Author: Elena Peytchinska, Thomas BallhausenIn this volume, artist Elena Peytchinska and poet Thomas Ballhausen are continuing their linguistic/artistic exploration of space and language, and the intertwining of drawing and literature. This latest work interrogates the relationship between the science of fiction and the fiction of science, presenting a relational, practice-oriented model of 'operative fiction', which encounters the 'unthinkable' other and integrates it as a necessary part of thought and creative processes.While Peytchinska Ballhausen's previous works FAUNA (2018) and FLORA (2020) focused on strategies of rapprochement between the arts and the sciences based on linguistic-artistic premises, their latest work interrogates the relationship between the science of fiction and the fiction of science. Fiction Fiction presents a relational, practice-oriented model of operative fiction, which not only encounters the supposedly unthinkable other but integrates it as an active and necessary part of thought and creative processes. Includes artistic reflections on contemporary philosophy and its sociocritical contexts. With contributions by Lucia D’Errico, Sabina Holzer, Elisabeth Schäfer, and Ferdinand Schmatz. ISBN 9783111251363. Edition Angewandte. hb. 320 pages. 100 colour ills. 19.5 x 12.5 cm.available to order
