*IN RES: A Constructed World: The Social Contract
**Mia Jankowicz: Is it a McGuffin?
“A Constructed World remained appropriately coy in response to my questions…when the conceptual gesture is so strong, how important were the formal qualities of the work people saw?…Is it a McGuffin, or did they care what it looked and felt like? I did not get far with this sort of
**Zoe Li: Does it even matter what’s inside your space?
Riva: A friend who has seen the show said they hadn’t divulged the information even to their partner who had seen the show. Lowe: It was such a vivid image – this middle-aged couple in bed not telling each other. Even in a relationship like that they had this desire
**A Contructed World says
Relax. You can’t get this wrong.
Heman Chong and A Constructed World shot by Nora Tam
www.scmp.com/magazines/48hrs/article/1339786/arts-preview-when-artwork-contract Arts preview: When the artwork is the contract by Edmund Lee 48 Hours, SCMP, October 31, 2013 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT Spring Workshop The first condition on the legally binding confidentiality agreement that you must sign before entering “The Social Contract” is that you do not talk about the exhibition.
**Christina Li has given us homework.
Carey Young, Declared Void, 2005
Preparatory reading for The Social Contract, by A Constructed World coming up 1 November, 2013 at Spring Workshop: The Artist’s Contract / From the contract of aesthetics to the aesthetics of the contract by Daniel McClean (Mousse, Issue #25) For more from the Moderation(s) Witness Christina Li, see Moderation(s): A
