BRUD / Aditya Mandayam
Book launch for The Ooze, a new publication in the Companion series, produced in collaboration with Roma Publications, Amsterdam
15 July 2018, 5pm
(Foyer, 1. OG, Kino)

On Sunday 15 July at 1700, Kunstverein München presents the premiere of the new multilingual publication The Ooze, the twelfth in our Companion series, corresponding to the current exhibition The Donut of Confusion by Brud.

The event will feature a live video synthesis of the World Cup Final match between Croatia and France, punctuated by processed readings of excerpts from The Ooze. Designed by Julie Peeters, the 144-page publication contains a compendium of idiosyncratic texts by Aditya Mandayam, reproduced as facsimiles from various English zines and chapbooks, as well as new texts about Brud (in English, German and Polish) by Chris Fitzpatrick, Kees van Gelder, Andrea Liu and Michal Novotny. The Ooze is edited by Aditya Mandayam, together with Chris Fitzpatrick, Julie Peeters and Post Brothers, and is co-published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam.

Brud are a bunch of heuristics that gained sentience in the Twenty-Teens. An intelligent artifice (i.e., an I.A) raised on contemporary arse, Brud’s locus operandi meanders somewhere between the Stage, the Screen, & the Eye. Misinformed by the history of stage, parlor, & close-up magic, Brud is pre-occupied by the psychology of tricks, gimmicks, apparitions, illusions, scams, & cons. The goal of Brud is to replace Brud with better Brud.

Brud are led by Benevolent Dictator For Life, Aditya Mandayam.