The Sickness, Book One
2017
Novella, 120 pages, digital offset print, paperback
2017
Novella, 120 pages, digital offset print, paperback


First commissioned by curator ︎︎︎Elisa Rusca for the group exhibition Into the Mu at Kunsthalle Bratislava, the work utilises the format of paperback science-fiction so as to examine ideas of information control, memory and mourning, performed identity, and the materiality of bodies. The dystopian narrative of the book involves a mysterious global pandemic in a near-future scenario. A starting point in the conception of the novella was a story about the American actor Karl Malden including his original Serbian name (Sekulovich) in many of his productions. The Sickness, Book One was designed and published by ︎︎︎TFGC Publishing (Düsseldorf). This work is in the permanent ︎︎︎‘Book Lovers’ collection at MuHKA, Antwerp. Video of an online reading of two sections at the event ︎︎︎Reading Artist’s Books (2022).
This work was produced with financial support from Carlow County Council’s Individual Arts Act Grant and Kunsthalle Bratislava.
This work was produced with financial support from Carlow County Council’s Individual Arts Act Grant and Kunsthalle Bratislava.