Edited by Claire Gilman, Margaret Sundell. Text by T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Claire Gilman.
Amid the popularity of documentary practices in contemporary art, The Storyteller addresses the use of storytelling as a means of exploring recent political events. For the artists in this volume, the story operates neither as a purely imaginary conceit nor as an item of verifiable information. In some cases, it may take the form of an invented drama based on real events; in others, it adopts literary genres such as the fairy tale or the quest; in still others, a dialogue is conceived between active participants in a contemporary political situation. Edited by Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, The Storyteller includes works by Cao Fei, Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha, Missing Books, Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, Liisa Roberts and Hito Steyerl.
"If storytelling permits a different kind of truth, it also necessitates a particular worldview, one in which action is tempered by reflection. Indeed, by its very nature, storytelling implies that things are never resolved once and for all. Instead, events are taken up, digested, and reformulated through the listener's interpretive process and through each subsequent retelling. Storytelling is in this way a fundamentally egalitarian form. One might even go so far as to say that storytelling is a form of our times."
Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, excerpted from The Storyteller.
FORMAT: Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 120 pgs / 35 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $15.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $17.5 ISBN: 9783037640869 PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier AVAILABLE: 7/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD Excl FR DE AU CH
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Claire Gilman, Margaret Sundell. Text by T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Claire Gilman.
Amid the popularity of documentary practices in contemporary art, The Storyteller addresses the use of storytelling as a means of exploring recent political events. For the artists in this volume, the story operates neither as a purely imaginary conceit nor as an item of verifiable information. In some cases, it may take the form of an invented drama based on real events; in others, it adopts literary genres such as the fairy tale or the quest; in still others, a dialogue is conceived between active participants in a contemporary political situation. Edited by Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, The Storyteller includes works by Cao Fei, Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha, Missing Books, Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, Liisa Roberts and Hito Steyerl.
