DIS-or-DER A Publishing Exercise
Opening: 23 June 2018, Saturday 12:00 hrs.
Exhibition: 23 – 30 June on view by appointment.
Venue: Vernacular Institute (Benjamin Franklin 50, Casa C, Escandón, Mexico City, MX 11800)
A page is a river, a page is a blinking verb, a page is an architect. A page is a dancing body, is a singular noun, is a time machine. A page is an imaginary scene, a __________ and an aura for a book.
DIS-or-DER: A Publishing Exercise conveys the idea that pages – the element of books – can be staged in an exhibition as a site-specific installation. A focus of the exhibition is to push the definition of printed matter into the architectural. DIS-or-DER: A Publishing Exercise plays with the format of the book and reflects on the medium by binding together editorial and spatial perceptions.
The exhibition is initiated by Cotton Disco, founder of SUPER ADD studio (Taiwan), as a warm-up presentation of the artist’s forthcoming publication DIS-or-DER. The subject of the book’s still-life compositions explores the relationship of everyday objects and artistic scenes.
DIS-or-DER: A Publishing Exercise is part of Vernacular Institute’s ongoing Book Club series.
DIS-or-DER：一項出版的具體實踐
開幕： 2018.06.23（六）12:00pm.
展覽: 2018.06.23 – 30，預約參觀制。
地點：Vernacular Institute（Benjamin Franklin 50, Casa C, Escandón, Mexico City, MX 11800）
書頁是一片河川，書頁是惱人的動詞，書頁是一幢建物。
書頁是舞動中的身軀，是個單一名詞，是台時光機。
書頁是想像中的場景，是＿＿＿＿＿，是書本的靈光。
「DIS-or-DER：一項出版的具體實踐」，旨在傳達書頁 — 作為書本的組成元素 — 能夠以限地製作的裝置形式被建置在一場展演中。這場展演，專注在將出版印物的定義向建築的層次推進。
「DIS-or-DER：一項出版的具體實踐」，玩味於書本的形式，並且反思如何作為文本與空間概念的媒介。
本次展覽由SUPER ADD工作室的創辦人Cotton Disco所策劃，同時也作為藝術家即將發表的出版品 DIS-or-DER 的暖場。書本主題靜物構圖，穿梭及探索圍繞在日常物件與藝術場景之間的關係。
「DIS-or-DER：一項出版的具體實踐」，為 Vernacular Institute 持續在進行的一項讀書會系列活動。
*實習生王芷綾對本文翻譯亦有貢獻。
