Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik & Jos van der Pol) – Were It As If, Beyond An Institution That Is

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Author: Bik vander Pol, Defne Ayas
Publisher: Witte de With Publishers
Year: 2017
ISBN: 978-91-43594-49-2

Softcover, 206 pages, English
Design: Bardhi Haliti
Condition: as new

—Participants
Defne Ayas, Bik Van der Pol, Manuel Borja-Villel, Marianna Hovhannisyan, Brian Kuan Wood, Doreen Mende, Peter Osborne, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Samuel Saelemakers, Terry Smith, Ana Teixeira Pinto

Whom does a contemporary art institute like Witte de With belong to? How are its stories told and untold? And could a staging of its exhibition history through traces, remains, and scars constitute an act of resistance against the tide of accumulation? This publication follows WERE IT AS IF by Bik Van der Pol as a case study and much more. Many-voiced, it enlists the power of fragments as points of provocation to engage with methodologies of the contemporary.

This publication is selected as one of 33 Best Dutch Book Designs 2017.

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