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
Series: Fine Companions No.2, icw Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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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.
[read more] Their conversations unfold across systems of value, labor, authorship, and spectatorship, casting light on the backstage economies of the art world. 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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