Steve Bishop : deliquescing / editors, Anna Gritz, Steve Bishop ; texts, Steve Bishop [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gritz, Anna, editor, organizer.

Kunst-Werke Berlin, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bishop, Steve, 1983---Exhibitions.

Bishop, Steve.

Memory in art--Exhibitions.

Memory in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

115 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Deliquescing

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press : KW Institute for Contemporary Art, [2018]

Summary:

The publication 'Deliquescing' accompanies Steve Bishop's 2018-19 solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Both the exhibition and publication reflect a body of research that focuses on the fragility of memory and the potential for its preservation, defying the gradual breakdown of matter through the effects of time. The lion's mane mushroom is sought after for its medicinal properties, known for protecting and repairing the mind and memory. Within KW, the artist reconstructed the exact conditions needed to cultivate the mushroom. Its medicinal properties were abstracted and repeated in the space of the gallery - the mushroom held in perfect stasis so that it wouldn't lapse into the entropic process known as deliquescing. Bishop's video work 'Deliquescing' is paired with this regulated climate of cultivation: slow-panning HD shots study an abandoned Canadian mining town, maintained in a Sisyphean fashion by an unseen caretaker, homes still heated, bucolic front yards suspended from entropy, empty storefronts frozen, any sign of decay routinely swept away. This extreme stillness is randomly interrupted by the dashing of an animal, the only 'aliveness' that remains. Exhibition: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (02.11.2018 - 06.01.2019).

Contents:

Foreword

Perpetual upkeep : a conversation between Steve Bishop and Anna Gritz

I'm not there / Steve Bishop

Stills

Thinking, eating, cleaning / Gary Zhext Zhang

In all the old familiar places / Orit Gat

Deliquescing

Phytophthora death march and other heedless slaughter : why we should ban industrial nursery trade / Anna Tsing.

Notes:

On the occasion of the exhibition "Deliquescing" by Steve Bishop, held at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, November 2, 2018 - January 6, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion ot the exhibition "Deliquescing" by Steve Bischop, held at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, November 2, 2018 - January 6, 2019.

Contains:

Bishop, Steve, 1983- Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9783956794599

3956794591

OCLC:

1090074608

Publisher Number:

9783956794599