BRUD / Aditya Mandayam
Companion #12: The Ooze
2018

Kunstverein München e.V. and Roma Publications
German / English / Polish, softcover, 144 pages, 12 x 17 cm
ISBN 978-9492811288

16 EUR

Edited by BRUD, Chris Fitzpatrick, Aditya Mandayam, Julie Peeters, and Post Brothers
Texts by Anonymous, Chris Fitzpatrick, Kees van Gelder, Andrea Liu, Aditya Mandayam, and Michal Novotný
Designed by Julie Peeters


The Ooze is the twelfth publication in Kunstverein München's Companion series, and corresponds to The Donut of Confusion – a mid-career retrospective by BRUD (and also Season Zero of their TV show Gewgaw). BRUD is often described as a set of heuristics that gained sentience in the twenty-teens and will self-destruct sometime in the twenty-thirties. BRUD focuses their attention somewhere between the stage, the screen, and the eye, to examine the cultural, political, and technological histories of sight (primarily through linguistic and musicological modes) and to expose the hidden structural and ideological precursors to contemporary communication. This 144-page publication contains a compendium of idiosyncratic texts by Aditya Mandayam, reproduced in facsimile from various English-language zines and chapbooks. It also includes new texts about BRUD (in English, German, and Polish) by Chris Fitzpatrick, Kees van Gelder, Andrea Liu, and Michal Novotný.