Printed Matter

Handbook of the Spontaneous Other
Aikaterini Gegisian

Composed of a series of 59 collages, in Handbook of the Spontaneous Other Aikaterini Gegisian playfully recontextualises images from popular culture that Gegisian has sourced – from pornographic magazines, tourist catalogues and National Geographic spreads – in order to subvert the way that the body, nature and pleasure have been represented in Western capitalist fantasies.

Publication Handbook of the Spontaneous Other
Artists Aikaterini Gegisian
Publisher MACK
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Divided into nine chapters that follow a metaphysical narrative of colour and sensation, the book ultimately seeks to locate a ‘spontaneous other’; a notion of the self and of pleasure that exist beyond the confines of popular culture and its dominant modes of representation.

Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

In this book, Aikaterini Gegisian brings together a diverse range of found photographic material produced in Western Europe and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s.

Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Aikaterini Gegisian. Image from Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (2020) by Aikaterini Gegisian published by MACK

Embossed linen hardback, 17 x 24 cm
published March 2020

ISBN 978-1-912339-69-3
€35 £30 $40

MACK on Instagram

 

Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (2020) by Aikaterini Gegisian published by MACK
Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (2020) by Aikaterini Gegisian published by MACK

You may also like

Printed Matter

Mia Oberländer — Anna

Printed Matter

Christina Werner — Thank you. I prefer lions.

Printed Matter

Sarah Michel — Echos from the Dephts (A true fiction)

Printed Matter

Aleksei Kazantsev — Relaxing Chamber