KIVLAND, Sharon
Folles de leur Corps - Crazy about their bodies

Short texts and essays written in in response to Kivland's textual descriptions of works in the eponymous exhibition held at CGP London in 2014 by  PASCAL BEAUSSE, ALISON J. CARR, VINCENT DACHY, RACHEL GARFIELD, CHRIS GIBSON, CATHERINE GRANT, JOHAN F. HARTLE, RALF F. HARTMANN, FRANCIS HASELDEN, JAMES HELLINGS, JEAN-MARC HUITOREL, JASPAR JOSEPH-LESTER, ESTHER LESLIE, JULIET FLOWER MacCANNELL, FORBES MORLOCK, DANY NOBUS, SANJA PEROVIC, JOHN W. P. PHILLIPS, STEVE PILE, STEFAN SZCZELKUN, JOSHUA SIMON, LINDA STUPART, JOHN TIMBERLAKE, SARAH WOOD.

Subjects include: anger, frou frou, voluptuous eroticism, royal spectacle, social order, a seductive mob, wild animals, writing in the air, arrests and trials, the cost of gold and blood, a body of flesh and slavery, measures of subjectivity, incompatible orders of time, new fashions, relations of power, the chorus of goods, value form, modern frocks, Bambi’s mother, a dazzling coat, exchange value, cock-teasers, the dance of death, lingering and fickle scent, universal appeal, patriotism, small transgressions, silk underwear,fetishism of merchandise, watchwords, art-cadia, revolutionary ardour, commodification of dissent,shared desires, erotic reverie, little charmers, civil disobedience, taut rumps, opulent licentiousness, chance encounters, feigned compliance, the dernier cri, passive citizens, enchanted waters, agit-disco, heritage of listening, bookshop, literary territory, library, suggested reading.

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Published by Ma Bibliothèque, 2014
Literature / Artists' Books / Exhibition Catalogues