The Malady of Writing – A project on text and speculative imagination is an exhibition presented at the MACBA Study Center of a collection of books, opuscula, pamphlets and single pages written by artists.
Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of ‘fake’ newspapers by Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words, Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection.
The Billboard Book book by Jonathan Monk harks back to other times. It is fabricated from the billboard project announcing its publication. It refers to itself in the natty text that Monk devised, invoking every last piece of technical detail constituting its manufacture.
Gargarin is an international periodical publishing special and unpublished writings by artists. The editorial layout is based on John Baldessari’s quote ‘Talking about art simply is not art. Talk can be art, but then it is not talking about art’.
“Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.”
Franz Kafka, Diary, January 24, 1922