{"id":30403,"title":"Confidences / Baseline","dimensions":"11.7 x 16.4 cm, 176 p., language : English, publisher : TLTRPreß, Berlin, ISBN : 978-3-9819640-5-9","date_begin":"2021-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2031/8","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"confidences-baseline","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/303/medium_500/ivan_cheng-2.jpeg?1620380910","cached_actor_names":"Ivan Cheng","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/000/072/303/large/ivan_cheng-2.jpeg?1620380910","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfidences / Baseline \u003c/em\u003eplays with the vampire novel like a dollhouse. Characters who variously believe in the power of theatre and performance become entangled with grief, desire, and the unknown. What does a rehearsal come to mean when a vampire lives forever? Baseline is the first in a series of books that fetishise nightclubs for their inaccessibility. Deluded realities antici\u0026shy;pate the transformative sensuality of penetration. In his second novel, artist Ivan Cheng maintains his fixation on structures for audiences between public and private.\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\u003eThis novel was written for a solo exhibition in a small space in Vienna, to accompany a cookie box that Ivan Cheng\u0026nbsp;commissioned. He\u0026nbsp;was writing prose increasingly during the covid period of reduced performances to continue staying active in writing, and try to keep playing with structure and form.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ivancheng.com/projects/confidences-baseline\"\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":4223,"name":"Ivan Cheng","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}