Games are forbidden in the labyrinth
By: Javier Téllez ; with contributions by Ruth Estévez, Hesse McGraw, and Dieter Roelstraete
Contributors: Estévez, Ruth, 1977- author; McGraw, Hesse, author; Roelstraete, Dieter, author; REDCAT (Art center); San Francisco Art Institute
Publisher: Stichting Roma Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789491843297
Subjects: Exhibitions; Psychiatry in art; Chess in art; Installations (Art)
Description: Javier Téllez holds a singular perspective on issues surrounding psychiatric treatment, mental illness, normalcy, and the spaces we construct to confine these vexing questions. This book comprises a visual essay, purportedly a guide to the rules of chess, yet interwoven with texts by philosophers, literary figures, sociologists, and others, while touching upon references as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch, the Rorschach test, electroconvulsive therapy, and the Sharon Tate murders. Emergent new possibilities are confined by the administration of norms, albeit within an empathetic space.
Notes: Issued with card illustrating white and black game pieces.

Catalog of an exhibition held at REDCAT, Los Angeles, April 5-June 1, 2014 ; Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, September 9-December 13, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Hesse McGraw; title: Games are forbidden in the labyrinth, or how do you pay chess? / Javier Téllez; title: "Abandon all reason, you who enter here" / Ruth Estévez; title: Javier Téllez and the critique of productive reason / Dieter Roelstraete.