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- In Ready Unmade, a piece commissioned by the frieze art fair, Kurant explores the thin line between fiction and reality, purposelessness and function: the artist presents a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language.
Catalogue documenting recent work by Polish artist and curator Agniezka Kurant, published on the occasion of Kurant's presentation at Frieze Projects 2008.
In Ready Unmade, a piece commissioned by the frieze art fair, Kurant further explores the thin line between fiction and reality, purposelessness and function: the artist presents a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language. Both a reflection on nature behaving unnaturally and a caricature of the zoo-like atmosphere of the art fair and the self-reflexive communication of the art world. Referring to two similar but unrealized projects by other artists, Kurant also questions the notions of copyright and the marketplace.
Designed by Kasia Korczak & Boy Vereecken, the book includes sections printed with photochromic ink, a pop-up, and a poster cut into separate pages.