Please come along to West Space to celebrate the launch of Justin Clemens' new book Minimal Domination.
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 2011
6:30 FOR 7PM LAUNCH
Minimal Domination collects over a decade’s writing on contemporary art. The title is drawn from contemporary mathematics: a minimally dominating set is the smallest set of points that neighbour all other points of a graph. A minimally dominating set is therefore a multiple and a structure which has privileged access to what it’s not. This is the secret of contemporary art, which creates discrete selections from which we can survey the whole.
Justin Clemens has written extensively on contemporary Australian art. Former art critic for The Monthly, he currently teaches at the University of Melbourne.
Minimal Domination is designed by Brad Haylock and published by Surpllus. Brad Haylock is an artist, a designer (mostly of books), and a lecturer in design at Monash University. Surpllus is an independent publisher of printed matter pertaining to critical and speculative practices, including (but not limited to) artists’ books and zines, exhibition catalogues, and critical writing and theory.
Minimal Domination will be launched by Phip Murray, director of West Space, board member of un Projects, and frequent writer about art.
Minimal Domination
ISBN 978-0-9807536-8-4
RRP: AUD25
Special launch price(!): AUD20
