Cose Journal #2
€ 35,00 (incl. VAT)
In stock
- Category: Magazine
- Topic: Art, Culture
- Publisher: Cose
- Country: Italy
- Language: English
- Release: 2024
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Perfect
- Size: 23 x 30 cm
- Pages: 192
5 different covers. Will be chosen randomly.
Cose Journal is a new independent publication striving to spark reflection on everyday objects and their different uses through a variety of vehicles for creative expression.
COSE Journal II focuses on the desk, the surface on which human training and research take place. It is a personal, intimate space of solitude and study that reflects perfectly our habits, needs, and peculiarities. The analysis will focus on the space of the desk in its entirety but also on all the objects that inhabit it; pens, pencils, paper, computers, chargers, books, calculators, scotch tape, stapler, erasers, post-its, etc.
Modern objects find themselves thrown into a large, dangerously indistinct mass, linked to the subject by apparently feeble and impersonal relationships. We can react to the desemantisation of the object by continuing to exercise our capacity for affection and prioritisation. In a society driven by overconsumption and compulsive buying, in an era where it is impossible not to notice the aftermath of our purchases, paying attention to what we buy and how we buy it has become an ethical and political statement. The only way to reassess our understanding of freedom is to cultivate a new type of bond with the things around us, whether human or non-human.
Cose Journal is edited by Gilda Bruno, an Italian-born arts and culture writer, editor and photographer currently based in London.
