Dear friends,

I'd like to let you know about some upcoming projects. I hope we cross paths at either of them:

Illusion Reading Room
Project for 11th Havana Biennial
Open Score Project. Centro Hispanoamericano de la Cultura

From May 11 to June 11, 2012
Opening May 11 at 4.30 pm
http://www.bienalhabana.cult.cu

"For over 405 years, from July 25th, 1518 until March 3rd, 1924, the Holy Qur'an was perpetually recited, day and night, in the Department of Mohammed's Cloak in the Topkapi Palace, in Istanbul."

Illusion Reading Room is a participative installation: there will be a pile of 500 copies of my novel Illusion and two armchairs. In one of them, a permanent reader is reading out loud from my novel. Public are welcome to take one copy of the novel with them for free. It is only asked to do one thing in exchange: to sit down in the vacant armchair and take it over from the reader, by reading out loud a few pages for the rest of the audience. In this way, public become part of the installation as temporary performers.

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Illusion - Disillusion
Solo exhibition in Artium, museum of contemporary art of Vitoria (Spain). Within the Praxis program.
23rd April-24th June
Public conversation with curator Blanca de la Torre + Illusion Buzzword Bingo in the evening of 25th April
www.artium.org

A compilation of works that connect both Illusion (art project in the form of a novel) and Disillusion (art project in the form of a board game) will be displayed. Due to their participative nature, the exhibition space will be transformed in a sort of "game room". All pieces are interrelated and all require an active role from the spectator to be activated. Some are for one player, some are to be played with an opponent. The idea is that the spectator acquires an active role in the process of reception of the work, not only by playing/executing each piece separately, but also when reconstructing the network of relations that lead from one work to the next one. They will be special evenings for collective games: Illusion Buzzword Bingo and QUIZ.

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And stay tuned for the public presentation of The Book Lovers project, in M HKA (Antwerp), after the summer.
Long-term project on artist novels (2012-2013), in collaboration with curator and writer Joanna Zielinska
The project The Book Lovers is divided in three parts, an online database and collection of artist novels – an exhibition – and a symposium with performances, talks, interviews, public reading of artist novels...
www.muhka.be

Currently we are working on the first part: We are gathering a collection of artist novels and creating a parallel online database that will complement the background information of each item, from the literary and the artistic perspectives. Both collection and database are being hosted by M HKA (contemporary art museum, Antwerp, Belgium). There will be a public presentation in the museum later on this year. The collection of artist novels includes, among others: Carl Andre, Keren Cytter, Salvador Dalí, Liam Gillick, Goldin+Senneby, Pablo Helguera, Joseph Kosuth, Jana Leo, Mai-Thu Perret, Tom McCarthy, Richard Prince, Alexandre Singh, Andy Warhol... to a total of around 90 titles.

Best wishes,
David

(TYI : David Maroto is currently pursuing his Masters degree at the DAI.)

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