Shop > Catalogues

#16140

If Need Be

Price
$60.00
Date
0000
Publisher
Building Fictions
Format
Catalogues
ISBN
978-90-833756-1-8
Size
23 × 30 × 3 cm
Length
316 pp
Genre
Environment, Contemporary Art, Social Practice
Description

If Need Be presents a constellation of stories about water scarcity in the arid regions of Central Asia, ancient Persia, and the American Great Plains. Artist duo Pejvak strings together a series of hallucinatory events involving artificial glaciers, dams and other human attempts to bring water under control. Giving equal weight to gossip, legend and historical fact, Pejvak takes the role of an unreliable narrator, situating the struggle for water within the struggle for the historical record.

This publication was made as a continuation of If Need Be, an exhibition by Pejvak at Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium (12.06. – 22.08.2021). The exhibition was curated by Tim Roerig.

Design: Rudy Guedj and Timur Akhmetov
Contributing authors: Anisa Sabiri, Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Anna Engelhardt & Sasha Shestakova), Benjamin Filler, Irakli Qolbaia, Dina Cheraghvand, Farshad Tavakoli, Masoud Borbor and Pejvak

  1. If Need Be
  2. If Need Be
Images:12
 

Related Items

  1. Jennifer Rose Sciarrino: Ruffled Follicles and a Tangled Tongue
  2. Karen Love and Elizabeth May: Weathervane
  3. Stefanie Hessler: Prospecting Ocean
  4. Felix Kalmenson: Conversations
  5. David Askevold: Red Rider
  6. David Buchan: Inside the Image
  7. Eric Cameron: In the Picture and Lawn
  8. Robert Flack and Andrew Zealley: This is True to Me
  9. Eldon Garnet: Trembling
  10. Douglas Gordon: Through a Looking Glass
  11. Cornelia Hess Honeggen: The Future’s Mirror
  12. Jenny Holzer: AM Catalogue no.13, 1989
  13. Carl Skelton: The Tourist
  14. Berit Jensen: Relative States of Horror Vacui
  15. Garry Neill Kennedy: AM Catalogue no.19, 1997
  16. Jorge Pardo: Dynamisms
  17. Andy Patton: A Certain Kind of Blue
  18. Michelango Pistoletto
  19. Heinz-Gunter Prager: H.G. Prager
  20. Anne Ramsden: Residence
  21. Susan Schuppli: Domicile
  22. Serge Spitzer