Saffi Adler: Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
Perpetual Stew

Softcover, perfect binding, 9.5 × 14 cm, 384 pages
Edition: 400, design: Astrid Seme, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-903353-21-3

€16

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.
[read more] 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 …
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