Opplesing av James Hoff
Inventory Arousal is an artists’ book by American artist and publisher
James Hoff with writer, editor, and archivist Danny Snelson. The book
reassembles a set of reference texts originally gathered during a live,
transnational editorial performance. An associative lecture given by Hoff
in Oslo, featuring hundreds of images and hours of artists’ video, was
mirrored by Danny Snelson in Tokyo, via Skype, who simultaneously extracted
and manipulated a massive body of previously compiled texts concerning key
avant-garde figures, publications, works, and movements that Hoff
discussed. These sources included artist interviews, book reviews, magazine
articles, memoirs, stock lists and blog posts. Acting as a quasi-transcript
of this joint performance, Inventory Arousal reveals an unpredictable
narrative formed along the predictable contours of collective history.
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