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Doing Time: Essays on Using People - Softcover

Madsen, Kristian Vistrup

 
9783981910841: Doing Time: Essays on Using People
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3981910842 ISBN 13: 9783981910841
Publisher: Floating Opera Press, 2021

Synopsis

To write about someone else means both to expose and transform them. This is the dilemma of writing that Janet Malcolm describes as "morally indefensible." In Doing Time: Essays on Using People, Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael. Over several years, this spawns a series of reflections about the politics of solidarity and appropriation, but also about writing itself and what happens when life is turned into art. This book is a portrait of a friendship interpolated by great difference, and of a fearful time in which experience and identity are everything, and thinking not enough.

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About the Author

Kristian Vistrup Madsen is a Berlin-based writer. He holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Royal College of Art, and is a frequent contributor to magazines such as Artforum, Frieze, Mousse, and Kunstkritikk.

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Publisher
Floating Opera Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3981910842
ISBN 13 
9783981910841
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
168