[{"id":5287,"title":"C","dimensions":"23 x 15.2 cm, 310 p, language: English, publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, Random House, ISBN: 9780224091251","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":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/686","stream_count_app":26,"permalink":"c","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/000/010/691/large/Artistnovel_006.jpg?1342085053","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;\u0026#39;Tom McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s novel, \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e, is set in the early 20th Century and follows the life of Serge Carrefax, who is raised on the grounds of a school for the deaf. From a young age, Serge is exposed to a variety of developing technologies\u0026mdash;particularly wireless radio\u0026mdash;by his father, an amateur inventor. The book goes on to trace Serge\u0026#39;s maturation as he goes to a sanatorium for treatment of an intestinal illness, serves as an aviator in WWI, and then moves to London and Egypt after the war. \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e intentionally never delves into the psychological states of its characters, preferring an aesthetic posthumanism that results in obsessive observations of everyday objects, and, most importantly, technological artefacts, which are rendered in almost pornographic detail. Serge (whose name is a pun on an electric surge) is an affectless narrator, who even seems unfazed by his sister\u0026rsquo;s death, and after having served in WWI, notes that \u0026mdash;instead of being shell-shocked\u0026mdash; he actively enjoyed the War (late in the novel, Serge drops out of a drawing class because he cannot master perspective\u0026mdash;i.e. he lacks \u0026lsquo;depth\u0026rsquo;). In focusing on modern systems and developing technologies, \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e attempts to show how the globalised networks of our contemporary world were already in place at the beginning of the 20th Century\u0026#39;\u0026#39;.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Emmett Stinson\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;\u0026#39;De roman \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e van Tom McCarthy speelt zich af in de vroege 20ste eeuw en volgt het leven van Serge Carrefax, die opgroeit op het domein van een dovenschool. Van jongsaf brengt Serges vader, een amateur-uitvinder, hem in aanraking met een scala aan technologi\u0026euml;n in ontwikkeling \u0026ndash; waaronder vooral de draadloze radio. Het boek volgt verder Serges ontwikkeling: hoe hij naar een sanatorium moet voor de behandeling van ziektes van de ingewanden, als vliegenier dient in de Tweede Wereldoorlog en na de oorlog naar Londen en Egypte trekt. Met opzet graaft \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e op geen enkel moment in de psychologie van de personages: er is gekozen voor een esthetisch posthumanisme dat resulteert in obsessieve observaties van alledaagse voorwerpen en, bovenal, technologische artefacten, die in haast pornografisch detail worden weergegeven. Serge (een pun op het Engelse woord \u0026lsquo;an electric surge\u0026rsquo;, of \u0026lsquo;een elektrische stoot\u0026rsquo;) is een gevoelloze verteller, die zelfs onbewogen lijkt bij de dood van zijn zus. Na zijn dienst in de Tweede Wereldoorlog stelt hij dat hij - in plaats van getraumatiseerd te zijn \u0026ndash; actief genoten heeft van de oorlog. Verderop in de roman moet Serge een tekenles opgeven omdat hij perspectief niet meester kan worden: het ontbreekt hem aan diepte. Door de focus op moderne systemen en technologi\u0026euml;n in ontwikkeling probeert \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e te tonen hoe de geglobaliseerde netwerken van onze hedendaagse wereld er al waren in het begin van de 20ste eeuw.\u0026#39;\u0026#39;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Emmett Stinson\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5321,"title":"Men in Space","dimensions":"19.6 x 12.7 cm, 278 p, language: English, publisher: Richmond (Surrey): Alma Books, ISBN: 9781846880568","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":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/685","stream_count_app":24,"permalink":"men-in-space","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/000/010/657/large/Artistnovel_019.jpg?1342081184","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn artwork, a 19th-century icon from Bulgaria, will be smuggled out of the country as soon as a local crime syndicate has time to find a talented artist who can create a realistic-enough copy to fool church officials. They find him in Ivan Maň\u0026aacute;sek, an up-and-coming sculptor whose natural gregariousness places him at the epicenter of Prague\u0026rsquo;s Warholian art scene, whose inhabitants are constantly, painfully aware of their own ambitions and their conflicts over the search for the night\u0026rsquo;s best party or a more obscure bar. The longer Ivan works on the icon, the more committed he becomes to the purity of the copy. This consternates his sometime girlfriend, an American teacher desperate to fit into the art-school scene. The hinge to the syndicate\u0026rsquo;s plan is Anton Markov, a Bulgarian refugee who does their errands but feels at home among the art crowd; his planned flight to America is on hold while his wife attempts to wrest custody of her children from her first marriage, and someone is already filing detailed police reports about him with the nascent Czech state. By continuously maintaining this narrative drift even through the most dramatic turns, McCarthy is able to reinforce the idea that \u003cem\u003eMen in Space\u003c/em\u003e is not just one character\u0026#39;s tale, but a system of many.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMen in Space\u003c/em\u003e McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s approach, if only very occasionally stalling otherwise fluid prose, effectively expresses his fascination with the ways in which we subject ourselves to systems and patterns.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEen kunstwerk, een 19de-eeuws icoon uit Bulgarije, zal uit het land worden gesmokkeld van zodra een lokale maffia een getalenteerde kunstenaar vindt die een realistische kopie kan maken om de functionarissen van de kerk om de tuin te leiden. Die kunstenaar treffen ze aan in Ivan Maň\u0026aacute;sek, een veelbelovende beeldhouwer met natuurlijke sociale capaciteiten die hem in het epicentrum plaatsen van de warholiaanse Praagse kunstscene. De figuren van die scene zijn zich constant en pijnlijk bewust van hun eigen ambities en hun conflicten over de zoektocht naar het beste feestje van de nacht of de meer obscure bar. Hoe langer Ivan aan het icoon werkt, hoe toegewijder hij de zuiverheid van de kopie gaat naleven. Dat verbaast zijn vroegere geliefde, een Amerikaanse leerkracht die zo graag deel zou uitmaken van de kunstschoolscene. De spil van het maffiaplan is Anton Markov, een Bulgaarse vluchteling die hun boodschappen doet maar zich thuisvoelt tussen de artistiekelingen. Zijn geplande vlucht naar Amerika staat \u0026lsquo;on hold\u0026rsquo; terwijl zijn vrouw probeert de voogdij over haar kinderen van haar eerste huwelijk te ontfutselen, en iemand al gedetailleerde politieverslagen over hem klasseert in de ontluikende Tsjechische staat. Door voortdurend die narratieve stroom aan te houden, zelfs bij de meest dramatische keerpunten, slaagt McCarthy erin om het idee kracht bij te zetten dat \u003cem\u003eMen in Space\u003c/em\u003e niet zozeer het verhaal is van \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n personage, maar een systeem van vele personages is.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMen in Space\u003c/em\u003e drukt McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s stijl \u0026ndash; vloeiend, slechts zelden stoppend proza \u0026ndash; zijn fascinatie uit met de manieren waarop we onszelf onderwerpen aan systemen en patronen.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":5330,"title":"Remainder","dimensions":"19.8 x 12.8 cm, 284 p, language: English, publisher: Richmond (Surrey): Alma Books, ISBN: 9781846880414","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 2024/684","stream_count_app":25,"permalink":"remainder","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/000/010/648/large/Artistnovel_023.jpg?1342080116","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraumatised by an accident which \u0026#39;involved something falling from the sky\u0026#39; and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c/em\u003e\u0026#39;s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them...But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts reconstructing more and more violent events, including holdups and shoot-outs. \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c/em\u003e is a darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition was preceded by a very scarce edition published in 2005 by the Metronome Press in Paris. The activity of Metronome Press was the publication of fiction written by artists in the shape of a paperback series. After becoming a cult hit championed first by British webzines (it was 3:AM Magazine\u0026rsquo;s Book of the Year for 2005) and then by the literary press, Remainder was republished by Alma Books in the UK (2006) and Vintage in the US (2007). A French version is to be followed by editions in Japanese, Korean, Greek, Spanish and Croatian. Tom McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s ongoing project the International Necronautical Society (INS) is a semi-fictitious avant-garde network that surfaces through publications, proclamations, denunciations and live events. In clear connection to \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c/em\u003e\u0026rsquo;s central ideas, we can read in INS Declaration on Inauthenticity (2007): \u0026ldquo;The Statement navigates a course from the individual, to the dividual, thence to the residual, \u0026ldquo;a remainder that remains: a shard, a leftover, a trace\u0026rdquo;, and further to the risidual, a laughable doubling. \u0026ldquo;What distinguishes the poet or philosopher from others\u0026rdquo;, the Statement says, \u0026ldquo;is that he can laugh at himself. That is, he can simultaneously be the one who trips and the one who watches the trip: he can split himself in two \u0026mdash; what Baudelaire calls d\u0026eacute;doublement\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.metronomepress.com/books/books1.html\"\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\u003eHet hoofdpersonage van \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c/em\u003e raakt getraumatiseerd door een ongeluk waarbij iets uit de lucht komt vallen en hij 8,5 miljoen pond rijker achterblijft, maar hopeloos vervreemd van de wereld rondom hem. Hij spendeert zijn tijd en geld aan het obsessief reconstrueren en herbeleven van vaagweg herinnerde sc\u0026egrave;nes en situaties uit zijn verleden: een groot gebouw met pianomuziek in de verte; de vertrouwde geuren en geluiden van bakkende en sissende lever; lethargische katten die op daken rondhangen tot ze ervan afdonderen\u0026hellip; Maar wanneer dit alles er niet in slaagt om zijn dorst naar authenticiteit te lessen, begint hij alsmaar gewelddadigere gebeurtenissen te reconstrueren, zoals hold-ups en schietpartijen. \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c/em\u003e is, met zwarte humor, een meditatie op geheugen, identiteit en geschiedenis.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe publicatie werd voorafgegaan door een uitgave in bijzonder lage oplage, uitgegeven in 2005 bij Metronome Press in Parijs. Die uitgeverij specialiseerde zich in het publiceren van fictie door kunstenaars in de vorm van een paperbackserie. Het boek werd een culthit dankzij de lof van Britse webtijdschriften (het was het boek van het jaar volgens 3:AM Magazine) en vervolgens die van de literaire pers. En dus werd \u003cem\u003eRemainder\u003c/em\u003e heruitgegeven door Alma Books in het Verenigd Koninkrijk (2006) en Vintage in de VS (2007). Na de Franse versie volgen edities in het Japans, Koreaans, Grieks, Spaans en Kroatisch. Tom McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s lopende project de \u0026lsquo;International Necronautical Society (INS)\u0026rsquo; is een semi-fictief avantgarde-netwerk dat aan de oppervlakte komt in publicaties, proclamaties, afkondigingen en live-events. Met verband met de centrale ide\u0026euml;en van Remainder lezen we in de *Declaration on Inauthenticity van INS* (2007): \u0026#39;\u0026#39;The Statement volgt een parcours van het individu naar het \u0026ldquo;dividu\u0026rdquo; en vervolgens het residu, \u0026ldquo;een overblijfsel dat overblijft: een scherf, een restje, een spoor\u0026#39;\u0026#39;, en verder naar het risidu, een belachelijke verdubbeling. \u0026ldquo;Wat de dichter of filosoof van de anderen onderscheidt\u0026rdquo;, zegt het Statement, \u0026ldquo;Is dat hij kan lachen met zichzelf. Hij kan tegelijk degene zijn die struikelt en degene die de struikeling ziet: hij kan zichzelf in twee splitsen \u0026ndash; hetgeen Baudelaire d\u0026eacute;doublement noemt.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.metronomepress.com/books/books1.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":13108,"title":"Satin Island","dimensions":"14.98 x 21.59 cm, 208 p., language : English, publisher : Knopf, New York, ISBN : 978-0307593955","date_begin":"2015-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/726","stream_count_app":16,"permalink":"satin-island","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/000/029/789/large/Satin_Island.jpg?1438362159","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eU., a \u0026ldquo;corporate anthropologist,\u0026rdquo; is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape.\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\u003eCoinciding with the publication of his novel \u003cem\u003eSatin Island\u003c/em\u003e, Tom McCarthy collaborated with set designer Laura Hopkins to present a real-space version of the world that the book\u0026rsquo;s protagonist inhabits. This project took place at ICA London from 23 \u0026ndash; 29 March 2015, providing visitors with a unique opportunity to physically step into, walk around, touch and interact with a work of fiction. As well as welcoming visitors throughout the week, U.\u0026rsquo;s office at the ICA hosted two public events:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eA \u0026ldquo;Think Tank\u0026rdquo; where Director of the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt Dr. Cl\u0026eacute;mentine Deliss, feted media consultant Alfie Spencer and leading critic and novelist Mark Blacklock discussed the triangle (central to McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s novel) linking anthropology, capitalism and literature within contemporary culture.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nA \u0026ldquo;Company Report\u0026rdquo;: All-day reading of \u003cem\u003eSatin Island\u003c/em\u003e on Saturday 28th March, from 12 noon to 10 pm. Specially invited figures from the world of writing, theatre and art read McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s novel from start to finish, non-stop in relay, in the style of an extended press conference or AGM statement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://moussemagazine.it/tom-mccarthy-ica-london-2015/\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":37316,"title":"The Making of Incarnation","dimensions":"20 x 13 cm, 327 p., language: English, publisher: Penguin Random House, United Kingdom, ISBN: 9781529114386","date_begin":"2021-01-01","material":"","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":"Collectie M HKA, Antwerpen","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"the-making-of-incarnation","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":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/095/624/medium_500/Themakingofincarnation_McCarthy.jpeg?1773400231","cached_actor_names":"Tom  McCarthy","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/095/624/large/Themakingofincarnation_McCarthy.jpeg?1773400231","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]