Novel
Issue Three
Edited ~ Alun Rowlands &
Matt Williams
Designed ~ James Langdon
Newspaper Publication
pp. 82
ISBN 978-1-906424-10-7


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Paul Sietsema Painter's Mussel (2010)


DAS INSTITUT "Bcc: Corp Ab"
DAS INSTITUT for NOVEL (2010)


Mark Borthwick If by String (2009)

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Paul Sietsema Painter's Mussel (2010)
Michael Dean Physique (2010)
Mark Titchner Do it (2010)
Nick Mauss Everything that Hesitates (2010)
Chris Krauss excerpt one from the forthcoming novel
Summer of Hate (2010)
Charles Atlas Are you tired of paying too much for your carpets (2009)
Nick Relph A List of Incorrect Things (2010)
DavidMaljkovic (2010)
Alex Hubbard Textasy 1-4 (2010)
Laure Prouvost (2010)
Amir Mogharabi Matériel Perdu (2010)
Mark Titchner Self Help (2010)
Saskia Olde Wolbers Pareidolia (2010)
Mark Borthwick If Desire (2010)
Lothar Hempel Swally Tailio Filiali; Novela Bobby Duo (2010)
Mark Borthwick If by String (2009)
Chris Krauss excerpt two from Summer of Hate (2010)
Laure Prouvost The person behind you would like to talk to you (2010)
DAS INSTITUT "Bcc: Corp Ab" DAS INSTITUT for NOVEL (2010)
Oscar Tuazon extract from Last Try (2009)
Erika Vogt Cylinders with Figures (2009)
Simon Thompson Where Does Sister Sublet? (2010)
Laure Prouvost Questions will be asked (2010)

Gareth James, The Fourth of Three Things, Two (2010)





Publication launch, exhibition and screenings

NOVEL § 3 is published on the occasion of the exhibition NOVEL at dépendance, Brussels.

Exhibiting artists include:
NICK MAUSS, NICHOLAS BYRNE, HENRI CHOPIN, OSCAR TUAZON, HENRIK OLESEN, GARETH JAMES, MICHAELA EICHWALD, MERLIN CARPENTER, JOSEF STRAU, MICHAEL KREBBER, R.H.QUAYTMAN, SIMON THOMPSON, BERNADETTE CORPORATION, KIRSTEN PIEROTH, CHRISTIAN FLAMM CAMP DAVID, SERGEJ JENSEN

with screening of ED ATKINS 'Press my eyelids closed'.

dépendance, varkensmarkt 4 rue du marche aux porcs, Brussel 1000 www.dependance.be


Film Screenings l'Archiduc, Antoine Dansaert 6 1000 Brussels
La Chaussette presents...

ED ATKINS
Death Mask 2: The Scent (2010) 8'19
LAURE PROUVOST
OWT (2007)
2'
HANNAH SAWTELL
You'll Never Walk Alone (2007)
6'30

Oscar Tuazon extract from Last Try (2009)





We would like to thank all of the artists for participating and the following galleries for their kind support; DEPENDANCE, BRUSSELS; CABINET GALLERY, LONDON; MOT INTERNATIONAL, LONDON: GAVIN BROWN, NEW YORK; MAUREEN PALEY, LONDON; 303 GALLERY, NEW YORK; HERALD STREET, LONDON; ELIZABETH DEE, NEW YORK; MACCARONE, NEW YORK; REGEN PROJECTS, LOS ANGLELES; MODERN ART, LONDON; BALICE HERTLING, PARIS; METRO PICTURES, NEW YORK; JONATHAN VINER, FORTESCU AVENUE, LONDON; OVERDUIN & KITE, LOS ANGELESAND VILMA GOLD, LONDON

Novel draws together artists writing, texts and poetry that oscillate between modes of fiction and criticism. A cacophony of voices, that is the primary condition of writing, seek to break the habitual methods of representation and productions of subjectivity. Disconnected from any unitary theme these texts coalesce around writing as a core material of a number of artists exploring language and fiction. This fiction acts as a speculative force, no longer defined by what is said, even less by what makes it a signifying thing, but perhaps as a mode that exists parallel to the visual. Here, art writing is an apparatus for knowledge capture, informed by theory, film, politics and storytelling; writing as parallel practice, different, tangential; writing as political fiction; writing as another adventure on the ‘skin drive', renegotiating unfulfilled beginnings or incomplete projects – that might offer points of departure. Amidst the insinuated narratives and materialised visions there is a concern for writing and the impossibility of fiction which is at stake. Novel asks us to think of writing as something distinct from information, as at least one realm of cultural production that is exempt from the encompassing obligation to communicate.


NOVEL at dépendance, Brussels.

Novel is distributed through events, readings and screenings which are staged at venues that become the loci for reading, furnished with artworks and related films that augment the fictioning of a scenario. This scenario will be the summation of multiple experiences and anxieties that demands new forms of critical fiction. These new strategies require an active protagonist, a polymath who can amalgamate them with fluency. Fiction is not made up, it is based on everything we can learn or use; a zone in which all sources of knowledge are valid.