Suddenly a whole year has passed without any postings, which is indicative of different things, including the glut of work. In anticipation of lengthier updates, a short summary of odds and sods. Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life is out in the world, including some musings by me on trying to make sense of a heap of material generated by nearly thirty years of practice within the space of a book (below Kathrin’s comment on mine), marked by several launches, with more planned for autumn 2023. In addition, multiple PARSE Journal issues have gone live, including a bumper multi-parter on ‘Violence’, one on ‘Conviviality and Contamination’ and one on ‘Citations’ due to be launched in September.
Meanwhile, other projects are in the works, including Not Going It Alone, edited by Paul O’Neill with Elizabeth Larison and myself, to which I have also contributed a short text titled ‘Beyond Hierarchy: Articulating Collaboration’, due out this autumn, published by apexart. Another book, which will be one of the last in the Occasional Table series of Open Editions is in process. Titled Curious, it will contain a series of heavily (re-)edited existing interviews by Paul ONeill with a selection of key curatorial voices reflecting on their practice and position, due early 2024. Following a series of conversations under the moniker ‘And Others’, former colleague Lina Džuverović and fellow editors Helena Reckitt and Chris McCormack and I are working towards a collaboratively authored text, titled ‘The Third Hand” Claire, Bernadette and Friends’. Last, but not least, while rounding off assessments for this year’s teaching, doing a talk for the RCA Curating Contemporary Art summer course, plans for next year are well on their way, including a short online course on Publishing, Editing, Writing…
Gerrie van Noord 