Becoming Tarden

by Jill Magid ; redacted by the Dutch secret service

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Editor(s)

Jill Magid, AIVD

Uitgever, jaar

New York : in house, 2010 (2009)

Omvang

184 p., 21 cm.

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In 2005, Jill Magid was commissioned by the Dutch secret service (AIVD) to create a work that would "reveal the human face" of the organization. During the next three years she met with 18 agents who volunteered to be interviewed, but remained anonymous even to her. The project resulted in a variety of forms, among them te exhibition 'Article 12' at Stroom Den Haag (April 20 to June 15, 2008) and her non-fiction novel, 'Becoming Tarden'. Forty percent of the manuscript was censored by the AIVD in 2008. After legal negotiations with the organization, Magid agreed to let it seize the uncensored body of the book after being exposed—under glass and out of reach—from her solo exhibition 'Authority to Remove' at the Tate Modern in London, 2009-10. The redacted paperback edition of Becoming Tarden was published later that year and first shown at The New Museum in the exhibition 'Free'.

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Persoon als onderwerp

Jill Magid

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 5 - 4: Kunstenaars