#13 - UQ - neveroddoreven

Never Odd or Even Volume II by Mariana Castillo Deball

Never Odd or Even Volume II is an anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books. A compilation of 30 titles in one single publication! Join us in this literary journey throughout different topics and subject matters ranging from: unpublished memories, tropical manifestations, intragenealogy, Why the letter E is everywhere?, the taste of truth, the aroma of existence, contemporary ruins, conversations between a cardinal and a roadrunner bird, and more!

A project by Mariana Castillo Deball
Contributors: Mario Bellatin, Koen Brams, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Santiago da Silva, Tim Etchells, Carla Faesler, Dario Gamboni, Dora García, Moosje Goosen, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon, Irene Kopelman, Adriana Lara, Pablo León de la Barra, Jesse Lerner, Juana Lomeli, Valeria Luiselli, Raimundas Malašauskas, Antoni Muntadas, Sophie Nys, Manuel Raeder, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer, Sergio Taborda, Heriberto Yépez

Published by bom dia boa tarde boa noite, on the occasion of the exhibition Never Odd or Even at Grimmuseum, Berlin
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen
Opening: Saturday October 1st, 19h
Performances with Ana Teixeira Pinto and Armando Andrade Tudela 20h
1.10–20.11.2011

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#3 - MG - Formal Sequences

"Every work of art can be regarded both as a historical event and as a hard-won solution to some problem. It is irrelevant now whether the event was original or conventional, accidental or willed, awkward or skillful. The important clue is that any solution points to the existence of some problem to which there have been other solutions, and that other solutions to this same problem will most likely be invented to follow the one now in view. As the solutions accumulate, the problem alters. The chain of solutions nevertheless discloses the problem."

(in: George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things)

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