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Please join Adult Contemporary Reading Group for our discussion of Seth Price’s ‘Dedicated to Life’, a collection of recent writings published by Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in 2020.The book is no longer in print but is available as a PDF from Price’s website and should be read in advance of the meeting.
ACRG will focus on texts concerning art and culture, including both fiction and non-fiction. The reading group is open to all and meets on the last Sunday of each month (with times and locations subject to possible variation). Suggestions for future texts, either in physical or digital publication formats, are welcome at any time.
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I was about to send this to press when Covid-19 abruptly pulled us into a new age. Art made before the rupture suddenly looks different, flickering with new meanings and demeanings. My book seemed to shift colors in my hands.
Back in 2002, in the aftershocks of 9/11, I wrote ‘Dispersion’. That essay considered then-nascent networks as spaces for corporate exploitation and warfare, and imagined an art that might flourish in the cracks of the new system. The final sentence was, “It may be that we are standing at the beginning of something.” We certainly were at the beginning of something, but whatever it was, that thing is now over. We find ourselves at a new threshold.
In 2013, I set out to write an experimental Young Adult novel. I wanted to rewire some of the feelings I felt coursing through an era marked by the wars of 9/11, recession and debt, climate change, the rise of Big Tech and social media, outrageous luxury and decadence. I gave up after eight months, the book was a mess. It didn’t help that I had interlarded it with my own, older essays. I had recently received invitations to publish my collected writings, but I declined, preferring to steal the idea and do it my way…
http://www.sethpricestudio.com/bookarchive/Seth%20Price%20Dedicated%20to%20Life%20-%20DIGITAL.pdf
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Seth Price (b. 1973, Palestine) is a New York-based artist working in a wide range of media, spanning sculpture, painting, photography, video and digital media, as well as music and poetry. Resisting categorisation, Price has over the course of his two-decade career continually examined concepts of visual culture and its evolution in relations to the ubiquitous rise of technology and digital life; interrogating its impact upon the construction and interpretation of the self.
http://www.distributedhistory.com/
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