[{"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","short_description":"","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_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","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,"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","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","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":30403,"title":"Confidences / Baseline","dimensions":"11.7 x 16.4 cm, 176 p., language : English, publisher : TLTRPreß, Berlin, ISBN : 978-3-9819640-5-9","date_begin":"2021-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","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 2031/8","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"confidences-baseline","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/303/medium_500/ivan_cheng-2.jpeg?1620380910","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,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/072/303/large/ivan_cheng-2.jpeg?1620380910","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfidences / Baseline \u003c/em\u003eplays with the vampire novel like a dollhouse. Characters who variously believe in the power of theatre and performance become entangled with grief, desire, and the unknown. What does a rehearsal come to mean when a vampire lives forever? Baseline is the first in a series of books that fetishise nightclubs for their inaccessibility. Deluded realities antici\u0026shy;pate the transformative sensuality of penetration. In his second novel, artist Ivan Cheng maintains his fixation on structures for audiences between public and private.\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\u003eThis novel was written for a solo exhibition in a small space in Vienna, to accompany a cookie box that Ivan Cheng\u0026nbsp;commissioned. He\u0026nbsp;was writing prose increasingly during the covid period of reduced performances to continue staying active in writing, and try to keep playing with structure and form.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ivancheng.com/projects/confidences-baseline\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":34315,"title":"Confidences / Majority","dimensions":"11 x 18 cm, 208 p., language : English, publisher : After 8 Books, ISBN : 978-2-492650-05-5","date_begin":"2022-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2031/970","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"confidences-majority","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/089/988/medium_500/IC-Majority-Cover-1_copy.jpg?1685092140","cached_actor_names":"Ivan Cheng","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/089/988/large/IC-Majority-Cover-1_copy.jpg?1685092140","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilgamesh “Gil” Gupta is a theatre maker and self-defined “avant-gardist.” As a young vampire, Gil’s alienation from time, body, and identity only increases with the murder of his sire, Patrice. Seasons pass in spite of this, and Gil endeavours to circumvent inter-species edicts to foster a meaningful audience. Recognition becomes a vocation.\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eConfidences / Majority\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;is a novel that presents entertainment as critical gospel. Seething a trail of cultural debris,\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eMajority\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;is the second instalment in Ivan Cheng’s\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eConfidences\u003c/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;series, which deploys a version of the vampire and performance as sites for transformation and maintenance.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.after8books.com/confidences-/-majority.html\"\u003eNovel's website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":36555,"title":"Confidences / Oracle","dimensions":"19 x 15 cm, 183 p. language: English, publisher: OCT0, Marseille, ISBN: 978-2-9593478-0-1","date_begin":"2024-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collectie M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"confidences-oracle","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/093/751/medium_500/ConfidencesOracle_Cheng.jpg?1737105503","cached_actor_names":"Ivan Cheng","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/093/751/large/ConfidencesOracle_Cheng.jpg?1737105503","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":36789,"title":"Confidences / Production","dimensions":"347 p., 18 x 13 cm, language: English, publisher: After 8 Book, ISBN: 978-2-492650-13-0","date_begin":"2024-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collectie M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"confidences-production","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/094/413/medium_500/ConfidencesProduction_Cheng.jpg?1748610534","cached_actor_names":"Ivan Cheng","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/094/413/large/ConfidencesProduction_Cheng.jpg?1748610534","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]