An artist’s novel which utilises sci-fi and pulp fiction literary modes as a method to approach post-colonial critique of the European ethnographical museum. The near-future narrative of the book involves a sleep experiment in preparation for the first manned-mission to Mars, leading the participant into apparent hallucinatory explorations of a museum-like labyrinth. A key historical starting point was the work of French caver and chronobiologist Michel Siffre. The cover design and layout for Vortices is by ︎︎︎Moritz Grünke. This publication work is in the permanent ︎︎︎‘Book Lovers’ collection at MuHKA, Antwerp, and regualry takes part in touring exhibitions as part of that collection. Some copies of the novel are still available; if interested ︎︎︎contact me directly.
Vortices, 2016
Novella, 100 pages, risograph print with blue Swiss binding, paperback
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies