{"id":18079,"title":"Life: A Novel","dimensions":"16 x 10.5 cm, 108 p, language: English, publisher: Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, ISBN: 9783960981","date_begin":"2017-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":14,"permalink":"life-a-novel","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/039/797/medium_500/hannah_black_life.jpg?1518711462","cached_actor_names":"Hannah Black","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/039/797/large/hannah_black_life.jpg?1518711462","poster_credits":"Walther Konig","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHannah Black cowrote this science-fiction narrative with New York-based artist/musician Juliana Huxtable; in its pages each author plays the character of a risk analyst \u0026lsquo;returning from the dead\u0026rsquo;, somehow to accompany or prevent the apocalypse. \u0026lsquo;I have retired from risk, and now nothing can happen to me. I\u0026rsquo;m a single-celled organism carved out of the white bone of the world. Mind is a miracle,\u0026rsquo; writes Huxtable. \u0026lsquo;You don\u0026rsquo;t have to tell me what you were by virtue of still being,\u0026rsquo; answers Black.\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\u003eLife\u003c/em\u003e was presented in Black\u0026rsquo;s solo exhibition\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSmall Room\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eat Vienna\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;Mumok (16 March\u0026ndash;18 June, 2017). The show\u0026nbsp;and accompanying publication was curated and edited by Marianne Dobner and published via\u0026nbsp;Cologne\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;Buchhandlung Walther K\u0026ouml;nig. \u003cem\u003eLife \u003c/em\u003epresents Black\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;ideas in collaboration with artist and musician Huxtable\u0026nbsp;and is designed by artist and DJ Soraya Lutangu\u0026nbsp;(aka\u0026nbsp;Bonaventure). The science-fiction narrative is described as a \u0026#39;scenario\u0026nbsp; of impending apocalypse [about] two risk analysts returning from retirement to attempt to avert the end of the world\u0026#39;, and the title refers to a Wikipedia entry on \u0026#39;Life\u0026#39;. Black\u0026rsquo;s exhibition revolves around the question of \u0026#39;collective being, \u0026quot;life\u0026quot; as an abstraction, and the uses of ancestry and lineage.\u0026#39; The opening night hosted an apocalyptic performance by Hannah Black and Bonaventure.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://artreview.com/reviews/ar_summer_2017_review_hannah_black/\"\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":3136,"name":"Hannah Black","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}