Ben Kinmont
Trajectory
On the occasion of 'Publishing & Performing Relationships. Caveat at Bâtard Festival', Ben Kinmont and Caveat republished three of his existing publications. The compilation is titled Promises and Precarity: Steps in an Alternative Artistic Practice, and can be downloaded here: https://cloud.caveat.be/s/Pn94bdMybFd5qR6/download
Biography
Ben Kinmont (born 1963 in Burlington, Vermont) is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller living in Sebastopol, California. His work is concerned with the value structures surrounding an art practice and what happens when that practice is displaced into a non-art space.
http://www.benkinmont.com
http://antinomianpress.org
http://www.kinmont.com
Activities
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Publishing & Performing Relationships. Caveat at Bâtard Festival Each day during the festival, an artist will present a proposal as a sharing ground for thoughts, discussions, and reflections on authorship, value, economy, distribution, participation...
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Caveat at LODGERS Caveat is hosted by LODGERS, a collaboration between AIR Antwerpen and M HKA. LODGERS functions as Caveat’s first platform for public programmes, workshops, a display of artworks, legal material, and film screenings: a framework for research and artistic production as well as a public stage to negotiate possible futures of the artist contract.
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Ben Kinmont, 'Promises and Precarity: Steps in an Alternative Artistic Practice', artist talk and Q&A Artist talk by Ben Kinmont with Q&A, following a workshop with the presentation of a reprint of publications in the context of 'Publishing & Performing Relationships. Caveat at Bâtard Festival'. 30 October - 3 November 2018
Bibliography
- Kinmont, Ben., Promises and Precarity: Steps in an Alternative Artistic Practice, Jubilee, 2018. Compiled republication of:
- Kinmont, Ben., The Materialization of Life into alternative economies, exh. cat. Printed Matter NYC, SoHo Services, 1996.
- Kinmont, Ben., Promised relations: or, thoughts concerning a few artists' contracts, Antinomian Press, 1996.
- Kinmont, Ben., Project Series: Archive Contracts, Antinomian Press, 2005.
- https://cloud.caveat.be/s/Pn94bdMybFd5qR6/download
Notes
- Report of Ben Kinmont's presentation at Bâtard Festival
- Report of Ben Kinmont's book presentation & workshop, 'Promises and Precarity: Steps in an Alternative Artistic Practice'
- franck leibovici, '(some forms of life) – an ecology of artistic practices', book presentation, artist talk and Q & A
Activities (participant)
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franck leibovici, '(some forms of life) – an ecology of artistic practices', book presentation, artist talk and Q & A Dialogue-format artist talk with franck leibovici around his publication Forms of life (Questions théoriques, 2012) in the context of 'Publishing & Performing Relationships. Caveat at Bâtard Festival'. 30 October - 3 November 2018