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Domino Cannibal
By Cuauhtemoc Medina (Edited by)

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Paperback, 256 pages
Published
Spain, 22 February 2017

Domino cannibal is proposed as a counter-model to the usual types of artistic participation, presenting it as a platform made up of overlaps and discontinuities between various artists who engage with one another successively and in stages in the same space, cannibalizing (reinterpreting, demolishing and appropriating) the work of the other participants. The relationship between dominos and cannibalism is not as gratuitous as it may seem. On the one hand, the Manifesto antropofago (Cannibal Manifesto), written in 1928 by the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade, suggested cannibalism as a metaphor for rebellion against the myths of originality and cultural object. Based on Chinese dice games, and taken, like pasta, to Italy, it ended up spreading with the Iberian colonization of the new world and become the most popular table game in Latin American societies. The aim of Domino cannibal is to bring together all this imagery by inviting a group of artists-Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera and Francis Alys among others-to act in a space established not in terms of autonomy and individual identity but rather as a venue for ongoing negotiation between languages, materials and aesthetics. ILLUSTRATIONS 240 images *


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Domino cannibal is proposed as a counter-model to the usual types of artistic participation, presenting it as a platform made up of overlaps and discontinuities between various artists who engage with one another successively and in stages in the same space, cannibalizing (reinterpreting, demolishing and appropriating) the work of the other participants. The relationship between dominos and cannibalism is not as gratuitous as it may seem. On the one hand, the Manifesto antropofago (Cannibal Manifesto), written in 1928 by the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade, suggested cannibalism as a metaphor for rebellion against the myths of originality and cultural object. Based on Chinese dice games, and taken, like pasta, to Italy, it ended up spreading with the Iberian colonization of the new world and become the most popular table game in Latin American societies. The aim of Domino cannibal is to bring together all this imagery by inviting a group of artists-Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera and Francis Alys among others-to act in a space established not in terms of autonomy and individual identity but rather as a venue for ongoing negotiation between languages, materials and aesthetics. ILLUSTRATIONS 240 images *

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EAN
9788434312623
ISBN
843431262X
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Illustrated
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23.9 x 16.7 x 2.2 centimeters (0.60 kg)

About the Author

Cuauhtemoc Medina is widely respected independent art critic, curator, and historian, and a former associate curator of Latin American Art at the Tate.

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