Monday Begins on Saturday (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783943365740)

Monday Begins on Saturday is the title of a fantasy novel from the 1960s about a magical research institute in the Soviet Union, written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It is also the title of the first edition of Bergen Assembly, a new triennial of contemporary art. The project--which takes the form of an exhibition and this book--imagines a contemporary rewriting of the novel as an archipelago of fictitious research institutes. Through an aggregate narrative of essays, works of fiction, artworks, heterogeneous research materials, and curatorial notes, it delves into the idea that contemporary "artistic research" may be the place where the dialectical materialist magic of Monday Begins on Saturday has its afterlife.

Contributors
Jan Verwoert, Our Literal Speed, Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein, Renata Salecl, Benedict Seymour, Konstanze Schmitt, Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Ritwik Ghatak, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Stephan Dillemuth, Roee Rosen, Christian von Borries, Keti Chukhrov, Josef Dabernig, Olga Chernysheva, Wladyslaw Strzemiński, Carlfriedrich Claus et al.

Author: Ekaterina Degot
ISBN-10: 3943365743
ISBN-13: 9783943365740
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2013
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.45h x 7.09w x 0.94d