026rsquo;s novel, once again, with the addition of a comment made by Gustave Flaubert. The book is excessive in its values of production, and the colophon page appears as part of the book, rather than as a publisher\u0026rsquo;s addition.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNana, DIgested According to LIghts \u0026amp; LIghting Effects, Including Metaphor:\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003escreenprint on Arches mouldmade paper.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharonkivland.com\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":20637,"title":"A Case of Hysteria","dimensions":"23 x 17.4 cm, 321 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works. ISBN: 978 1 870600 25 9","date_begin":"1999-01-01","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":"book artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/822","stream_count_app":9,"permalink":"a-case-of-hysteria","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/000/042/780/medium_500/Sharon2.jpeg?1543317050","cached_actor_names":"Sharon Kivland","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/000/042/780/large/Sharon2.jpeg?1543317050","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Case of Hysteria\u003c/em\u003e draws on Freud\u0026rsquo;s analysis of Dora, a young woman who is brought to him by her father. Dora is suffering from repeated loss of voice and a nervous cough. A mystery novel about Dora, which investigates the events discussed in her analysis as clues to the unlocking of a story of love and betrayal, the book is also a critical study that rewrites one of the key texts in psychoanalysis. \u003cem\u003eA Case of Hysteria\u003c/em\u003e reveals an illuminating picture of Dora. The writer-turned detective traces the events recounted in the analysis, following the story to Vienna, Meran, and Franzenbad.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026lsquo;\u003cem\u003eA Case of Hysteria\u003c/em\u003e is [\u0026hellip;] only nominally about Freud\u0026#39;s famous case study, a departure point for a much broader, as well as a much more personal kind of reflection. In some ways, this might seem a rather perverse take on a book which, in its language and its form sticks closely to the letter of Freud\u0026#39;s text, repeatedly and slyly quotes it, mimics its original structure, borrows the intonations of its voice. [\u0026hellip;] \u0026nbsp;What \u003cem\u003eA Case of Hysteria\u003c/em\u003e does is make strategic use of Freud\u0026#39;s \u003cem\u003eFragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;in order to argue a series of very important points about, on the one hand, what constitutes a case study, and on the other, about writing and the creative process itself\u0026rsquo;.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e- Julia Borossa\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\u003eThe novel is the first major work in the series that addresses \u0026ndash; and rewrite \u0026ndash; a number of Freud\u0026rsquo;s case histories. It also relates to Sharon Kivland\u0026#39;s longstanding engagement with psychoanalysis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://bookworks.org.uk/node/68\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":33989,"title":"Abécédaire","dimensions":"19 x 12 cm, 296p., language: English; Publisher: Moist, 978-1-913430-10-8","date_begin":"2022-01-01","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":"M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2031/748","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"abecedaire","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/000/089/140/medium_500/20230201_Ab%C3%A9c%C3%A9daire.jpg?1675349235","cached_actor_names":"Sharon Kivland","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/089/140/large/20230201_Ab%C3%A9c%C3%A9daire.jpg?1675349235","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]