{"id":22606,"title":"Richard Roe","dimensions":"10.8 x 17.6 cm, 72 p, language: English, publisher: Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-3-95679-464-3","date_begin":"2019-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/294","stream_count_app":22,"permalink":"richard-roe","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/049/129/medium_500/Coburn_Richard-Roe_Cover364.jpg?1571325226","cached_actor_names":"Tyler Coburn","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":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/049/129/large/Coburn_Richard-Roe_Cover364.jpg?1571325226","poster_credits":"Luke Gould","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Roe \u003c/i\u003eis the fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law when the real name of someone is withheld, or when a corpse can\u0026rsquo;t be identified. Richard Roe is a known unknown, a one-size-fits-all, a potentially everyone and actually no one. Divided into seven fragmentary sections, this memoir gives voice to the legal fictions that creep around the margins of selfhood\u0026mdash;and that increasingly dictate the terms of economic and political process. It draws on numerous concepts of personhood from legal, psychological, linguistic, and metaphysical realms, including ancient Roman juridical theory; medieval writings on materialism; and arguments, of the last two centuries, for the legal personhood of corporations, rivers, and other elements of the natural world.\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\u003eRichard Roe\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;is a multi-part project commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and curated by Cory Scozzari, comprising an orchid hybrid that Tyler Coburn has named after the legal person \u0026#39;Richard Roe\u0026#39;; the fictional memoir written by Roe; and a performance of that text. The project builds on a convention particular to Singapore, wherein orchid hybrids are named after politicians and celebrities \u0026ndash; in effect, as a means of cultural diplomacy. In the summer of 2017, Coburn\u0026nbsp;developed a relationship with an orchid grower in Singapore who cultivates many of its famous hybrids. For a fee, he let Coburn legally name one of his flowers. As this name (\u003cem\u003eAranda Richard Roe\u003c/em\u003e) has entered the \u003ca href=\"http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticulturaldatabase/orchidregister/orchiddetails.asp?ID=1008951\"\u003eregistry\u003c/a\u003e of the Royal Horticultural Society in the United Kingdom, it is now bound to every version of this hybrid in the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1888\u0026amp;l=en\u0026amp;bookId=781\"\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":3698,"name":"Tyler Coburn","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}