{"id":14008,"title":"Green","dimensions":"11 x 17,5 cm, 180 p., language : English, publisher : Publication Studio Rotterdam, ISBN : 978-94-92308-06-1","date_begin":"2016-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/374","stream_count_app":14,"permalink":"green","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/000/032/176/large/book_cover_green_hou_chien_cheng.jpg?1466527966","poster_credits":"Publication Studio Rotterdam","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a series of distinctly filmic and culturally ambiguous settings the reader is introduced to Albert Green, his childhood, the dress that catalyzes his gender expression, and the cast of characters that engage \u003cem\u003eGreen \u003c/em\u003ein their fetishistic desires.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreen \u003c/em\u003eis the second episode of a novel trilogy \u0026ndash; \u003cem\u003eOrchestrating the Borrowed\u003c/em\u003e, in which the worlds of artist\u0026#39;s autobiography are explored and the concept of borrowed identity is examined. The trilogy contains \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/brown?locale=en\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrown\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreen \u003c/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhite\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGreen \u003c/em\u003eHou tenderly and jauntily entwines harsh realities with unique human insights, effected by the experience of growing up differently. The second in a series of three fictive-autobiographies, \u003cem\u003eGreen\u003c/em\u003e was written while Hou was living the life of Albert Green, his novel\u0026#39;s transgendered protagonist. \u003cem\u003eGreen \u003c/em\u003e(and the entire trilogy) is very much a work that is both literary and artistic. For it transpires social issues by writing text, and creating visual works, that respond to the researched subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://houchiencheng.com/index.php?/screenplay/green\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"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":2869,"name":"Hou Chien Cheng","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}