kurimanzutto

05-28-07

Alias, a publishing Project by Damian Ortega
Presentation:
May 28, 2007 20:00
Casa del Lago, Bosque de Chapultepec

Alias, the publishing project by Damian Ortega will be launched on Monday 28 of May (20:00) at Casa del Lago, Bosque de Chapultepec. Alias will publish texts that considers valuable references in contemporary art, in a different way though: by copying the original or adapting itself to it. One of the meanings of the word ‘alias’ –not longer used- is actually ‘in a different way’. Alias proposes another way to publish by detaching the original from its place and re-contextualizing it. Alias is the twin book, the nickname book.

The first title of the collection Conversando con Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne (Dialogs with Marcel Duchamp) will be presented during this event. Twelve hands had translated the work: Laureana Toledo, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Richard Moszka, Maria Gutierrez and Damian Ortega. The future titles will be announced on this date as well. Among the authors of the twelve issues that compose the project are Jimmie Durham, John Cage, and Bruce Nauman.

This initiative pretends to enhance the virtues of the nickname reckoning that the alias can be more certain and accurate than the given name. At the same time it holds a stronger relation with the physical appearance, the personality, and the trade of the one ‘re-named’. Further more than a second name the alias is the other name, that one granted by friends, which acquires its own life through the time, and nurtures a different identity than the official one given by the legal name stated on the birth certificate.

The Act of Recognition and Baptism of this publishing house will be celebrated in the presence of a public notary who will

certify the event. A document notifying to the audience the details that motivate a publishing house embedded with such special features will be read too.

Recently on May 19, 2007, Damian Ortega inaugurated a public sculpture Transportable Obelisk, sponsored by the Public Art Fund and located at the Doris C Freedman Square in Central Park, New York. He will open a solo show next July at White Cube in London, and another next September at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. The artist has been nominated by the German Government for the Preis Der Nationalgalerie Fur Junge Kunst, a prize addressed for contemporary artists.


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