A*Desk compilation page with links to all five installments of the Retraction project. [click to enlarge]
The completed Retraction project, conceived initially almost nine months ago, has now been published in all five installments, quintuplets. Thanks go to Montse Badia (A*Desk, editor-in-chief) for the invitation to guest-edit the November issue and for her hard work in implementing this rather large and sometimes intricate project during challenging times. I’m thrilled that the vast majority of the artists and writers I sought out were interested in the idea and came through with works that are exciting and worthwhile in their own right and that also gave me as a terrific provocation for continuing to think through the idea of «retraction».
List of Contributors:
Dora Garcia
Werner Thöni
Alexandre Madureira
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Gerard Freixes
Eugenio Tisselli
Cinthia Bodenhorst + Sara Coleman
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Elena Kuroda
Agnès Thöni
Nuno Carvalho
Andreas Kaufmann
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Marc Anglès
Estampa
Montse Carreño + Raquel Muñoz
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Mireia c. Saladrigues
Carlos Miguel Sánchez
Vitor Magalhães
Eva Sòria
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Peter Freund
Next steps (2021) will be to get the ok from the contributors to create an interactive pdf of the five installments in a modified design (first in English, later in Spanish and Catalan) and consider some additional manifestations of the project sprung from the retractive impulse.