BOOK: Recipes for an Encounter

Edited by Marisa Jahn (Artist and Co-Director of Pond), Candice Hopkins (Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Western Front), Berin Golonu (Associate Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco)Release Date: Fall/Winter 2008

Publisher: Western Front with Pond: art, activism, & ideas

cultural studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and political science

A book to be released in Fall 2008, "Recipes for an Encounter" (published by Western Front Exhibitions with Pond: art, activism, & ideas) functions as a literary or discursive extension to the group exhibition "Kits for an Encounter" on view at Western Front April 25 to May 31, 2008. As instructions that foretell of future culinary moments based on those from the past, the act of writing a recipe always occurs as a deliberate pause, temporally displaced from its actuation. Consider, for example, computer viruses whose execution might result in a technological disaster; instructions on making the ideal Molotov Cocktail; or preparatory directions for the antidote to a life-threatening poison that is otherwise tenuously passed through speech over millennia. For these written constitutions that are intended to change or preserve the future, their adherence only enunciates the interpretive space between writing and enactment. Through an interdisciplinary lens of cultural studies, literary studies, and political science, "Recipes for an Encounter" explores the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed. MORE INFO SOON!


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Western Front (www.front.bc.ca) - Promoting the role of the artist in determining the cultural ecology. Located in Vancouver, The Western Front Society is one of Canada's first artist-run-centres. For over 30 years, it has developed an international reputation as a centre for experimental art practice and performance.

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