Cloud
Chamber takes its roots in a performance project, titled The Guests 做东, devised by Verina Gfader for the
11th Shanghai Biennale, ‘Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and
Stories’. Departing from the inclusion of the biennale audience to write a
future folk tale, Cloud Chamber invites to
an array of voices, who loosely respond to a call for: A vision/
proposal/ script for how one may have to approach ‘cosmological quest’
when thinking forwards – towards the 22nd century; or what exactly the
proposition of a ‘cosmological quest’ in turn asks us (a commons) to do. It is
a book on: fiction and translation and translation through time; post literacy;
world picturing-world typing; and cartographic entanglements and expressions of
subjectivity; through the lens a social imaginary of worlding or cosmological
quest. Art at its core?
Contributions by Nikos
Papastergiadis, Rebecca Carson, Sarat Maharaj, Tess Maunder, Simon Roy
Christensen, Liu Tian, Chang Tsong-zung, Raqs Media Collective, Masanao Abe,
Nabuqi and The Guests.
Cloud Chamber
Artist book by Verina Gfader
Editors: Verina Gfader and The Guests
Graphic design: Anni’s and Louise Hold Sidenius
Printing: Officin, Copenhagen
Distribution: Mathias Kokholm, Antipyrine
Edition: 100
ISBN 978-87-93108-96-7
(c) 2017/2396