{"id":5280,"title":"Becoming Tarden","dimensions":"20.8 x 13.4 cm, 181 p, language: English, publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Print Craft, ISBN: N/A","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":10,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/837","stream_count_app":55,"permalink":"becoming-tarden","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/000/010/695/large/Artistnovel_060.jpg?1342085424","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The fairytale of the artist and the secret service just had to end badly\u0026quot; \u0026mdash;The Wall Street Journal. In 2005, Jill Magid was commissioned by the Dutch secret service (AIVD) to create a work that would \u0026quot;reveal the human face\u0026quot; of the organization. During the next three years she met with 18 agents who volunteered to be interviewed, but remained anonymous even to her. The project resulted in a variety of forms, among them her non-fiction novel, \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e. Forty percent of the manuscript was censored by the AIVD in 2008. After legal negotiations with the organization, Magid agreed to let it seize the uncensored body of the book after being exposed\u0026mdash;under glass and out of reach\u0026mdash;from her solo exhibition Authority to Remove at the Tate Modern in London, early 2010. The redacted paperback edition of \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e was published later that year.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Magid seeks intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems she chooses to work with\u0026mdash;such as police, CCTV, and in this case, secret services, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. The artist seeks the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility\u0026mdash; and, with all of this, their potential reversibility. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e is part of a larger body of works, The Spy Project. The Spy Project includes performance, prints, neon, sculpture, and video, and manifested over the course of four years, with some works responding and transforming based upon the Dutch secret service\u0026rsquo;s (legal) reaction to them. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e is Jill Magid\u0026rsquo;s third book; she recently published her fourth. The books are all related to a larger body of work, but all can function autonomously.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.becomingtarden.net\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Het sprookje van de kunstenaar en de geheime dienst moest wel slecht aflopen.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; The Wall Street Journal. In 2005 kreeg Jill Magid de opdracht van de Duitse geheime dienst (AIVD) om een werk te maken dat \u0026lsquo;het menselijk gezicht\u0026rsquo; van de organisatie zou tonen. De drie volgende jaren ontmoette ze achttien agenten die zich aanboden om te worden ge\u0026iuml;nterviewd, maar zelfs voor haar anoniem bleven. Het resultaat van dat project kwam in meerdere vormen, zoals haar non-fictieroman, \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e. Veertig procent van het manuscript werd door de AIVD gecensureerd in 2008. Na juridische onderhandelingen met de organisatie stond Magid toe dat het ongecensureerde deel van het boek werd in beslag genomen na te zijn tentoongesteld \u0026ndash; onder glas en buiten bereik \u0026ndash; op haar solotentoonstelling Authority to Remove in het Tate Modern in Londen, begin 2010. De geredigeerde paperbackversie van \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e werd later dat jaar uitgebracht.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Magid gaat op zoek naar intieme relaties tussen onpersoonlijke structuren. De systemen waar ze mee werkt \u0026ndash; zoals de politie en bewakingscamera\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ndash; functioneren met een afstand, met een groothoeklens, en ze maken iedereen gelijk en wissen het individu uit. De kunstenaar gaat op zoek naar de potenti\u0026euml;le zachtheid en intimiteit van hun technologie\u0026euml;n, de vergissing van hun alleswetende standpunt, de manieren waarop ze het geheugen bewaren (en toch neigen te vergeten), hun diepgewortelde positie in de maatschappij (de oorzaak voor hun onzichtbaarheid), hun autoriteit, hun ogenschijnlijke onaantastbaarheid \u0026ndash; en, met dit alles, de mogelijkheid om dat om te keren. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e maakt deel uit van een grotere groep werken, The Spy Project. Dat bevat performance, prints, neon, sculpturen, video en kwam tot stand in vier jaar tijd, met sommige werken die interageren en een antwoord formuleren op de (juridische) reactie van de Duitse geheime dienst tegen hen. \u003cem\u003eBecoming Tarden\u003c/em\u003e is het derde boeke van Jill Magid, recent publiceerde ze haar vierde. De boeken maken allemaal deel uit van een groter geheel, maar kunnen autonoom functioneren.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.becomingtarden.net\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Design: \u003ca href=\"http://emilylessard.com\"\u003eEmily Lessard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"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":1862,"name":"Jill Magid","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}