{"product_id":"if-revolution-is-a-sickness","title":"If Revolution is a Sickness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first monograph on Diane Severin Nguyen’s work – that considers how songs and shared histories are woven together across different times and places. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf Revolution is a Sickness\u003c\/em\u003e centers on a new film by Nguyen; set in Warsaw, Poland, and it loosely follows the character of an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to join a South Korean pop-inspired dance group. Popular within a subculture of Polish youth, the genre of K-pop is used by Nguyen as a vernacular structure as she traces a relationship between Eastern Europe and Asia that has roots in Cold War allegiances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to extensive imagery from the film and behind-the-scenes footage, the book also features essays by Cat Zhang on K-pop’s online communities and by Nathanäel on music, history, and geography; a pair of reflections on the film by curators Myriam Ben Salah and Sohrab Mohebbi; and a conversation between the artist and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster. Also included with the book is a flexi-disc record featuring a song with music and lyrics co-written by Nguyen [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf Revolution is a Sickness\u003c\/em\u003e was published in relation with the exhibitions of the works at SculptureCenter in New York and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Renaissance Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358089388372,"sku":"A8B-34751","price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/if_20revolution_20is_20a_20sickness.jpg?v=1790814091","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/if-revolution-is-a-sickness","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}