“In this play — a perpetual stew — the so-called “accessories” and “props” of artists take center stage. No longer silent or subordinate, these objects speak, question, and disrupt, revealing the often-invisible infrastructures that shape artistic production.
Their conversations unfold across systems of value, labor, authorship, and spectatorship, casting light on the backstage economies of the art world. What was once peripheral becomes protagonist, as the tools of making articulate their own agency and implication in broader cultural, political, and institutional logics:
MICROPHONE Ok, but we are NOT going to produce anything, like I am strictly against adding any more objects …
STAPLER Sure, we agreed on that, no product.
PHONE …Yes, and we are for the LARGE shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal …”
A play “in as many acts as you like” in which objects are the main characters, with reproduced handwritten in red, with an afterword about the Fine Companions series by John Hartle.
Soft cover, 14 x 9,5 cm, 384 pages, ed/400, No.2 in the series Fine Companions, Vienna 2025
ISBN: 978-3-903353-21-3
