01.01.CM: Collection of the Museum of Ordure.
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Antipyrine 2014 28x18 cm. 272 pp. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's boards with dust-jacket.
01.01.CM was published as part of the exhibition: Systemics#3: Against the idea of growth, towards poetry (or, how to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later), in Kunsthal Aarhus (16jan.-30mar.). The Communist Manifesto was first printed as a 24 page pamphlet in February 1848, in London. Since that time, it has been reproduced in countless contexts, making it not only one of the most widely read texts ever, both one that continues to be disputed for the efficacy of its call to action. 01.01.CM presents over 100 covers of The Communist Manifesto, compiled by the Museum of Ordure from its collection. The book is turned inside out to draw attention to its material form and historical conditions: the covers have fascinating stories to tell of hopes and anticipated futures - for instance, in their use of particular imagery and in the signs of wear through human use – and draw attention to the excesses of capitalist production. This notion of excess is fundamental to the overall project of the Museum of Ordure in its attention to the management of human waste and identification of ordure. What value do readers place upon the Manifesto in a situation where radical politics appears to have been reduced to commodity form, nostalgia or mere curiosity? Förlagsnytt exemplar.
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