{"id":93,"date":"2007-08-03T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greyisgood.eu\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-10-07T18:52:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T16:52:40","slug":"letters-2004-2006-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/93","title":{"rendered":"Letters 2004-2006: book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rampub.com\/images\/title.gif\" alt=\"ram books\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A review from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampub.com\/art\/978-1-870699-98-3\">RAM Publications<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"i\/x.gif\"\/>, N.American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampub.com\/art\/978-1-870699-98-3\">distributors<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"i\/x.gif\"\/> for my book: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Martin John Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brilliant new book is a stroll down Albert Camus Lane for this artist whose work has consistently explored the clash between the fact of human existence and governments with digital databases which could delete anyone with a single keystroke. Any member of modern society can identify with Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s letters to government authorities, in which he essentially \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and subversively \u00e2\u20ac\u201c challenges their right to define if he exists according to their records. Each letter poses a deceptively simple question or even inane rhetorical statement and the collected responses (from eminences ranging from the secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury to the offices of President Mubarak of Egypt) reveal the absurdity of bureaucracy and the egos of those that claim power. A wonderful exploration from the London-based artist; one of his best-known projects transmits the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am Still Alive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to available cell phones, laptops and PDAs in a given area, a poignant plea for recognition from cyberspace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review from RAM Publications, N.American distributors for my book: Martin John Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brilliant new book is a stroll down Albert Camus Lane for this artist whose work has consistently explored the clash between the fact of human existence and governments with digital databases which could delete anyone with a single keystroke. Any member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-output","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}