MONDAY BEGINS ON SATURDAY

edited by David Riff & Ekaterina Degot

      Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2013 - First Edition

      Softcover: 344 pages

      Language: English

      Dimensions: 18 x 24 cm

Monday Begins on Saturday is the title of a fantasy novel from the 1960s about a magical research institute in the Soviet Union, written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It is also the title of the first edition of Bergen Assembly, a new triennial of contemporary art. The project—which takes the form of an exhibition and this book—imagines a contemporary rewriting of the novel as an archipelago of fictitious research institutes. Through an aggregate narrative of essays, works of fiction, artworks, heterogeneous research materials, and curatorial notes, it delves into the idea that contemporary “artistic research” may be the place where the dialectical materialist magic of Monday Begins on Saturday has its afterlife.

Contributions by CHRISTIAN VON BORRIES, OLGA CHERNYSHEVA, KETI CHUKHROV, CARLFRIEDRICH CLAUS, JOSEF DABERNIG, STEPHAN DILLEMUTH, RITWIK GHATAK, BORIS GROYS, PAVEL PEPPERSTEIN, ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO, ROEE ROSEN, RENATA SALECL, KONSTANZE SCHMITT, BENEDICT SEYMOUR, OUR LITERAL SPEED, WŁADYSŁAW STRZEMIŃSKI, JAN VERWOERT, PELIN TAN and ANTON VIDOKLE, CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER.

First edition issued in 2013 by the Sternberg Press. 249 colour illustrations. Book design by textandpictures.

Out of print.

Brand new, sealed copy.

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