In the autumn of 2017, Tyler Coburn and Adam Gibbons began a conversation about Ergonomic Futures, Coburn's furniture for humans to come. What unfolded is a chimera: a hybrid, at once mythic and mundane, of a parasite, an institution, a brisk back-and -forth, a protracted exchange, a monster, a factory, two monologues, many emails—a text assembled amid births and passings, across countries and time zones, and in the minutes claimed between jobs.
“ ” (Quotation Marks) is a book series edited by
Adam Gibbons and
Eva Wilson that looks at the forms and roles of
publishing as and within artists' practices. “ ” hosts conversations with artists who work at the intersection of publishing and exhibition-making: through circulation, dissemination, spamming, dispersion, print, data, language, infection, fashion, networks, disturbance, myth, parasiting, and infiltration.
Tyler Coburn (born 1983) is an artist and writer based in New York.
See also
Solitary (edited by Tyler Coburn).
