Dead Dove: Do Not Eat Perpetual Stew

Die Publikation Dead Dove: Do Not Eat Perpetual Stew erscheint als zweites Buch in der Serie Fine Companions der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien zusammen mit Mark Pezinger Books.

In this play—a perpetual stew—the so-called “accessories” and “props” of artists take center stage. No longer silent or subordinate, these objects speak, question, and disrupt, revealing the often-invisible infrastructures that shape artistic production. Their conversations unfold across systems of value, labor, authorship, and spectatorship, casting light on the backstage economies of the art world.
What was once peripheral becomes protagonist, as the tools of making articulate their own agency and implication in broader cultural, political, and institutional logics:
MICROPHONE Ok, but we are NOT going to produce anything, like I am strictly against adding any more objects …
STAPLER Sure, we agreed on that, no product.
PHONE …Yes, and we are for the LARGE shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal …

Autorin: Saffi Adler
Grafik: Astrid Seme Studio

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