Forty Years of Boredom 1968-2008 / Against Irony

Forty Years of Boredom – Room 3 / AGAINST IRONY (Dutch version)
(The Hague: Rondom at DCR, 2008; Rotterdam: Redefine the Enemy at Tent., 2008)

Text engraved on four fine-grained Belgian bluestone plates. In this pamphlet, the artists emphatically oppose any appeal to irony within both artistic and theoretical discourses. Irony is equated with the unwillingness to directly specify certain thematics or to straightforwardly attack certain symbolic orders, and remaining in gratuitous observations, deprived of any real standpoint: bereft of a really accountable position. This pamphlet formed the foundation of a series of principles developed together with Van Gerven Oei.

Concept and production in cooperation with Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Collection of Don’t Talk Let’s Talk, Voorburg