{"product_id":"deliquescing","title":"Deliquescing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"b_text\"\u003eThe publication \u003cem\u003eDeliquescing\u003c\/em\u003e accompanies Steve Bishop’s 2018–19 solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Both the exhibition and publication reflect a body of research that focuses on the fragility of memory and the potential for its preservation, defying the gradual breakdown of matter through the effects of time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"b_text\"\u003eThis book continues Bishop’s research into the lion’s mane mushroom and the abandoned town in Canada, including video stills capturing this hauntingly beautiful place as well as photo documentation of the installations at KW. An interview of the artist with KW curator Anna Gritz is featured alongside essays by Gary Zhexi Zhang on a computer program that functions as an archive of “lists of lists”; Orit Gat on her exchanges with Bishop about the phobia of time, jazz standards, and the emotional weight of kitsch; and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing on the foreign-borne diseases that plague native tree cultures\/ \u003c\/span\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357244367188,"sku":"A8B-26397","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/deliquescing.jpg?v=1790811769","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/deliquescing","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}