HEIRLOOM center for art and archives and Open Editions are happy to host the book launch of TOGETHER
Presentation by the editors David Blamey & Stine Hebert at 17.15
Please come to celebrate the launch of the final anthology of critical writing in the Occasional Table series: TOGETHER. Refreshments will be served.
TOGETHER is sold at a discounted price of 130DKK this evening (retail price 175DKK).
The event is organised in collaboration with PASS Center for Practice-based Art Studies
TOGETHER
Editors David Blamey & Stine Hebert
Twenty-three innovators from corresponding fields of practice – including art, education, philosophy, curating, public health, journalism, the church, museology, theatre, music, and anthropology – speculate about the benefits of thinking and acting together, as opposed to alone, in the contemporary moment.
The resulting collection of texts overflows with fresh ideas and personal perspectives. Many chapters conjoin subjects that we’re not used to thinking of as allied to reveal that in combination they can amount to something greater than the sum of their individual parts: artist and gallerist, nature and humankind, heaven and earth, art and life, to name a few. Others take a more direct line to argue that our very future depends on developing more inclusive and collective responses to worldwide crises as they continue to occur.
In both free and mixed market economies we have gradually come to inhabit cultures that promote self-centred individualism and uncompromising autonomy as a means to gain material wealth and therefore, apparently, happiness. And yet, for so many reasons, almost everyone seems to feel either alienated or marginalised nowadays. In dialogue with these proliferating social, political and cultural shifts, Together pursues the need to surmount the manifestations of silence, ignorance and discomfort that have come to accompany life lived alone among others. By looking outwards from the art world this anthology opens up a range of possibilities for engendering principles of civic imagination, tolerance and solidarity alongside the need for self-care.
Contributors
Bayo Akomolafe / Sara Alberani, Cesar Barros, María Berríos, Pip Day & Ricardo Pérez-Hita / David Blamey / Meech Boakye & Gareth Long / John Fass / Marc Gloede / Stine Hebert / Paul Hedge & Richard Slee / Bojana Kunst / Naomi Leite / Gabrielle Moser & Helena Reckitt / Billie Muraben / Lucy Newman-Cleeve / Lisa Rosendahl / Eilis Searson / Derek Walmsley
Distribution
ArtData (UK), Idea Books (Europe/USA), Open Editions
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