2HB Volume 18 Launch and performance with Tyler Coburn

Join us for a few drinks and a short performative reading to celebrate the launch of 2HB Volume 18 – Robots Building Robots by New York Artist Tyler Coburn.

Robots Building Robots meditates on the “lights out” factory, so-named for the lack of need for regular, human supervision. The book takes form as a travelogue of improvised performances, which Coburn conducted at a science park in Southern Taiwan; rumour has it that a robotics company is presently building one such facility on site. During a long walk through the park’s grounds, the author considers literary and philosophical speculations on labour, machinic intelligence and the “automatic factory”: an enduring fiction gradually creeping into reality.

Now in its fifth year, 2HB is a quarterly publication dedicated to creative and experimental writing in contemporary art, edited by Ainslie Roddick, Jamie Kenyon and Francis McKee, with Louise Shelley as editor-at-large. The selection process focuses on creative writing or fiction with a critical awareness of issues. A journal for experimental art writing, 2HB facilitates a discursive space for writing in contemporary art practice and creates a platform for artists, writers and theorists to realise work that might not otherwise be published.

2HB volumes are available from CCA as well as through Motto Distribution, Berlin and Motto stores in Berlin, Zurich, Weils and Vancouver at £3 per issue. If you would like to purchase copies of previous editions contact the CCA Box office.