Art

No Telos!

Drawings made for the publication No Telos!, 2018, a collaborative artistic research project for exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing and open-ended activity within creative practice and during uncertain times.

The project considers different tactics for resisting the increasingly outcome-motivated or achievement-oriented tendencies of contemporary culture, by shifting emphasis from a mode of telos or goal-driven productivity towards experimental forms of process-led exploration, subversive playfulness and wilful irresolution. No Telos! was conceived as a counter-measure to the ubiquitous demands to do more and more — faster and faster.

This artist’s book comprises a series of ‘scores’ drawing on exercises and practices first developed and tested in Venice. The city is approached as a live laboratory for artistic research. 

This highly tactile edition is printed with multiple special features including a screen printed cover, multiple speciality papers, french folds, Risograph printed sections and removable inserts. 

Publication info:

No Telos!
130 Pages, 70 Images
Softback, 210 x 273mm
Published by Beam Editions, 2019
ISBN 978-1-9164200-8-3
Limited Edition 200

Launched at the Research Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2019