Unknown Unknown

by Agnieszka Kurant, Raimundas Malasauskas, Jan Verwoert

In Ready Unmade, a piece commissioned by the frieze art fair, Kurant further explores the thin line between fiction and reality, purposelessness and function: the artist presents a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language. Both a reflection on nature behaving unnaturally and a caricature of the zoo-like atmosphere of the art fair and the self-reflexive communication of the art world. Referring to two similar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933128577
• ISBN13: 9781933128573
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 8.8"