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*Feil forlag is pleased to announce the official Norwegian launch of the book Modeling Agency by Janus Høm (DK) and Martyn Reynolds (NZ). The book was published in Vienna and Copenhagen this autumn and will now be available in Norway.

The launch and party will be at Feil Forlags temporary headquarters at the W17 residency studio 1 at Kunstnernes Hus (Entrance at the back of the building) Thursday November 10th at 7 PM.

At the launch there will be a talk by Janus Høm and Martyn Reynolds.*

Everybody today who engages with culture via Facebook, fashion etc., filters it through their own experiences to model a subjective expression of their relationship to society. This publication considers these common strategies by which cultural consumers and artists use popular culture today. As an artistic strategy these appropriation processes are familiar to artistic production. At the same time curatorial production has increasingly moved towards the instrumentalising of artwork beyond a simple art historical narrative. Modeling Agency discusses the fusion of these two parallel conventions in artistic and curatorial production, which are accepted within the frames of their own discourses, but not each other’s.

Modeling Agency features:

Geir Haraldseth: on messed-up curatorial approaches

Mikkel Carl: on masturbation and appropriating appropriation

Toke Lykkeberg: If Hollywood didn’t exist artists would have to invent it

Maria Kjær Themsen: on the absurd heroism of art-making

Halvor Rønning, Janus Høm and Martyn Reynolds discussing modeling agency