The Book of Conversations

This is a performance object. This object pretends to be a book. This book has the voices of the [A]uthor and sixteen artists from different corners in the world. Between April and November 2020, Fatih Gençkal conducted an interview experiment by starting 16 e-mail conversations with fellow artists from different corners in the world about their individual processes during the pandemic outbreak, about their works and future perspectives. Intending to chronicle the various states, perspectives and processes that we go through in different locations around the world, the “Conversations” project took place in the form of exchanged letters -in this case emails- over a period of weeks, sometimes months. This Book is the outcome of a performance. In reference to the process of publishing a book, this experiment takes its source material from these conversations and reflects the relationship among three main elements of a book: The author, the editor, and the designer. The author of this book is having new conversations with his book, with the words guided by the editor, on the white space left by the designer.

212 photographs Essay by London-based artist, critic and art historian Lucy Soutter Appendix featuring crucial texts and speeches about Brexit and EU-UK relations

The Book of Conversations
Fatih Gençkal

ISBN 9786057152343

160 x 215 mm, 280 pp
Edition of 400

Edited by Zeynep Yavuzcezzar
Design by Umut Altıntaş
Redacted by Aybüke Bilgin Hinbest
Co-produced by A Corner in the World and Dancing on the Edge, Amsterdam