{"product_id":"bands","title":"Bands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Bands\u003c\/em\u003e is the latest incarnation of a long-term project in which Blamey has collected thousands of used rubber bands with a view to better understanding how their performative application in routine situations can lead to an extraordinary array of physical expressions. In previous iterations he has projected these bands at a monumental scale and arranged them systematically in a vitrine. But here, nearly a hundred photographs are distributed across the pages of a large-scale book that resembles a half-empty travel guide. It is both astonishing that someone would undertake such a task and exhilarating to see the numerous ways in which a humble circle of elastic can warp, kink, torque, tangle, coil and knot in the process of being removed from its intended place of use. These spent loops are instinctively discardable – the lowest of the low – and yet, solicitously documented and arranged according to some mysterious scheme, they are elevated to a value equivalent to that of music or sculpture – or, at least, to something eminently worthwhile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Veii","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358352318804,"sku":"A8B-37567","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/bandsbands.jpg?v=1790814889","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/bands","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}