Lying freely
By: Ruth Buchanan
Contributors: Bennewith, David; Jan van Eyck Akademie; Casco, Office for Art, Design, and Theory
Publisher: Jan van Eyck Academie; Casco; Distributed by Clouds
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Maastricht; Utrecht; Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9789072076410
Subjects: Exhibitions; Women artists; New Zealand Art
Description: Lying Freely is the 4th and final part of the itinerant project by artist Ruth Buchanan. Here the 3 previous stages of the project meet within and are also confronted by the space of the book. The book was made in close collaboration with designer David Bennewith and developed accumulatively as each stage of the project was 'completed'. Over the course of 2 years Buchanan investigated questions surrounding the tension between private need and public appearance, individual agency and collectively received legacy, producing a series of works that each dealt with particular constellations of figure, location and format. The 3 stages consisted of a guided tour, theatre piece and installation. The book behaves on the one hands as a schematic or script for the body of work, drawing boundaries - and on the other hand it proposes a method, an approach, that suggests constant repetition and following, constant reconfiguration. The book becomes an experiment in sharing material, sharing space; absorbing and reflecting its own conditions and the conditions under which it becomes public.
Notes: Title from cover.

Limited ed. of 500.

Part 4 of the project was held at the Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, March 27th-May 2nd, 2010.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Nothing is closed; title: pt. 2. Circular facts; title: pt. 3. Several attentions; title: pt. 4. Lying freely; title: Essay & postscript.