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      Martin John Callanan

      Letters 2004–2006: Confirmation That You still Exist; I Respect Your Authority; When Will It End; One London

      48 pages | Full colour | 240 x 175 mm, Soft cover | 2007 | Edition of 1,000 copies
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Callanan's work explores apparatuses of power. Gathered here are the responses to his mass letter writing. Each letter poses a deceptively simple question or even inane rhetorical statement and the collected responses reveal the absurdity of bureaucracy and the egos of those that claim power.

Collected here are a selection of responses to a series of letters mailed between 2004–06, ranging from the bemused response of the Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury to the question "When will it end?" to appreciative letters from the offices of President Mubarak of Egypt in response to the declaration "I respect your authority".


Callananは権力構造を探究する作品を制作している。ここに集められたのは、彼が送った膨大な手紙に対する返答である。それぞれの手紙は一 見簡単な質問、もしくは滑稽にもみえる叙述で、集められた返答は官僚社会のばからしさと、官僚が権力を主張するさいのエゴを明白にしている。
この集められた返答は2004年から2006年までの間になされた一連の手紙からセレクトされたもの。
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