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Edith Dekyndt / [editors, Juan A. Gaitán, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Monika Szewczyk ; contributors, Amira Gad [and others]].

Author
Dekyndt, Edith, 1960-
Published
Rotterdam : Witte De With, Center for Contemporary Art, [2010]
New York : Distribution, D.A.P.
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Additional Creators
Gaitán, Juan A., 1973-, Schafhausen, Nicolaus, 1965-, Szewczyk, Monika, Gad, Amira, and Witte de With, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst

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Summary
All of Edith Dekyndt's work is made under the umbrella of what she calls Universal Research of Subjectivity, an enigmatic project concerning the place of the subject between the categories of science and fiction. Characterized by their visual and technical simplicity, her works inquire into how the notion of subjectivity changes once confronted with the possibility of a sensible machine. An other-worldly perspective on natural phenomena begins to challenge our cognitive coordinates. --
This Source Book is occasioned by Aposio, Dekyndt's solo exhibition at Witte de With in the Spring of 2009. Asked to consider her artistic sources, Dekyndt listed personal inspirations in literature, film and music. From these, we have excerpted a chapter of Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon [1971), which offers a precise poetic key for the artist's blend of scientific inquiry and subjective reverie. Her way of working is further illuminated in a candid interview with Amira God. And a selection of her own texts and images evokes her desired interplay of the spaces of the gallery, the book and the mind. Lastly, essays by curators Renske Janssen and Wim Waelput depart from close encounters with Dekyndt's work towards meditations on blankness and time machines. --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
9789073362901
9073362903
Related Titles
Edith Dekyndt: Agnosia
Note
Published on the occasion of an exhibition Edith Dekyndt: Agnosia, Feb. 28-April 26, 2009, curated by Juan A. Aaitán and Nicolaus Schafhausen at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
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