About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherPolígrafa, Ediciones, S. A.

ISBN-10843431262X

ISBN-139788434312623

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038583375

Product Key Features

Book TitleDomino Cannibal

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows, European

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorCuauhtmoc Medina

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal700.946090512

SynopsisStaged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Vernicas, the year-long exhibition project Domin Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it. Jimmie Durham was followed by Cristina Lucaas, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Rivane Neuenschwander and Francis Als., Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Verónicas, the year-long exhibition project Dominó Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it. Jimmie Durham was followed by Cristina Lucaas, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Rivane Neuenschwander and Francis Alys., Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Ver nicas, the year-long exhibition project Domin Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it. Jimmie Durham was followed by Cristina Lucaas, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Rivane Neuenschwander and Francis Alys., Domino cannibal is proposed as a counter-model to the usual types of artistic participation, presenting it as a platform made up of overlaps and discontinuities between various artists who engage with one another successively and in stages in the same space, cannibalizing (reinterpreting, demolishing and appropriating) the work of the other participants. The relationship between dominos and cannibalism is not as gratuitous as it may seem. On the one hand, the Manifesto antropofago (Cannibal Manifesto), written in 1928 by the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade, suggested cannibalism as a metaphor for rebellion against the myths of originality and cultural object. Based on Chinese dice games, and taken, like pasta, to Italy, it ended up spreading with the Iberian colonization of the new world and become the most popular table game in Latin American societies. The aim of Domino cannibal is to bring together all this imagery by inviting a group of artists-Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera and Francis Alys among others-to act in a space established not in terms of autonomy and individual identity but rather as a venue for ongoing negotiation between languages, materials and aesthetics. ILLUSTRATIONS 240 images *, Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Verónicas, the year-long exhibition project Dominó Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it. Jimmie Durham was followed by Cristina Lucaas, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Rivane Neuenschwander and Francis Alÿs.

LC Classification NumberN6494.P72