No Telos!
No Telos!
No Telos is a collaborative artistic research project for exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing and open-ended activity within creative practice and during uncertain times. The project considers different tactics for resisting the increasingly outcome-motivated or achievement-oriented tendencies of contemporary culture, by shifting emphasis from a mode of telos- or goal-driven productivity towards experimental forms of process-led exploration, subversive playfulness and wilful irresolution. No Telos was conceived as a counter-measure to the ubiquitous demands to do more and more — faster and faster.
This artist's book comprises a series of 'scores' drawing on exercises and practices first developed and tested in Venice. The city is is approached as a live laboratory for artistic research.
This highly tactile edition is printed with multiple special features including a screen printed cover, multiple speciality papers, french folds, Risograph printed sections and removable inserts.
130 Pages, 70 Images
Softback
210 x 273mmEnglish
Published by Beam Editions
ISBN 978-1-9164200-8-3
Limited Edition 200
IN STOCK
Delivery times:
UK: 2–3 days | Europe: 5 days | Rest of World: 7 working days
Featured artists:
Andrew Brown, Emma Cocker, Steve Dutton, Katja Hock ,Tracy Mackenna, Danica Maier, Andy Pepper, Elle Reynolds, Derek Sprawson