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#04834

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Letter to a Friend

Artist

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Date

2011

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

ISBN

978-3-7757-2852-2

Size

17.5 × 24.5 × 0.3 cm

Length

48 

Number 003 in the series: Documenta 13: 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken (100 Notes – 100 Thoughts)

In her Letter to a Friend, dOCUMENTA (13)’s artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev gives an insight into her working process, outlining some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition. In shifting voices, such as storytelling, theoretical speculation, travel diary, press release, or critical reflection, she describes dOCUMENTA (13) as something more than an exhibition—for her it is a state of mind. It is a constellation of artistic acts and gestures that are already taking place as well as an exhibition that will open on June 6, 2012, and that will run for 100 days. Given the heterogeneity of the audience it addresses and the historical development of group exhibitions as “a non-commercial place to intensely aggregate,” what can this exhibition be today? Opening the boundaries of disciplines and fields of knowledge and emphasizing the procedural questions, dOCUMENTA (13) is coming together by thinking through a number of composite entangled ontologies instead of following a defined curatorial concept.