A small book accompanies the show and consists of texts written by the curators and other invited writers who all come from  different academic fields and geographic backgrounds and comment directly or indirectly on some of the issues raised by the exhibition.

The content of the book ranges from poetry through to theoretical and nonsensical texts, and provides a vast array of  opinions and lyrical approaches to themes of anthropomorphism,  artistic mythologies, abjection and beautification; and is  accompanied by illustrations, mainly of the artworks in the exhibition.

Book launch: 20th June 2008, 7pm
The book is available for sale during the exhibition for the
promotional price of £5 (all profit goes to further
exhibitions organized by the MA Contemporary Art Theory at
Edinburgh College of Art)

Design by Margus Tamm
http://www.tammtamm.net/

Baked Hedgehog. Idea for a Musical Comedy
Beagles & Ramsay

Face Blindness
Angela Beck

BYYOURBED
Þórdís Björnsdóttir

A Night of Becomings
Andrew Cattanach

Monsters and Oddities
Elena Damiano

Discussion forum
Martine Foltier Pugh

The problem with anthropomorpism
Levi Hanes

Biting on Nonsense. “Does [it] taste funny to you?”
Kristín Dagmar Jóhannesdóttir

An animist’s fidelity to inanimate objects
Talitha Kotzé

BLOODY MARY
Mairi Lafferty

Luring waste (–not really an epilogue, but hey…)
Undine Lang

The Tree Chopped Down
Nebuchadnezzar II

Nissifer the New!
Madame Nissifer

What was that glowing white palace called human? Only it seemed then that I would never walk upright on two legs again.
Rose Ruane

Personal Bestiariums: Imaginary Creatures of Artistic Mythologies
Elnara Taidre

…In My Image (Some Lessons)
Francis Summers

A Very Short Programmatic Note on Believing in Technology
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

 

 


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