Pedro Reyes : ad usum / to be used / edited by José L. Falconi ; [with contributions by] Lauren Berlant [and 17 others] ; translations, Lacey Pipkin, Lisa Crossman
xi, 501 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Mexico
Date:
2017
21st century
Notes:
Series information from publisher's website.
HMSG copy 39088019917079 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
Ad usum, ad hoc (or How to use this book) / José Luis Falconi -- Introduction / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Selected works. -- Capulas -- Compatibility test for couples -- A house for future cavemen -- Preaching to the birds -- Cacúmenes -- Pirámide flotante -- Instant rockstar -- Sombrero colectivo -- Zik zak -- Parque vertical -- Dream digestor -- Mural (Remix) -- Philosophical casino -- Leverage -- Alien report -- Palas por pistolas -- Ambigrams -- Moebius chair -- Gordian knot -- Ciclomóvil -- Surplus reality -- Baby Marx -- Solids of rotation -- Urban genome project -- Unrealized monument -- Sanatorium : Goodoo ; Cityleaks ; Epitaphs ; The Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes -- Pico della mirandola -- Los mutantes -- Mano-sillas -- Flat statues -- Disarm -- Ear -- Melodrama and other games : Melodrama ; Minefield ; Boom ; El pelele ; Feather fun ; Mirroring -- Disarm (Mechanized) -- Machine music -- Pharmasphere -- Colloquium -- Cuerpomático -- Navajas suizas -- Omniman -- pUN: The People's United Nations : #pUN times ; Blessing of the bees ; Why is it so hard to talk about population growth? ; The ghost of García Robles ; Force field analysis ; Chemotherapy for Gaia? -- The people's library -- Drone dove -- Entomofagia -- The grasswhopper -- Amendment to the amendment -- The permanent revolution -- Heads -- Spiritual speed date -- Doo-wop syllabus -- Ethnopharmacology -- Plato's cave -- Screen -- Totem -- El ekeko -- Satori -- Eunoia -- The Bobo doll experiment -- Sundial -- The birds -- Doomocracy -- The protesters -- Consultations. -- On agency / Antanas Mockus -- On art as therapy (and vice versa) / Javier Téllez -- On catharsis / Raphael Montañez Ortiz -- On consciousness ; On death / Alejandro Jodorowsky -- On education ; On ethics / Antanas Mockus -- On the exploitation of misery / Augusto Boal -- On freedom / Antanas Mockus -- On film / Javier Téllez -- On forgiveness / Alejandro Jodorowsky -- On humans as puppets / Lauren Berlant -- On the life of cities / Manuel de Landa -- On materials / Yona Friedman -- On mirror neurons / Alice Flaherty -- On the ontology of the puppet / Michael Hardt -- On social topology I ; On social topology II / Antanas Mockus -- On self-organization / Yona Friedman -- On serendipity / Alice Flaherty -- On sowing trust / Antanas Mockus -- On the theory of moral sentiments / Lauren Berlant -- Critical dossier. -- Modernism as toolbox / Robin Adèle Greeley -- Grimaces of cultural Marxism--Pedro Reyes's Baby Marx / Johan F. Hartle -- Description as prescription / Adam Kleinman -- Collective estrangement (By design) / Liz Munsell -- Agent spotting / Doris Sommer -- The end is here: a curator's tour through Doomocracy / Nato Thompson
Summary:
For more than a decade the Mexico City-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes has been turning existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through collective imagination. By breaking open failed models and retooling them with space to project alternatives, Reyes's art enables productive diversions of otherwise destructive forces. Ad Usum: To Be Used is the second volume in the series Focus on Latin American Art and Agency, which is dedicated to contemporary cultural agents, a term that is perhaps best understood through the words of Reyes himself: "changing our individual habits has no degree of effectiveness" as "progress is only significant if you start to multiply by 10, by 100, by 1,000." Rather than merely illustrate his work, this collection of images, interviews, and critical essays is intended as an apparatus for multiplying the possibilities when art becomes a resource for the common good. This full-color illustrated survey of Reyes's projects includes critical essays by José Luis Falconi, Robin Greeley, Johan Hartle, Adam Kleinman, and Doris Sommer, as well as interviews between the artist and such seminal thinkers as Lauren Berlant, Michael Hardt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Antanas Mockus.
