{"product_id":"philippe-parreno-voices-a-collection-of-spoken-works","title":"Voices. A Collection of Spoken Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo endow an object with a voice is to bestow upon it subjectivity, whether that object is a stone, a forgotten fictional character, a group of children, or spirits. To vocalize something we witness is to recognize its uniqueness. An object years to transition into a subject. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—from the postface by Philippe Parreno\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers transcripts of voices “that breathe life into” the work of Philippe Parreno, from \u003cem\u003eOnce Upon A Time ... in “City Bild” \u003c\/em\u003e(1990, with Pierre Joseph) and \u003cem\u003eNo More Reality, the Demonstration \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNo More Reality, a Videoconference \u003c\/em\u003e(both 1991), to \u003cem\u003eNo More Reality \u003c\/em\u003e(2021). The text is edited with rare reference to who, or what, is speaking, and the credits of the films may be included, so that an eerie feeling \u003cem\u003eemerges \u003c\/em\u003efrom the reading. According to the back cover, “the \u003cem\u003evoices \u003c\/em\u003eencapsulated in this book form a creature unto itself, communicating via narraitves that lie between reality and fiction, ideas that transcend time and space, in ways that surpass our conventional understanding of language and communication.” Let’s add that it’s pretty fun to find in their English translation the texts of Yves Lecoq’s performances, \u003cem\u003eThe Public Man\u003c\/em\u003e, explaining the story of \u003cem\u003eDragon Ball\u003c\/em\u003e; quite moving to read the text from the video, \u003cem\u003eBirthday Zoé\u003c\/em\u003e; and really good to read the transcript of the performance, \u003cem\u003eThe Ultrasonic Scream of the Squirrel\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoices \u003c\/em\u003econcludes with a postface by Parreno, who precisely describes the book as “a varied tapestry of intertwined voices.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hatje Cantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358019854676,"sku":"A8B-33667","price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/voices.jpg?v=1790813799","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/philippe-parreno-voices-a-collection-of-spoken-works","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}