This book details Mark Aerial Waller’s thought processes and the potential for political engagement through his filmmaking, situations and material works.
The Wayward Canon (El Canon Rebelde) began in 2019 as a catalogue for the artist’s retrospective exhibition at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Gran Canaria, Spain. With the onset of Coronavirus, the publication uncoupled from its format to become a set of critical texts and possibilities for interaction. The back pages can be cut up to make a flip-book, and a musical score is included to re-enact the sense of one of Waller’s legendary Wayward Canon events.
Contributors:
Curator and writer Mike Sperlinger (LUX / Oslo National Academy of the Arts) considers who is responsible for making, preserving and policing the frameworks for artworks – who is it, if not ourselves?
Members of the former art collective and space France Fiction, Lorenzo Cirrincione and Marie Bonnet, walk with Jennifer Teets across Paris against a background of situationism; a mesh of supernatural, civic and economic upheaval.
An interview between Gemma Medina Estupiñan (independent curator/ Van Abbe Museum) and Waller details the artist’s decision-making process between material, technique and political context.
Includes an introduction by CAAM Director, Orlando Britto Jinorio.
