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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> 9 Weeks the first volume in this series of conversations ‘map[ped] a journey through an artistic landscape at a particular moment in time’. This edition which can accurately be called ‘several more than 9 weeks’ functions to reflect rather than map. The following texts snapshot the elasticity of artists’ perspectives and practices in a peculiar time. These 9 More Weeks pass over an era of extreme public-mindedness. Over the construction of this text South Africa gained a new president and Zimbabwe lost a dictator – the enthusiasm of both nations cooling into dread; Vicki Momberg became the first person sentenced to prison for a public display of racism; powerful and venerated men were ousted from their positions in the floodgate of reports on sexual abuses; the term ‘Day Zero’ loomed large in the public imagination fronting the Time magazine website and inspiring panicked purchases of buckets then disappearing into obscurity; citizens were mobilised to contribute to an informal (LL)