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Solution 263: Double Agent
The phenomenal performative relationship between the state and its cultural institutions was perhaps best exemplified when the declaration of the State of Israel was staged at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1948. This relationship has been at the heart of Public Movement’s research. Solution 263: Double Agent, authored by Alhena Katsof and Dana Yahalomi, presents a methodology, manual, and performance offered as a culmination of efforts by the Office of Strategy and Protocol. It contains the necessary tools to activate Debriefing Sessions and in doing so trains future Agents in a series of one-to-one exchanges gathered from work in the field. At its root, Debriefing Sessions explore the possibility that to activate art in the political field, an agent may be a double agent.
The manual includes contributions by Karen Archey and Janto Schwitters, and Jill Magid.
AGENT
Most of the details about these paintings disappeared and in their place there is a vacuum, a culture of permissibility making strangers of us all.
We began to focus our search on paintings we could find, which had, almost without exception, been carried across borders and cared for by the artists and their families.
These paintings live in the Diaspora as exiled people do. (Returns to the folio and the diagram)
The manual includes contributions by Karen Archey and Janto Schwitters, and Jill Magid.
AGENT
Most of the details about these paintings disappeared and in their place there is a vacuum, a culture of permissibility making strangers of us all.
We began to focus our search on paintings we could find, which had, almost without exception, been carried across borders and cared for by the artists and their families.
These paintings live in the Diaspora as exiled people do. (Returns to the folio and the diagram)
128 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2015
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February 1, 2016
I bought this book first because of its editorial, which I know it has high quality titles, and second because of the text on its back cover. From that small piece of information I assumed this title would contain some theoretical approach on the subject of performative research, quoting from this text: "Public Movement presents the debriefing format as methodology for the transmission of information, turning research into action."
My surprise when starting reading it was that not only it didn't contain such theorertical approach but its content was tinted with a ‘detective’ aura that immediately pushed me away. Unfortunately I had nothing else to read while waiting my train so I keep reading it.
Overcame the first reaction, I became interested by the artistic project presented on the book. Didn't like the way it was presented nor understand the need to do it in such a way but it was an interesting topic (Israel—Palestina) and I finished the book.
Why the text on the back cover was not clear about the content of the book? Why it does not present the artists nor the art project? The fact that the back cover text hides this information from the public and only uses high-art-words to describe something without being clear, makes me understand that the authors had something to hide or that need to ‘get dressed’ in order to reach non-familiar public.
Content overdressed, for me it is not worth the money nor the time.
My surprise when starting reading it was that not only it didn't contain such theorertical approach but its content was tinted with a ‘detective’ aura that immediately pushed me away. Unfortunately I had nothing else to read while waiting my train so I keep reading it.
Overcame the first reaction, I became interested by the artistic project presented on the book. Didn't like the way it was presented nor understand the need to do it in such a way but it was an interesting topic (Israel—Palestina) and I finished the book.
Why the text on the back cover was not clear about the content of the book? Why it does not present the artists nor the art project? The fact that the back cover text hides this information from the public and only uses high-art-words to describe something without being clear, makes me understand that the authors had something to hide or that need to ‘get dressed’ in order to reach non-familiar public.
Content overdressed, for me it is not worth the money nor the time.
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