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Wednesday 5 November at 7 pm Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory and episodes publishers are pleased to announce the publication of Casco Issues XI, which will be launched on Wednesday 5 November at 7 pm at Casco with a screening of the film ‘Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come on Petunia)’ (1984) by Gary Hill. The editors will be present to give an introduction about the book. Casco Issues is an annual publication that highlights strands of thought that lead out of Casco’s programme. Titled ‘An Ambiguous Case’, Issue XI has been edited by Emily Pethick, Marina Vishmidt and Tanja Widmann, and was developed through the process of a conversation on the subject of openness. This inquiry led into a discussion around a number of related terms – criticality, fractures, ambivalence, ambiguity, undecidability and conflict, to name a few – as well as distinctions between recognising openness as a condition, and practising, or doing, openness. The editors opened this question out to a number of artists and designers, including Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai (Pages), Gregory Bateson, Gregg Bordowitz, Judith Hopf, Jutta Koether, Runo Lagomarsino, Agency (Kobe Matthys), Metahaven, and The Otolith Group. The publication also includes a conversation between the editors and two ‘Metalogues’ by British anthropologist & sociologist Gregory Bateson; conversational speech acts that could be seen as creating a form of openness, producing moments of conflict, suspension and indeterminacy. Casco Issues XI An Ambiguous Case Edited by Emily Pethick, Marina Vishmidt and Tanja Widmann Contributions by Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai (Pages), Gregory Bateson, Gregg Bordowitz, Judith Hopf, Jutta Koether, Runo Lagomarsino, Agency (Kobe Matthys), Metahaven, The Otolith Group, Emily Pethick, Marina Vishmidt,Tanja Widmann Designed by Julia Born & Laurenz Brunner Published by Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utreht episode publishers, Rotterdam Orders: info@cascoprojects.org or info@episode-publishers.nl ISBN: 978-90-5973-108-0 www.cascoprojects.org www.episode-publishers.nl |