{"id":11664,"title":"Antelope","dimensions":"14 x 20 cm, 72 p, language: English, publisher: Mousse Publishing, ISBN: 9788867490547","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2026/516","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"antelope","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/024/472/large/antelope.jpg?1408114815","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e14.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntelope \u003c/em\u003eis the first in a trilogy of books (\u003cem\u003eAntelope \u003c/em\u003e(2013)\u003cem\u003e, Leopard \u003c/em\u003e(2013)\u003cem\u003e, Vulture \u003c/em\u003e(unfinished)). The story involves the use of a department store at night as the settings for a series of performances by a radical theatre group in a university town. The performances escalate to a point where they become \u003cem\u003erealer than real \u003c/em\u003eand eventually cost the lives of a few participants. The groups\u0026rsquo; run ends when a young girl is discovered dead in the perfume department one morning. A mass arrest occurs at a local movie theatre the following evening. The story is told from multiple vantage points throughout which a love story is woven.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntelope \u003c/em\u003eis an artwork that takes the form of a novel, that takes the form of the artist writing a novel and that takes the form of him telling people \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;m an author who wrote a novel\u0026quot;. The content of the novel is closely aligned with the pieces of text one often finds in Matthew Brannon\u0026#39;s prints and in the titles of his artworks. The novel complicates, and occasionally generates, the sculptures and prints that Brannon made and vice versa.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel \u003cem\u003eAntelope \u003c/em\u003eprovided the key for the various sculptures in the exhibition Department Store at Night (Five Impossible Films, I)\u003cem\u003e \u003c/em\u003ewhich took place in May of 2013 in Florence Italy at the Marino Marini Museum. It was published as an independent book included in a plastic sleeve along with the exhibitions catalogue. The sleeve and the two books were published by Mousse Books on the occasion of the exhibition in an edition of 250. A sculpture called \u003cem\u003eUnlearn \u003c/em\u003e(2012) of a perfume shelf and a print called \u003cem\u003eDouble Features \u003c/em\u003e(2013) of a film festival both refer to the novel \u003cem\u003eAntelope. \u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://matthewbrannon.com/literature/\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.moussepublishing.com/products-page/product/matthew-brannon-in-italy-its-called-department-store-at-night/?status=moreinfo\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2555,"name":"Matthew Brannon","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}