TY - BOOK
T1 - The Mechanical Copula
AU - Fusco, Maria
N1 - Texts from this book have been reprinted in a number of national and international publications including: artandresearch online peer-reviewed journal (2011); Beyond Utopia (Errant Bodies Press, Los Angeles, 2011); Blast and Counterblast (University of Chicago Press, 2012); City of Women (The LAB, Dublin, 2009); Forms of Imagining (Project Press, Dublin, 2010); Kadist Art Foundation website (Paris, 2010); Keine Zeit Busy (21er Haus, Vienna, 2012).
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Mechanical Copula is a solo authored collection of twenty short stories. The book was produced during my roles as Writer-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2009-10) and Critic-in-Residence at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris, 2008-9), working on site with contemporary art works from both institutions' exhibitions and collections. Utilising fiction as a tool for critical art writing, the stories explore and embody an experimental relationship between text and visual work. They are concerned with acting concurrently 'with' rather than 'about' art, to present a fictional figuration of the art works' conceptual content. The Mechanical Copula was selected by Editions Ere for their international literature translation series Collection Littérature étrangère. Published in French, as Copulation Mechanique, Paris: Editions Ere, translated by Maxime Berree and Emilie Noteris. ISBN 978 2 915453 88 1. Supported by a Creative Development Residency in Cove Park, Scotland, 2010, and launched in at Artissima (Turin, 2010), The Goethe Institute (Dublin, 2010) and The Institute of Contemporary Art (London, 2011).‘Maria is creating a vanguard in the relationship between language and visual arts that is undoubtedly of significance.’ Kit Hammonds, Curating Department, Royal College of Art.
AB - The Mechanical Copula is a solo authored collection of twenty short stories. The book was produced during my roles as Writer-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2009-10) and Critic-in-Residence at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris, 2008-9), working on site with contemporary art works from both institutions' exhibitions and collections. Utilising fiction as a tool for critical art writing, the stories explore and embody an experimental relationship between text and visual work. They are concerned with acting concurrently 'with' rather than 'about' art, to present a fictional figuration of the art works' conceptual content. The Mechanical Copula was selected by Editions Ere for their international literature translation series Collection Littérature étrangère. Published in French, as Copulation Mechanique, Paris: Editions Ere, translated by Maxime Berree and Emilie Noteris. ISBN 978 2 915453 88 1. Supported by a Creative Development Residency in Cove Park, Scotland, 2010, and launched in at Artissima (Turin, 2010), The Goethe Institute (Dublin, 2010) and The Institute of Contemporary Art (London, 2011).‘Maria is creating a vanguard in the relationship between language and visual arts that is undoubtedly of significance.’ Kit Hammonds, Curating Department, Royal College of Art.
KW - art writing
KW - fiction
KW - art criticism
UR - http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1298&bookId=193&l=en
M3 - Book
SN - 9781934105191
BT - The Mechanical Copula
PB - Sternberg Press
ER -