e-flux Book Launch
16 March 2007
The Best Surprise
Is No Surprise
Friday 16 March
6.30 – 8.30pm
The Best Surprise Is No Surprise e-flux, other participants,
JRP | Ringier: Zurich 2006
full colour, 316 pages
In recent years, electronic communications have transformed the public discourse on contemporary art. The Best Surprise Is No Surprise covers a seven year period beginning in 1999 and chronicles communiqués for exhibitions, publications, events and symposia chosen from the archive of electronic announcements originally distributed by e-flux.
Selected by the e-flux readers and by some of the most active international curators, artists, critics and art historians of our time, including: Zdenka Badovinac, Ariane Beyn, Mircea Cantor, Binna Choi, Elena Filipovic, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Jens Hoffmann, Eungie Joo, Sam Keller, Francesco Manacorda, Viktor Misiano, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jessica Morgan, Molly Nesbit, Ernesto Neto, Natasa Petresin, Brian Sholis, Nancy Spector, Christine Tohme, Barbara Vanderlinden, Octavio Zaya, Tirdad Zolghadr.
The book also contains an essay by Daniel Birnbaum and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
