Dodge and/or Burn
2024
Publisher:
Mousse Publishing
Publishing editor: 
Ilaria Bombelli
Graphic design: 
Anna Azzali
Texts: 
Charlotta Björklind
Asier Mendizabal
Haytham el-Wardany
104 pages
Softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm
ISBN 9788867496143
€ 25 / $ 30

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition: Lisa Tan, Dodge and/or Burn curated by Therese Kellner at Accelerator, Stockholm, Sweden, September 16, 2023 – February 11, 2024


Dodge and/or Burn is conceived as a continuation of the artist’s eponymous solo exhibition at Accelerator gallery, Stockholm. Inspired by a drawing made by the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks representing the physiological organization of migraines, Tan created a system of “open walls” for viewers to navigate. Her attention to “the intersection between the nervous system and interior life as a way of examining how art operates, uncertainty, and the formation of the self” is deepened in the publication thanks to the essays of three authors whose work has affected Tan’s thinking.

Psychoanalyst Charlotta Björklind and artist Asier Mendizabal analyze the overlapping of inner and outer life, the misalignment of subjective experience from representations of it, and negotiations between mind and brain, while the narration of writer Haytham el-Wardany meditates on the breath between words.

Throughout the book, at the top of the pages, runs a transcription of the voice-over monologue from Tan’s video Dodge and Burn (2021–23).