{"id":30405,"title":"Ferrara deux (Faits divers)","dimensions":"15 x 22 cm, 136 p., language : English, publisher : self-published, ISBN : N/A","date_begin":"2020-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2031/2","stream_count_app":11,"permalink":"ferrara-deux-faits-divers-7005b0b0-5f4b-44d3-86a6-2e03abf73955","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/308/medium_500/ivan_cheng-1.jpeg?1620381387","cached_actor_names":"Ivan Cheng","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/308/large/ivan_cheng-1.jpeg?1620381387","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaits Divers\u0026nbsp;(faits divers)\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eare the various reports in a news bulletin, miscellaneous human interest stories, theorised by Roland Barthes as \u0026lsquo;total\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;immanent\u0026rsquo; information.\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eFerrara Deux (faits divers)\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003escrolls around the discovered corpse of a talented street musician named Landau, mangled and sealed into vacuum bags in the walk-in of a modern Italian-American restaurant. Street performance is content for an attention economy, playing on authenticities and profiting from recognition.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe attempt of the novel reformulates selections of performance texts (Standard Stare, Christine\u0026#39;s Bullet, Dopo Oracle, Corpse Halo, Evangelisms, Clarities Bridges, Haunted House, Phantom Cigarette) from 2018\u0026ndash;20 into the highly accessible format of a murder mystery novel. Drawing from an interest in fan fiction\u0026rsquo;s methods of augmenting and eroticising a fan\u0026rsquo;s commons of characters, the plot centres around the murder of a street musician \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;a busker, exterior to a waged form of labour. Ivan Cheng\u0026nbsp;begun to write an essay around the relationship of busking and public space to online quarantine streaming in relation to a writer\u0026rsquo;s grant from Montez Press. The novel\u0026rsquo;s title invokes the celebrated Italian renaissance city and Roland Barthes\u0026rsquo; theorisation of the now antiquated various reports of a newspaper; the artist\u0026#39;s approach to this writing project was to move the previously oral into printed form, while also reflecting (mid-lockdown) on the precarious nature of physical presence and the possibilities for dematerialisation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis novel was written for a group exhibition in Amsterdam, and accompanied by \u003ca href=\"http://ivancheng.com/projects/virtue-and-the-city\"\u003e\u0026lsquo;reading rooms\u0026rsquo;\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ivancheng.com/projects/ferrara-deux-faits-divers\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":4223,"name":"Ivan Cheng","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}