The Death of the Artist

The seventh publication in Cabinet�s 24-Hour Book series, in which distinguished authors and artists are incarcerated in the Cabinet gallery space to complete a project from start to finish within 24 hours, The Death of the Artist breaks from prior volumes to stage an experiment involving six different contributors working simultaneously on a single book. Gathered at Cabinet�s Berlin event space, the six artists and writers were each asked to consider their own finitude, figurative or literal.The volume includes Sam Durant�s meditation on the death of an artwork as a political idea; Tom McCarthy�s forensic postulations about death and geometry; Eva Stenram�s modified found photographs that suggest violence-to-come; Omer Fast�s script in which a woman on an Austrian ski slope becomes the reluctant audience for a retelling of a Yiddish folk tale; Susan Ploetz�s outline for a Live Action Role Play (LARP) in which players can learn the art of dying; and Till Gathmann�s aleatory game whose outcome can invoke death.