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The ThiRD KiND:
RiRKRiT TiRAvANijA
The late Philip K. Dick
ideas can be spread, enforced
said that ‘Foster, you’re
and dissipated in social
Dead’ (1955) was one of
situations should provide the
his best short stories.
artist with fertile ground for
On the evidence of Rirkrit
a show.
Tiravanija’s forthcoming
show at Galleria Emi Fontana,
Dick’s story centres on an
the Thai artist agrees.
adolescent boy who lives in
fear that his father’s refusal
Inspired by a suggestion from
to buy a bomb shelter or pay
President Eisenhower that
for the improvements that are
Americans would take better
required to keep it up to the
care of their fallout shelters
standards of an ever-evolving
if they had to pay for them,
threat is making him a social
Dick’s tale is a satire on
outcast and will leave him
both consumerism and the Cold
exposed come the Apocalypse.
STARMAN: BjoRN DAhleM
War, and the way the military-
The centrepiece of
industrial complex fuses the
Tiravanija’s show will be a
The science of space often resolves into
two into a heady blend of
video of a blond tyke reading
polarised stereotypes: the intricacies
fear and desire to control
the story itself, which can be
of quantum mechanics and string theory
the masses.
watched while you relax on a
versus sci-fi fantasies. German artist
makeshift sofa crafted from
Björn Dahlem’s work balances delicately
Tiravanija is an artist most
a water drum split in half.
between these points. His deliberately
associated with ‘positive’
More characteristically, 1950s
low-fi creations, knocked together from
social interaction – famously
furniture is to be found in
cheap lengths of pine, raw neon tubes
bringing people together in
another room, where visitors
and chunks of Styrofoam are also clumsily
the gallery for a Thai curry
can play with jigsaws
elegant mappings of our exploratory
or to watch a movie in a
depicting exploding atom bombs
imaginings and theorisings about the
reconstruction of his bedroom
and perhaps ‘puzzle out’ the
universe and humanity’s place in it.
– and it’s easy to see how
nature of what they’ve
In Dahlem’s hands, the language
Dick’s account of the way
experienced. Skye Sherwin
of popular science is manipulated
to demonstrate the narrative, mythical
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA: and lyrical qualities of supposedly
FoSTer, You’re DeaD ‘objective’ science. The vocabulary this
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results in is both funny and earnest,
EMI FONTANA, MILAN,
articulated by pieces such as Milky Way
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(2007), where a bottle of milk sits
within polymorphic evolutions of neon
tubing: knowingly lame. In the Black
Hole series (1997–2006), clusters of
wooden planks, spiked like iron filings
around a magnet, are caught up with
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