In the beginning there was an instruction, 
initiating a moment of play which took the form of a book;
a book that emerged out of a solo exhibition held by Nicholas Bussmann
at the TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol.
Several games and ‘plays’ were staged in the exhibition,
where repetitions of repetitions
were repeated
again
and then again.
How can the practice of the artist be translated into the form of a book?
Bussmann answered this question by incorporating his generative model
of programmatic instructions into the book itself.
The elements that typically form Bussmann’s games remain at play here.
The reiteration of world-building, as with the sung news or the series of iterative texts
in an artist book, let flash in their collision the idea of a bigger picture—
not yet drawn, uncannily complex and heterotopic,
but nonetheless a powerful stance for imaginative action.
(excerpt Epilogue by Nina Tabassomi)
 

with texts by:
Vinit Agarwal, Lindy Annis, Garnette Cadogan, Philippe Cerf, jee chan,
Yun-han Chang,Jo-hsin Chen, Freya Chou, Communist Lost Soul Capital O,
Damien Desamory, Franz Friedrich, Michael Guggenheim, Karin Harrasser, Stefan Heidenreich,
Hannah Hurtzig, Yan Jun, Alexander Klose, NaP, Natascha Sadr Haghighian,
Els Silvrants-Barclay, Nina Tabassomi and Tim Tetzner.
 

Nicholas Bussmann Instructions
120 pages
TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol & Verlag für Moderne Kunst
 

Nicholas Bussmann
The News Trilogy / Revolutions Songs in an AI Environment
LP inklusive digital download
subjam China
T–p records Austria
 

Taxispalais offers  a winter special package of the Book & LP 30€  here!
or via bandcamp where you can also listen to the music.
for China (PRC) please order via subjam’s bandcamp