Laurence Hamburger, ‘Frozen Chicken Train Wreck‘(co-published by Chopped Liver Press and Ditto Press 2013)
“I began collecting South African tabloid posters in 2008 with no other purpose than to preserve them. I thought they were funny, clever and true. Composed in a local vernacular of shebeen English, these statements are part of the texture of our urban fabric; so familiar as to almost disappear. The newspapers themselves were not keeping an archive, and however ephemeral they might seem I thought there was a relevance in them that was not being recognised; something uniquely South African.”
Since she moved to Stockholm in 2007, Algün Ringborg wanted to collect all the words that are exactly the same in Swedish and Turkish. The printed pieces take the form of a quite peculiar dictionary, consisting of the 1,270 identical words. Like Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Passport), viewers will have the chance to take copies of this dictionary. The other part of the work consists of a two-hour audio recording of all of these words read by Algün Ringborg’s partner and herself.
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes from the Hollywood film language. Starring real Hollywood stars like Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in Las Vegas.
![[no title] 1983 by Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925-2006](http://pietmondriaan.com/pm/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ian-Hamilton-Finlay-no-title-1983.jpg)
