Pro Spect Us
PRO SPECT US ROY ASCOTT AA BRONSON PAVEL BÜCHLER MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN NEIL CUMMINGS ALICE & RITA EVANS ANTONIO FAUNDEZ PAULO FREIRE VERINA GFADER FRITZ HAEG RUTH HÖFLICH IVAN ILLICH OLIVER KLIMPEL ADAM KNIGHT HANS ULRICH OBRIST CEDRIC PRICE JOHN REARDON MATTHEW STADLER RICHARD WENTWORTH ANY ACT OF SPECULATION, HOPE, PLANNING, CREATIVITY, PUBLISHING, EXHIBITION, DREAMING, ETC. IS A PRO-SPECTUS. Despite its highly composed and subtly tuned character, this book, titled PROSPECTUS, provides an eclectic and to a degree random mix of materials relating to academies and factories, institutions on the move, perfect structures, sites of artistic practice, and pedagogical systems. The publication has primarily developed out of the activities and processes surrounding ARTSCHOOL/UK, which began its ex- pansive studies and counter-studies in 2010. In PROSPECTUS, themes such as Secondary Networks, Extra-institutional framework, Mobilise! / Neighbourhood, Debts, Shamanism, Rigid Systems, Community / Open Source / Histories, Non-plan, Study: Centres and Peripheries, and Architecture, become the condition for textual and visual layering, The Fictional Collective and a structural device. It is here where a common desire for the yet to come is revealed in the gaps between the individual elements of this book, as it is in the events and encounters through the unfolding of the art school. And while the book, of course, aims at expressing collective authorship and the multitude, it insists on singular voices and figures, less anonymous than perhaps expected. Shifting between past events, curiosities and speculative thought, proposal type texts, in/formal conversations and idle talk, PROSPECTUS works with a temporality that positions its material simultaneously in the present and in the future, as manual, users guide, archive, and manifesto.
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