Chronotopic Traverses
Chronotopic Traverses
Printed on the occasion of Haegue Yang’s solo exhibition of the same title at La Panacée – MoCo in Montpellier, Chronotopic Traverses not only documents the exhibition, but also contains the full length of a text-based work by Yang, A Chronology of Conflated Dispersion – Duras and Yun (2018), in which Yang literally merged subjectively summarized biographical facts of two figures, namely the French writer Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) and the Korean composer Isang Yun (1917–1995). Though the artistic biographies are without historical or personal connections, both run dramatically alongside the sequences of colonialism, the Cold War, as well as various social ruptures and political conflicts. This publication also includes a brief index of Yang’s wallpapers and mural-like pieces. Chronotopic Traverses is published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite (“good day, good after, good night” in Portuguese, conveying the idea that books can become part of everyday life, regardless of the time of day). The press was founded by Manual Raeder and Manuel Goller in 2011 and publishes artist books that are conceived as an integral part of an artwork, or as the artwork itself, often playing with the format of the book.